What does your LinkedIn About section say about you? Does it evoke a "Meh", or does it scream "You need to hire me!"? Will it bore people, or attract them to you? Before I first speak with prospective clients, I take a look at their LinkedIn profiles. I want to determine whether or not …
Personal Branding
Personal Branding FAQs for Executive Job Search
When I speak with executive job seekers for the first time, we discuss the job search strategies they need to embrace. Personal branding is at the top of the list. Overall, we talk about the things they don’t know how to deal with . . . the things they don’t understand about executive job search, …
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 …
LinkedIn Mistake: No LinkedIn Profile Photo, or a Bad Photo Choice
When I first viewed the LinkedIn profile photo of a certain client (a CFO job seeker), I knew something was fishy. A dashing 30-something man was smiling at me with perfect teeth, perfect hair, and a perfectly chiseled face. But, based on his career history, I knew my client had to be around 50. …
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 …
5 Reasons Your Personal Brand Loves LinkedIn
Let’s establish right off the bat that building and communicating your personal brand is no longer optional in executive job search. Before you write or update your resume and dive into a job hunt, you need to identify what differentiates you from others competing for the same kinds of jobs, with …
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 …
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 …
10 Things You (Probably) Don’t Know About Personal Branding
Do you dismiss personal branding for your executive job search? Do you think defining your personal brand is a waste of time? Maybe that's because you think branding is all about self-promotion, and you don’t like to boast about yourself. You’re not alone. If you're like many executive …
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 …