Career changes are scary enough without adding all the hassles that writing your resume in a manner that will clearly present your skills to interviewers in your new chosen line of work can entail.  To present yourself and your credentials in the most useful manner, before you start writing your resume, sit down and make a list of all the skills your current job requires you to have.

Then look at how you have used these skills in your present line of work, compared to how you would use them in the new career you desire. Some skills will not be transferable without re-framing them; so as you move through this process, it will become clear to you which skills these are.

Even if you think at first that a skill will not transfer at all, take another look at it and extract from it those qualities that any employer likes to see: diligence, perseverance, administrative and other skills will always stand you in good stead!

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