Leverage your past work experience.  You can do this by leveraging skills, work experience and / or industry experience.

1. Emphasize your experience in a particular job or position
   • For example, if you have been a marketing manager, you want to look for marketing manager positions or positions for a director at a smaller organization that will promote you from the manager role.
2. Leverage skills you developed in past jobs
   • Emphasize the sets of key skills you have developed in past jobs
   • These can be interpersonal skills – i.e. sales attitude, organized, great with technology
   • They can be specific to your field – software used in graphic design, etc.
3. Leverage your industry experience
   • Leverage your knowledge of your industry
   • Showcase your experience in navigating where that industry is going and how you can contribute to that growth