I've been re-watching the Food Network's Chopped, a cooking competition show. There are about 20 years worth of shows available. I'm almost done watching the entire series. At the beginning of each show, each of the 4 chef contestants introduces themselves, giving what amounts to a brief …
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Do I Really Need a Cover Letter for My Executive Resume?
Now that you’ve defined your personal brand and built your executive resume around your promise of value to your target employers, you’re ready to get your resume out there. So you're facing the cover letter dilemma. Do you still need a resume cover letter? Or is it a dying relic? When you …
Dealing with Employment Gaps: Is Volunteer Work Really a Job?
I wrote a resume and LinkedIn profile for a Chief Financial Officer who was a powerhouse finance management executive across multiple industries – Healthcare, Finance, Publishing, Telecom, Information Services, Technology. Initially, he characterized himself as unemployed for the previous 7 …
Executive Job Search Advice from the Experts
I always keep my eyes and ears open to the job search advice given by my colleagues in the careers industry. Job seekers should do the same. Because I've been in this industry for more than 25 years, I've had the opportunity to work with and learn from many smart people. Below you'll find the …
The Kitchen Sink Executive Resume
What is a kitchen sink resume? It's the place you dump ALL your career-related experience, skills, qualifications, achievements, metrics, areas of knowledge, areas of interest, etc. Everything about your career history − dating back to the beginning − goes into this resume. Your first …
How to Write Personal Brand Content for Executive Job Search
Personal branding for job search is a means to differentiate the good-fit qualities and value you offer your target employers over candidates competing against you. By creating personal brand content, you align your key areas of expertise, driving strengths, passions, and relevant personal …
Use Job Boards for Research … Not to Find Executive Jobs
Are you spending hours every day, posting your executive resume on job boards? If so, cut it out! Although job boards do serve a purpose, I hesitate suggesting you use them at all. In my experience, too many executive job seekers get sucked in once there, spending way too much time responding to …
ATS and the Executive Resume Black Hole – What You May Not Know
When I speak with my clients for the first time, and we discuss crafting and strategizing their LinkedIn profile and resume, most of them don’t know about Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and the executive resume black hole. ATS were developed to deal with the overwhelming number of resumes …
Serenity Now! Simplify Your Executive Job Search
Simplify executive job search? Is that even possible? It’s a given that job-hunting these days is a complicated process . . . more so than even a few years ago. And probably more so than the last time you looked for a job: The Internet and social media (especially LinkedIn) now play important …
Is Your Executive Resume Still Partying Like It’s 1999?
Has It Been Several Years Since You've Needed an Executive Resume? Many of my c-suite and senior-level clients don't have a modern executive resume, or any resume at all. They haven’t needed an executive resume for many years, if ever. They’ve advanced through the ranks at a few companies, …