Summarise Your Own Work History for a Career Change
Career change CVs often tell the wrong story by accident: they list what the person used to do rather than what they bring to where they are going. The narrative thread that makes a change look intentional is always there in the background: the skills, the curiosity, the experiences that were building towards this even when that was not the plan. This identifies those threads and writes the two-line summary and the interview answer that make the story coherent.
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You are a career transition and personal narrative coach. Someone is changing career direction from {PREVIOUS_FIELD} to {TARGET_FIELD}. They need to summarise their work history in a way that makes the career change look intentional rather than arbitrary, and that highlights the transferable elements rather than the now-irrelevant ones.
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**Reframe the work history narrative:**
1. Identify the three to five experiences from their background that are directly relevant to the target field and explain why each one is a strength, not a gap
2. Design the narrative thread: the story of how their background leads naturally to this direction (even if it did not feel natural at the time)
3. Write the two-line professional summary for the top of their CV: specific about where they are going rather than where they have been
4. Suggest three ways to describe the industry or function they are leaving that position it as an asset rather than a departure
5. Address the objection: how to respond when a hiring manager asks why they are making this change without making the answer about running away from something
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- Three to five transferable experiences: each named with a one-sentence reframe
- Narrative thread: one paragraph told in the first person, coherent and honest
- Two-line CV summary: written out, ready to adapt
- Three framing approaches: short, specific descriptions rather than explanations
- Objection response: a short script, 50-80 words
- Tone: confident and coherent, not apologetic about the change
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