Coming soon. The full guide is being written. In the meantime, the Graduate, Early-career, Mid-career, and Senior guides cover the universal principles, and the app below can build a CV with you in a chat right now.

Who this guide will be for

You're switching: industry, function, or both. Maybe you're moving from law into product, from teaching into tech, or from agency into client-side. The challenge isn't a lack of experience, it's translating the experience you have into language the new field will recognise.

What it will cover

  • Re-framing transferable skills without falling into "transferable skills" cliché.
  • Personal statement strategy when your job title hasn't matched the role you're applying to.
  • Whether to lead with a functional or chronological CV (almost always chronological, with caveats).
  • How to use a cover letter to do the heavy lifting the CV can't.
  • Side projects, courses, freelance work: when they earn their place and when they don't.

In the meantime, read Graduate CV, Early-career CV, Mid-career CV, or Senior CV.