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 …
Executive Resume, Biography & Cover Letter
Executive Resume – LinkedIn Profile – Biography: What’s the Difference?
Your resume, LinkedIn profile and biography are the most important pieces of content in your job search arsenal. But many executive don't know how to write and use them in the best ways. These three pieces overlap in some regards, but are distinctly unique in other ways. Let's take a look …
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 …
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 …
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 …
7 Deadly Sins of Executive Resume Writing
Executive resume writing is complicated. If your resume isn’t doing its job landing you interviews, and you know it doesn’t present you well, it may need an intervention. Is your resume in such bad shape you can’t deny it any longer? Are you ashamed to use it, because it doesn’t really say …
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 …
The Best Kept Resume Writing Secret
I'll give you a hint. The best kept secret resume writing secret is NOT: Writing a resume is easy . . . anyone can do it. That's simply not true. If you've ever tried writing your own, you know that it's really hard to do. It's just as hard for us. Even seasoned resume writers …
Personal Branding or Executive Resume Writing: Which Comes First?
It may seem obvious that, when you're about to start a job search, resume writing or updating is step one. Personal branding and targeting are probably not on your mind. Or maybe you need to get your resume in order fast, and you don't have time to do the personal branding work. In my …