I've been in the same industry for 20+ years and looking to get out of it. Although I have a significant amount of transferable skills, I'm unfortunately in an industry that has a horrible stigma that follows me to every interview. Any advice?

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It’s all about how you frame your experience, I came from warehousing and managed to tell the story to fit my current role

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What’s the industry? Difficult to give advice without that insight.

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Security.

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Your pigeon hold. Unless you know someone or you get lucky or you don’t mind starting over, you’re stuck.

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It happens a lot sadly. You just go to keep trying maybe change up your cover letter and CV. Maybe even see a recruitment consultant and ask them for advice on how you can sell your transferable skills and knowledge. Good luck.

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