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 …
Personal Branding
Are Thank You Notes Important in Executive Job Search?
Thank you notes are too often overlooked by too many job seekers. These days people seem to pay less attention to good manners and etiquette throughout the job search process . . . Which makes these positive qualities an even more powerful asset to those who always display them. People with …
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 …
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 …
Hot Button Executive Job Search FAQs
Because today’s executive job search doesn’t look or work the way it did in the recent past, I advise executive job seekers to first learn about the new executive job search landscape, before diving in. To help you, I’ve compiled some Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) from my executive job …
Resume Trends from the Experts
Resume trends come and go, to accommodate the needs of recruiters, hiring professionals and others assessing candidates. But you'll never go wrong (now and probably forever) if you let the following strategy drive the content in your resume: You'll find more about today's resume writing in …
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 …
22 Things NOT To Put in Your Executive Resume
If you're like many executive job seekers, you’ve either never needed a resume to land a job, or you haven't updated your resume in several years. Consequently, you probably don't know how today’s power executive resume needs to look and read. Maybe you’ve tried writing or updating your resume …
Does Your Executive Resume Position You as the Best Hiring Choice?
Demonstrating your promise of value to your target employers is the mission of your executive resume (and other supporting materials). Note that, when I mention "resumes" here, I’m short-handing for all the content you create for job search documents and online profiles. That is, your LinkedIn …