I'm currently a social worker. I want to switch careers and work in a bakery, mainly for the experience (because eventually I want to open my own bakery) but also because I love to bake. I have no professional baking experience. How should I tailor my resume? Everything I've done is related to social work. I have taken baking classes and have a baking certificate.
well i would put your classes and baking certificate towards the top because that is what the most related experiance is. but i would still but your social work on thier because it shows you have/ held a job, your are dependable and many other things. also, when you are dropping of your resume at place, make sure you bring pics of what you can do and tell them that you are willing to learn.
also, if you go to a search engine, and search for resumes, it will give you some examples that would help.
Hi praetorian2000,
I used to work in HR and now I have my own business (although it is not a bakery it is a restaurant) so I have seen a lot of resumes in my time.
I would do a very brief cover letter to go with your resume that explains you are looking to change careers, are keen and willing to learn and talks about your baking classes and certificate. If you have been baking at home for friends and family mention it since in the absence of work experience it is better than nothing and perhaps attach pictures to your actual resume rather than waiting to bring them with you to an interview (they might be what gets you an interview in the first place).
In your resume under your social work job be sure to mention the skills that apply to baking as well (eg. time mgt, multi-tasking, working as part of a team, communication skills etc).
Make sure you follow all the general resume rules:
a)Reverse Chronological order (most recent first) for work history including time periods spent at each employer at least month and year eg. Mar2005 - March2007(this is one of my bug bears with no time period I don't know if you worked there for a day or a year etc)
b)Clearly state your contact details on there (it sounds stupid but I have seen many a resume where the phone number is missing a digit or something that prevents me from contacting them) and make sure you can actually be contacted via those details if you don't get home until late do you have an answering machine or someone who can take a message for you? On my own personal resume I always used my name and contact details as a letterhead so its on every page - helps to reinforce my name in the employers head and makes it easier for them to find my details if they want to contact me (you can do this using MS word under headers and footers)
c)check for spelling
d) Have a couple of referees listed with their name and contact details and either their position (supervisor etc) so the employer has some frame of reference as to their relationship/interaction with you.
HTH, good luck
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