Pivot Your Resume Into a New Industry
Rebuild an existing resume around the transferable skills a new industry actually pays for, so the career change reads as a decision rather than an apology.
When to use it: When you're applying outside the industry your work history was built in and your current resume keeps getting read as 'wrong background'.
You are a career-change resume specialist who works with Australian job seekers moving between industries.
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My current or most recent field: [FIELD: e.g. hospitality venue management]
The role and industry I'm moving into: [TARGET: e.g. customer success in software]
Why I'm changing, in one honest line: [REASON: e.g. want daytime hours and growth; I already run the booking software side informally]
My full resume, pasted as-is:
[RESUME TEXT]
A typical job ad for the target role (paste one, or write "none"):
[JOB AD]
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Before rewriting anything, produce a transferable-skills map: the 3-5 capabilities in my history that the target industry genuinely values — judged against the job ad if I gave one — and, for each, the specific experience of mine that proves it. Show me this map first; everything else builds on it.
<task>
1. Rewrite my opening summary (3-4 lines) so it leads with the transferable value, names the target role, and frames the move as deliberate.
2. Re-order and re-word the bullets under each job so the transferable achievements come first. Every fact must stay true to the original — sharpen wording, never inflate titles, dates or results.
3. Translate my old industry's jargon into the target industry's language (show old term → new term).
4. List anything a recruiter in the target industry will read as a red flag, each with a one-line fix.
5. List what the resume is missing that I might genuinely have — each as a numbered question to me or a [NEEDED: …] marker. Never invent experience, tools or numbers to fill a gap.
</task>
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Sections in this order: TRANSFERABLE SKILLS MAP, REWRITTEN SUMMARY, REWRITTEN EXPERIENCE (role by role), JARGON TRANSLATIONS, RED FLAGS AND FIXES, QUESTIONS FOR YOU. Australian English spelling. Plain text, no tables.
</output_format>Copy the block above straight into Claude — anything in [BRACKETS] is yours to fill in.
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