I’ve been an avid and frequent blogger on various job search topics since 2008, but I still never run out of things to write about, and I never tire of doing it. I can’t keep up with my ongoing list of posts to tackle within these areas of today's search: That list continues to grow, so I …
Personal Branding
9 Things To Do Right Now To Get Your Executive Job Search on Track
You may be very, very lucky. You may land the executive job of your dreams without having to suffer through a stressful job search. But if you're like most executives, that's not happening. You'll need to dive into the work required to set yourself up to job search well. If things have …
The Biggest Executive Resume Writing Mistake
You sit down to put your resume together and ponder what should go in, and what should NOT go in. The last thing you want to do is make a major resume writing mistake, right? You want to make an excellent first impression. You want your inbox to be flooded with requests for interviews. Do …
5 Reasons Your LinkedIn Profile Isn’t Working
Too many of the executive job seekers I speak with tell me that LinkedIn isn't doing much for them. When I take a look at their LinkedIn profiles, the reason is often immediately clear. They've made mistakes with their profile or they neglected to do some very important things with it. No …
Elevate Your Executive Resume From Bland to Branded
So many executive job seekers let ho-hum passive verbs describe their sometimes extraordinary accomplishments. Their resume brand suffers. They use wimpy words like "Responsible for" and "Managed" in their LinkedIn profiles and executive resumes. If your contributions have been high-impact and …
3 Surprising Ways LinkedIn Can Hurt Your Personal Brand
Most, if not all of us, will benefit from the personal brand-building power of LinkedIn, whether for job search, business or overall healthy career management. And it works extremely well. LinkedIn provides all kinds of personal branding opportunities to: But sometimes we make missteps …
What’s Wrong with Copying an Executive Resume Sample?
A client of mine told me in our initial call that he was so impressed with an executive resume sample on my website, he was tempted to copy some of it. He said that one or two of the opening brand bites described him to a tee. He wanted them in his resume. I explained why he shouldn’t and …
Think Like an Executive Resume Branding Pro – 10 Resume Do’s and Don’ts
Have you ever wondered how a professional executive resume writer knows what to include in their clients’ resumes, what to exclude, and how to position the right information . . . in the right ways? This 5-part series will help you understand how to create an interview-generating, …
How to Get Your Personal Brand Into Your LinkedIn Profile
Why is your LinkedIn profile so important in executive job search? In part because a great executive resume is not enough any more to land your next great gig. You'll need a strong, on-brand online presence so executive recruiters and hiring decision makers, searching for and assessing …
Think Like an Executive Resume Branding Pro – Write Your Executive Resume
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 …