Restaurant general manager with 9 years in hospitality, moving into a data analyst role after earning the Google Data Analytics Certificate. Built a labor and sales dashboard that cut labor cost from 31% to 27% of sales at a $3.2M restaurant. Brings SQL, Excel and Tableau skills plus years of turning numbers into decisions with a team.
Experience
General Manager, Copper Kettle Kitchen and Bar (Nashville, TN)
Mar 2021 – Present
Run a 160-seat restaurant with $3.2M in annual sales and a staff of 45
Built a weekly labor and sales dashboard from Toast POS exports in Excel and Tableau, cutting labor cost from 31% to 27% of sales
Analyzed 18 months of menu data to cut 12 low-margin items, raising food margin by 3 points
Forecast weekly staffing from reservation and weather data, reducing overtime by 40%
Assistant Manager, Riverside Grill Group (Nashville, TN)
May 2017 – Feb 2021
Managed inventory of about $25,000 a month and cut food waste by 15% with weekly variance reports
Hired and trained 30 front-of-house staff
Projects
Nashville Restaurant Inspection Analysis
Cleaned 5 years of public inspection records in SQL and built a Tableau dashboard showing violation trends by neighborhood and cuisine.
Education
Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate, Self-paced online program (Sep 2025 – Mar 2026)
Bachelor of Science in Hospitality Management, Middle Tennessee Valley University (Aug 2012 – May 2016)
Skills
Data: SQL with BigQuery, Excel with pivot tables and Power Query, Tableau, R basics
Analysis: forecasting, variance analysis, KPI dashboards, data cleaning
Business: P&L management, team leadership, vendor negotiation
How to write a Career Change resume
A strong Career Change resume shows the skills you can prove from school, part-time work, volunteering, projects or an earlier career, and how they carry over to the role you want next. Put your most relevant recent role first and make every bullet show a result, not a duty.
Sections, in order
Summary
Education
Experience
Projects
Skills
Length: One page for most candidates; move to two only if every line is relevant.
Summary: Write two or three lines: your role, your strongest skills, and one result that proves them.
Skills to feature
Communication
Customer service
Teamwork
Time management
Microsoft Office and Google Workspace
Problem solving
Reliability and punctuality
Learning new tools quickly
Organization
Role-specific certifications
Example bullet points
Served about 120 customers a shift at a busy campus cafe and trained 4 new baristas on the POS system
Built a sales dashboard in Excel and Power BI as a certificate capstone, cutting a weekly report from 3 hours to 20 minutes
Kept the books for a 400-family school PTA during a career break, closing each year with a balanced audit
Tips from recruiters
Lead with the strongest evidence you have: put Education first if you are still in school, and a recent certificate or project first if you are changing careers.
List a career gap as one honest line with dates, then add volunteer, freelance or caregiving work and the courses you took during or after it.
Rewrite past duties in the language of the job you want, for example "handled cash and inventory" becomes "reconciled $8,000 in daily sales and ran weekly inventory counts".
Recommended templates
Classic (ATS-friendly): Jake's-style LaTeX classic: small caps and hairline rules
Ivy (ATS-friendly): Harvard-style Times layout with centered headings
Modern (ATS-friendly): Clean single column with accent headings and rules
Career Change resume FAQ
What should a Career Change resume include?
A Career Change resume should show the skills you can prove from school, part-time work, volunteering, projects or an earlier career, and how they carry over to the role you want next. Use these sections in this order: Summary, Education, Experience, Projects and Skills. Put your most relevant recent role first and make every bullet show a result, not a duty.
What is the best resume template for a Career Change?
Classic, Ivy and Modern work well for Career Change roles. They are single-column with standard headings, so applicant tracking systems (ATS) parse them reliably.
How long should a Career Change resume be?
One page for most candidates; move to two only if every line is relevant.
Which skills should a Career Change put on a resume?
Prioritize the skills named in the job posting. Common ones for Career Change roles are Communication, Customer service, Teamwork, Time management, Microsoft Office and Google Workspace and Problem solving.
How do I write strong Career Change resume bullet points?
Start with an action verb, say what you did, and end with a measurable result such as GPA or honors, customers served and hours volunteered. For example: "Served about 120 customers a shift at a busy campus cafe and trained 4 new baristas on the POS system."