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Practical guide
Changing careers doesn't mean erasing your background: it means translating it. How to present your experience for the job you're aiming for, and estimate what you'll earn there.
A recruiter reading the CV of someone changing careers asks just one question: will this person be able to do the job? Your CV must answer it from the very first lines, by showing that your background, however different, has already taught you the essentials.
You are not changing your past, you are changing your point of view. A shop assistant aiming for HR has recruited and trained seasonal staff; a developer aiming for sales has given demos to clients; a teacher aiming for adult training has designed programmes and led groups. Those are the threads to pull.
As your headline, the title of the job you are aiming for, not your old one. Then a profile of three to five lines that tells the story of the transition: what you have done, what you are aiming for, and why your background is an asset (“Ten years of customer relations in banking, now focused on selling software solutions to SMEs”).
For each previous job, keep two to four lines that illustrate these skills in the vocabulary of the new career, and cut the rest.
If your training or recent projects are closer to the target job than your experience, put them first (see the order of CV sections for your situation). Add a “Projects” section for what you have done on your own or during training. The CV keywords guide helps you pick up the vocabulary of job ads in your new field.
Your starting salary depends on how much of your experience the employer recognises. On our career-change page, say which job you are aiming for: the AI assesses how transferable your background is, and the site calculates your starting salary and how it grows over five and ten years using data from INSEE (France's national statistics office) for that job, then rewrites your CV for it. You can also look up the average salary for each profession.
No. The dates and employers stay, otherwise your career history looks full of holes. What changes is what you say about each job: the skills that are useful for the new career come first.
It reassures employers about the basics; concrete projects reassure them about the practice. Highlight both, and look in your previous job for situations close to the new one (a client to win over, a project to run, a team to train).
Not necessarily: part of your experience often counts. Our tool estimates it from how transferable your background is to the job you are aiming for, and calculates your starting salary and how it progresses using INSEE data.
The site's tools and features that go with this guide: the figures there are calculated by the code, never by the AI.