You now know how to translate your background.
Your previous career gave you valuable skills. Don't undersell them.
Each background has unique strengths: Teachers communicate, military brings discipline, business understands customers, healthcare brings precision.
Use tech-adjacent language: stakeholders, systems, requirements, metrics.
Build your translation dictionary: + accomplishments rewritten for tech contexts.
These translations will power your resume, LinkedIn, and interview answers. Next, you'll learn how to answer the questions that trip up every career changer.