
Resumes
How to write a resume when you're changing careers
Changing careers? Lead with the skills that carry over, show recent steps into the new field and cut detail that only matters in your old one.
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Simple guides to old family photos, life stories, memorial pages, resumes and personal websites.

Changing careers? Lead with the skills that carry over, show recent steps into the new field and cut detail that only matters in your old one.

Most resumes get a quick first look. These common mistakes make that look end early, and each one takes only a few minutes to fix.

In the US a resume is short and a CV is long and academic. In Europe, CV usually just means resume. Here is what each one means and which one to send.

Sending the same resume everywhere is easy, but a version shaped around each job gets read more closely. Here is how to tailor a resume in about twenty minutes.