This is a great time to emphasize the parts of your job that you like that will carry over to your new position. If your dream tech job will include working with clients, and you’ve been working in retail, you could say that you’ve loved building relationships with your regular customers. Of if your new position will include a lot of data organization and reporting, you can talk about how you loved organizational tasks at your old job (even if they weren’t data organization).

Think about ways that general tasks from your last job could roughly translate into tasks you might have at your new job and go from there!