For the Career Changer

You don’t have to portray yourself as something you’re not (you’re not going to fool anyone, anyway). If you are, for example, a consumer products marketing executive trying to move into the nonprofit world, I always recommend that you a format with a professional summary and a breakout of your core skills. Create a summary that is less industry-specific and make certain that you list skills that are more specific to the industry (i.e. client relations = donor relations)