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Career Change resume example

A complete, ATS-friendly career change resume you can copy from: summary, experience bullets with real numbers and a skills line. The sample person is fictional; the wording works.

Jordan Ellis

jordan.ellis@email.com · (555) 014-2290 · Columbus, OH · linkedin.com/in/jordanellis

Summary

Former retail store manager moving into operations and project coordination. Eight years of leading teams, managing budgets and improving processes, now backed by a Google Project Management Certificate.

Experience

Career Change 2022 – Present
  • Managed a store team of 25 and a $4M annual sales budget.
  • Cut weekly scheduling time in half by building a shared staffing tracker.
  • Led the store remodel project, coordinating 5 vendors on time and on budget.
Career Change 2019 – 2022
  • Improved inventory accuracy from 92% to 99% with a new counting process.
  • Trained 3 assistant managers who were promoted to run their own stores.
  • Completed the Google Project Management Certificate in 2025.

Skills

Project coordination · Team leadership · Budget management · Process improvement · Vendor coordination · Scheduling · Excel · Asana · Training · Customer focus

Education

Degree or certificate relevant to the role 2019
Recruiter's noteFor a career change, lead the summary with the role you want, then translate past results into the language of the new field.

How to write a career change summary

Three lines are enough: your title and years of experience, the one result you are proudest of, and what kind of work you want next. Write it last, after the bullets, so you can pull the strongest number into it.

Bullets that get past the scan

Start each bullet with a verb, keep it to one line or two, and end with a number: money, time, volume or percentage. Copy key words from the job posting exactly. An ATS matches words, so "Epic EHR" and "electronic health records" can count as different skills.

Format that the software reads

Use one column, standard headings (Summary, Experience, Skills, Education), your contact details in the body of the page and a common font. Export a PDF from Word or Google Docs so the text stays selectable. Every Halden template is built this way.

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