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Career Change Resume

Writes a truthful resume for switching professions, mapping transferable experience without inflating it.

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Repository
reactive-resume/reactive-resume
Stars
45,192
Licence
MIT
Files
1 file

What it does

When installed, the agent helps someone moving into a new job or industry (including military-to-civilian moves and returning to work after a break) build a resume that shows how their past experience transfers. It maps each target requirement to real past actions, separates direct, adjacent, and missing experience, and keeps past job titles and dates accurate. It refuses to invent or inflate claims and returns a bridge table, a copy-ready resume draft, and the key gaps to close.

Great for

  • Teachers, nurses, or tradespeople moving into corporate or tech roles
  • Military veterans translating service duties into civilian resume language
  • People returning to work after a career break who want a neutral break label
  • Job seekers who need an honest explanation of what their experience does and does not prove

Skip it if

  • Tailoring an already-finished resume to one job posting, since the separate resume-tailor skill is designed for that (the skill itself points there)
  • Anyone wanting fabricated or inflated achievements, because the skill declines these requests by design
  • Fields requiring licences or legal authority the user does not hold, since the skill will flag these as limits rather than claim them

Try asking

  • “I'm a teacher wanting to move into corporate training. Here are my lesson-planning duties; build a career change resume.”
  • “I'm leaving the army for civilian project management. Translate my duties into plain civilian language and keep my rank accurate.”
  • “I took a three-year break to care for family and want to return to accounting. Write a resume with a neutral career-break label.”
  • “Show me the gaps between my nursing experience and a clinical informatics role, and draft a bridge summary.”
Step-by-step guide: how to use Career Change ResumeInstall, first run, examples, tips and FAQs

Install in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Download the skill

    The ZIP contains the 1 original files, the MIT licence and an attribution note.

    career-change-resume.zip
  2. 2

    Add it to your agent

    Claude Code (all projects)

    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && unzip career-change-resume.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/

    Claude Code / Agent SDK (this project only)

    mkdir -p .claude/skills && unzip career-change-resume.zip -d .claude/skills/

    Claude apps (web/desktop): Settings → Capabilities → Skills → Upload skill, and choose the ZIP.

  3. 3

    Ask for the task

    No special command needed — the agent reads the skill's description and loads it when your request matches. Try one of the prompts above.

Get better results

  • Supply concrete facts (duties, dates, numbers you actually have); the skill will ask questions rather than guess.
  • Paste the target job posting so the agent can use its wording where it describes the same activity.
  • Keep your master resume unchanged; review every draft before using it, and approve any edits before the agent changes connected files.

What's inside

  • SKILL.md

Redistributed unmodified from reactive-resume/reactive-resume under the MIT licence. The assessment was drafted with AI from the skill's files on 2026-11-02. Skills can instruct your agent to run code — read SKILL.md and any scripts before installing.