Have you taken a career break and you're now ready to re-enter the workforce, but not sure how to navigate it all? Many people take a career break, for various reasons: Whatever your circumstances, getting back out there and landing a job could be more difficult for you than it is for …
Executive Networking
Deftly Track and Organize Your Executive Job Search
With so much going on, you need to organize your executive job search and track progress. The last thing you need is to waste time backtracking on details like which version of your resume you sent where, or what day you sent out the resumes. Having a system in place at the onset will keep …
The Lazy Executive Job Seeker
So you’re suddenly in an executive job search or planning one – by choice or because you were fired or laid off (or see layoffs looming). You may already be aware that things look different out there than they did the last time you were seeking a new opportunity. If you're just starting out …
5 Pivotal Executive Job Search FAQs
Over the years, I’ve kept track of the questions that job seekers ask me and I've written blog posts addressing the ones that come up all the time. Previously, I wrote posts covering executive job search FAQs in these areas: You'll see links to those posts at the end of this article. 5 FAQs …
LinkedIn Mistake: Neglecting LinkedIn Groups
Are you using LinkedIn Groups to build your personal brand and accelerate your executive job search? Let's say you've done the work to define your personal brand and you've built brand-reinforcing content to support your value to the employers you're targeting. And you've wisely built out your …
Game-changing Executive Resume FAQs
Putting together an executive resume is a daunting task. Even career professionals can find them challenging to write. Resumes are just one aspect of executive job search my clients have questions about. Over the years, I've kept track of some of their questions about the challenges they …
The Secret Weapon to Win at Executive Job Interviews
You think I’m going to tell you that the “secret weapon” is something like targeting . . . or personal branding . . . or proactive networking . . . or interview preparation . . . or even hiring a professional job search strategist. All of those are critical, but that’s not the secret weapon …
7 Questions To See If You’re Ready for Executive Job Search
I guess no one is really ready for executive job search until they’re forced into it. But I’ve found that many job seekers dive in before understanding how today’s executive job search works . . . causing missteps and possibly prolonging the search process in unproductive, anxiety-ridden …
Today’s Executive Job Search Toolkit
If you haven’t been actively looking for an executive job for several years, you need an executive job search toolkit for the new world of search. Otherwise, you may think that all you need to do to land a job these days is dust off your executive resume, insert any updates, post it to as many …
Don’t Play It Too Safe with Your Executive Resume
Are you like many other executive job seekers? You're afraid to veer too far from what you consider the norm with your executive resume, so you play it really safe? You think it's best not to rock the boat, so you stick with what you think are tried and true resume tactics. You want to do what …