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 …
Executive Job Interviews
Crucial Executive Job Interview FAQs
Executive job interviews can be stressful for many job seekers. The best way to alleviate that stress is by being well prepared, and as ready as possible for whatever they throw at you. This post is part of a series of posts that include the FAQs I most often get from my clients. Here are the …
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 …
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 …
31 Common Executive Job Interview Questions and How to Best Answer Them
If you're job-hunting and an executive job interview is looming, you've probably done some research on what kinds of questions you'll be asked. If you have no idea what you may be asked, and expect to nail interviews with zero preparation, you may be in for some very uncomfortable and awkward …
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 …
Nail Your Virtual Job Interviews – Things You Need To Know and Do Well
The past few years so many things in our work and personal lives have been shaken up and tested. For instance, virtual job interviews and remote work have become new normals. For many of us, our work and personal lives now intersect in ways we wouldn’t have imagined before the pandemic. With …
Guide to Executive Job Interviews: The How-To’s, Why’s and Best Practices
Whether you're in interviews now, or you've been reading about them or experienced the process in the past, you know how challenging it can be to ace job interviews. There's so much involved with nailing interviews – from preparing for them, to performing well in them, to following up, to landing …
My Executive Resume Is Too Long: What to Do About It
You're sure your executive resume is too long. It's more than 4 pages and you worked hard to cut it down to that. One of the problems many executives face when writing their resume is keeping it to a reasonable length, while still making it easy to read. Some make the mistake of cramming too …
How To Stay Sane and Curb Job Search Anxiety
No doubt about it, job search ranks right up there as one of the most challenging life transitions you may have to cope with . . . right along with divorce, having a baby and moving. Unless you're very lucky, your job search will have a fair amount of let-downs and rejections. And it will …