Step back to go forward
Career transitions often feel chaotic because people approach them like a speed competition: rewrite, repost, repeat. Yet hiring managers aren’t looking for velocity.
To get it right, step back and take a holistic look at your work history: detail and organize it into coherent blocks to use in interviews and social posts, plus on resumes and cover letters. This is important because along with skills, hiring managers are looking for judgement, discernment, and problem-solving.
Here’s what recruiters want to see:
Strengths and how you frame them
Patterns that you choose to highlight
Context you provide about a company or project
Decisions you emphasize as important
Story you choose to tell about your career
Try to hit those points, plus take it a step deeper by showcasing your abilities that can’t be replicated by AI. Showcase examples of how you:
Listen actively to all parties customers, leadership, and shareholders
Express empathy for customers and colleagues
Receive feedback and integrate it your attitude, approach, and deliverables
Give feedback—great if you can show how to do this with leadership, junior employees, and peers
Resolve disagreements and conflicts effectively about objectives, strategy, and approach
Take accountability when output doesn’t match expectations or requirements
As AI shifts the career landscape, most people will try to keep up with the acceleration and everyone’s profile and resume will continue to blend together.
The ones who stand out will be the ones who step out of that race. Start now to be ahead of the masses with a different strategy. Focus on:
Interpretation, not imitation
Structure, not speed
Clarity, not volume
Telling the story only you can tell
That’s the advantage we humans still have.
Ready to rebuild your story?
