The career-change resume: reframe, don't restart
You're not starting from zero — you're translating. The trick is speaking the new field's language about your old work.
Translate, don't discard
A teacher who ran data on student performance has analytics experience; a nurse who coordinated shifts has operations experience. Name the transferable work in the target field's words.
Lead with a framing summary
Two or three lines up top that say where you're headed and why your background is an asset. This is the one place a career changer should almost always keep a summary.
Surface the bridge projects
A side project, a course, a volunteer role in the new field does heavy lifting. It shows commitment and gives you real bullets in the target domain.
Reorder around relevance
Put the transferable strengths first and let the literal job titles sit below. resumania's tailoring rewrites your real experience toward the role you're actually aiming at.