Career Pivot Skills Translator for Industry Switchers
Why This is an Opportunity
Career changers are one of the most underserved segments in job search tooling. Existing resume builders assume you're staying in your field. The core mechanic here is a curated mapping database: teaching 'managed a classroom of 30 students' translates to 'stakeholder management across diverse groups.' The app needs role-pair mappings with terminology translations, plus a form where users input their accomplishments and get reframed outputs. Seeded database of common career pivot paths plus text template logic. No AI required — pattern matching and curated phrase libraries.
Key Pain Points
- •Resume language that's impressive in one industry sounds irrelevant in another, leading to instant rejections
- •Career changers don't know the 'magic words' that hiring managers in their target field scan for
- •Existing resume tools optimize within an industry but have no cross-industry translation capability
- •Spending hours on LinkedIn studying profiles of people who made similar transitions to reverse-engineer their language
- •Career coaches specializing in transitions charge premium rates for what is essentially a terminology mapping exercise
Original Discovery
People changing careers — say from teaching to product management or military to tech — struggle to translate their existing experience into language that resonates with their target industry. They know they have transferable skills but can't articulate them in the right jargon. A web app where you select your current role/industry and target role/industry, input your key accomplishments, and get a translated version using the terminology, metrics, and framing conventions of the destination field would bridge this painful gap.
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