When developing your resume, write about transferrable skills diverse roles in your summary and experience sections. In both the resume and the interview, you might highlight projects or interdisciplinary collaborations where you adapted to change or learned new skills, showing your growth mindset and genuine interest in tackling new challenges.

Highlight the ways you have brought change and innovation to your long-time employer, which can be documented not only in your résumé, but also in your cover letter and LinkedIn profile. Thinking and writing about problems you have solved, projects you have managed, relationships you have built, and technologies you have learned/used will help you articulate them in more detail during interviews.

Highlight examples of continuous learning, adaptability, and contributions to change initiatives on your resume. Use phrases like “spearheaded sales process improvement” or “embraced Salesforce upgrades.” To prepare for interviews, use the CAR interview framework to share success stories of how you’ve adapted to new challenges, emphasizing your flexibility and eagerness to learn and grow.

Showcase continuous education, increasingly complex work responsibilities, and involvements beyond the workplace. Even if your employer doesn’t invest in you. Invest in yourself. Then feature these elements on your resume and when you’re asked to “tell me about yourself” in interviews.

Keeping a focus on continuous learning and being coachable will break down the perceptions that you are stuck in your ways or unable to adapt. Don’t just say it though, demonstrate it by taking new courses or certifications and volunteering for new assignments and showcase them on your resume and talk about them in an interview.