Connecting past experience when you change careers
Even without experience that applies directly to the new role, you can make a convincing case by finding and connecting skills that carry over from your previous work.
Start with the core tasks of the new role
Read several postings for the role you want and list the tasks and skills that keep appearing. Then find moments in your previous work where you did something of the same kind. Even when the industry vocabulary differs, actions such as defining problems, coordinating, analyzing and documenting can carry over.
Describe your experience in the new role's language
Internal terms from your previous company will be unfamiliar to readers in a new field. Explain the same experience using the terms the new role uses. However, do not invent work you did not actually do to fit the new role.
Show how you prepared for the change
Add experience you built for the new role on your own, such as courses, certification study or personal projects, as a separate block. If you have links to the results, include them so the reader can check for themselves.
State your direction in the summary at the top
If you explain in one or two sentences at the start of the resume what experience you are building on and which role you are moving towards, the reader will naturally understand why the rest of your experience is arranged the way it is.