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With the increasing trend of people exploring career switches it no surprise that sectors such as construction, finance, and retail are shrinking. According to Kris Dunn of The HR Capitalist cites a Newsweek study that says an emerging structural shift in the U.S. economy has led to shrinking sectors such as construction, finance, and retail. Kris says employees in these fields need to get the skills and training to move into the growing fields of education, accounting, health care, and government. For Job Search Advice, check out the JobConcierge Career Advice Blog

Casting a wide net in a job search improves the chance of success. These days, companies are actually more concerned with a candidate’s core skills and how those can be applied in their industry. Recruiters realize people from outside an industry bring new perspective and new ways to approach old problems.

A marketing manager for a manufacturer of airplane components can shift his skills to become a marketing manager for a medical supply company. The idea is moving from a slower industry to a faster one, riding on the same skills. Take your base skill – maybe it’s in accounting, computer technology, engineering or marketing – and re-tool it for a new industries. Here are three tips for saddling up and sitting tall as you contemplate a career change:

1. Always identify your core skills. The tried and true. But don’t overlook skills you’ve gained through volunteer work or life experiences. These may apply to your new career even better than they did your old one.2. Convince the potential employer that the skills you carry with you are transplantable and productive in his environment. Sell your skills, not your past. You’ll have to move beyond the basic resume. A bare list of past positions and responsibilities could read like an “I don’t fit here” memoir

3. ” Whether you change careers because you want to – you’re bored, you want a better salary, your mother-in-law moved in next door – or because you have to – your industry tanked, your current career is a mismatch, you feel stymied in your path – you can do it. Project confidence to seal the deal. Don’t appear desperate, with statements like “If I had known that technology would have made my career obsolete, I would have chosen differently.” Instead, project confidence: “I’m interested in being where the future is and I can tell it’s here. I want to be a part of your success.” If you’re looking to get started, the best place is the JobConcierge best recruiters and headhunters in each industry and the best industry job boards. You can find both at JobConcierge.com

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