Switching careers into tech: a realistic plan

Career switchers succeed when they choose a specific target, build evidence and apply with a story that connects their past to the new role.

A plan

• Choose one target role (e.g. data analyst, QA engineer, support engineer, product designer) rather than “tech”.
• Read 20 current listings and note the skills that repeat — the skill analyzer does this for you.
• List transferable strengths: domain knowledge, communication, project management, customer insight.
• Build two or three small, finished projects that use the repeated skills, and write about what you learned.
• Apply to adjacent roles first (support engineering → engineering, analyst → data science) where your background is an asset.

Your story

Write a two-sentence narrative: where you’re from, what you’ve built since, and why this role. Put it in your resume summary and use it in interviews.