So, I have now stepped out of my comfort zone and have started the transition. What I am struggling with at the moment is how to translate my skills and experiences onto a paper. Yes, it is that resume and cv that is just starting at me on the other monitor. The blinking cursor taunting me as I ponder what to write.
What makes this difficult for me is my career has largely been defined in a more qualitative way and the paper is screaming for numbers; sales up 20%, cost savings of 15%, recruited 8 new employees, operational efficiency maximized by 12% and so on. As I work in the world of softer issues my skills have much more to do with culture, comfort, and adaptability than hard numbers favored by today’s job search algorithms.
I feel I bring much more to the table than just numbers. Now, how can I get that on paper?
I have been following this series of posts with some degree of sympathy and interest. I wish you the best of luck. I have completely changed career twice in the last few years. The first was to get into a profession I had thought I had a passion for, and the the second career-change was about 3 months after qualifying for that profession: It was not what I had signed up for, and not what the government desperately wants to deceive new recruits into thinking.
I would never ever have got any sort of job at all in my life, if I’d relied on recruitment agencies, algorithms, or psychological profiles. I don’t think a single large corporation would ever hire me, because I simply don’t fit into the procedure-driven corporate environment of statistics, tall vertical hierarchies, “departments” and policies.
Fortunately, I’ve always been able to find employment at small-medium sized firms, where the boss talks to you – and the decision to hire you is a combination of if they like you as a person, the technical competence they glean from talking to you, and your statistics on paper. It just takes a lot more time and effort to find such an opportunity – and secure it.
I don’t know how I’d even begin to put numbers on my CV!
Eagerly anticipating the next instalment… Hopefully it’ll be a positive and triumphant one!
Thanks for the support and related experience. All things help.
Describe how that could happen and what you have realized as fields in which that improvement could occur. Give it a detailed example of how interaction changed. A story one could understand and like to happen in his place. Just envision the places in your new company and what might have been of similar structure in your experiences. Make it a beautiful story about you, the human acting with others, and mention the small numbers just as a footnote.