Mind The Gaps Of Your Career/Industry Change Job Search

You want to change careers/industries ... it could be from finance into marketing, from pharma into tech, from sales into IT.

Job searching to change career or industry is different than other types of job searches, with different problems to overcome.

When you want to change careers or industries, you present?gaps in skills and experience?to your new employer. There will be a learning curve, and more new job challenges than others who have current experience in your target function.

You'll face the same employer risk perception if you're trying to move to an entirely new job function/industry/product, or if you're trying to move back to a function or industry you worked in 10+ years ago: Can you do the job better than someone already in that job function or industry? Are you worth the risk?

To mitigate employer risk perception of?gaps?from career/industry change, you need to focus on a series of steps:

1. Understand:?Take an objective look at the gaps you present to employers. You can't plan how to mitigate risks that you don't face up to and understand them from the hiring manager's point of view.
2. Reduce:?Once you understand the gaps you present to an employer, you may be able to to reduce some of them. Think about what you have done in your prior career/industry that is similar to job criteria you see in your target career/industry.
3. Terminology:?When you describe similarities to your new career objective, think about how to rephrase using language common to your objective, rather than language from your past job function/industry.
4. Plan:?Recognize remaining gaps, and develop a concrete plan about how you'll close them. Communicate recognition and plans to close gaps on your resume and during interviews. Hiding your head in the sand won't work - neither will faking it until you make it.

Showing that you've thought about how to overcome?gap?risk demonstrates that you know what you're up against, you're mature enough to discuss it directly and you have clear plans to get up to speed fast.

Beyond minding your?gaps, there are many things you can do to make finding a job in a new career/industry less difficult, less stressful, and faster. How can you learn other ways to beat employer bias against career/industry changers by improving your?resume?and job search strategy?

I help people solve the most difficult job search problems, including getting past ATSs, ageism, remote positions, product/job function/career/industry/ geographic change, job search acceleration, unemployment, "bouncy" recent career path, job search turnaround, seeking raise/promotion, industry in decline/consolidation, long term gaps, family leave, or other of the most challenging job search issues.

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