If you’ve read the first 3 parts of this 5-part series, you should be well on your way with the information-mining process to create your executive resume. In Part 4 here, I’ll show you how to strategize all the information you’ve amassed, pare down and pull out the pieces that will most resonate …
Executive Resume, Biography & Cover Letter
5 Common (But Troubling) Executive Job Search Dilemmas
What kind of job search dilemmas are you facing? We all hit roadblocks sometimes that can keep us from moving forward and reaching our goals. In executive job search, there are many potential pitfalls that can sabotage or prolong the search. But, as in life, workarounds or viable solutions …
Think Like an Executive Resume Branding Pro – Define Your Personal Brand
Defining your personal brand and getting it into your executive resume and other job search personal marketing materials (LinkedIn profile, bio, cover letters, etc.) is no longer optional. To help you prepare to write a resume that will help you compete in today's job market — or to help you …
6 Reasons You Can’t Write Your Own Executive Resume
Write your own executive resume? Some job seekers are convinced they can. It can't be THAT difficult. Other, wiser people understand that it really IS that difficult. They'll tell me upfront that they’re embarrassed by how bad their resume is, because they wrote it themselves, often many …
Think Like an Executive Resume Branding Pro – What Is Personal Branding … Really?
My mission in this 5-part series is to help you get inside the head of an executive resume branding strategist so, naturally, personal branding plays heavily into this series of posts. In Part 1, you learned about the first critical steps in writing your executive resume – targeting and research …
30 Key Executive Job Search FAQs
I've written several posts about the FAQs my clients put to me most often when we're strategizing ways to accelerate their executive job search. In this post I've rounded them all up in one place, so you can jump off and quickly get my answers to the most pressing questions you may have about …
Think Like an Executive Resume Branding Pro – Targeting & Research
Want to get inside the head of an executive resume branding professional, as she strategizes and creates content for an executive job seeker’s resume? That would help you write your own resume or, even better for you, help you when you work with a professional resume writer, right? You’ll …
Experts Debate LinkedIn Profile vs. the Executive Resume
A few years ago I posted on LinkedIn about the LinkedIn profile vs. the executive resume, which highlighted my blog post, Does LinkedIn Make the Executive Resume Obsolete. I hoped the update would generate some conversation, while providing valuable information to executive job …
25 Tips To Write an Executive Resume for Today’s Job Search
Most executives don't know how to write an executive resume for today's job search. All too often I see resumes that look and read like the ones I was writing 15-20 years ago. If you’re sticking to a resume with the same look and kind of content you’ve been using for decades, you’re probably …
Is the Executive Resume Dead or Dying?
No, the executive resume is not dead, and it’s not likely to disappear entirely. But it's not as important as it was before LinkedIn came along. Back then, it was the only thing hiring professionals and others had to help them assess candidates. And it probably doesn’t look and read the way it …