If you're like a lot of people, you're using ChatGPT or other Artificial Intelligence platforms for many purposes. Maybe you have Alexa in your home and you ask it a barrage of questions and give it tasks throughout the day. Or maybe you're using using AI for things like this: And it's …
Executive Job Search
How to Build Your Executive Job Search Target Companies List
Many executive job seekers resist targeting select employers, because they don’t want to limit their search. They want to be open to any and all opportunities. Why job search targeting is so important Unfortunately, most executives start their job search by updating their resume and heading to …
Tips To Beat Age Discrimination in Executive Job Search
Along with things like employment gaps and lack of skills or other credentials, age discrimination is the major concern for most of the senior-level executives I work with. No surprise. Although ageism can kick in as early as age 40, it really starts making an impact at around age 50 and over, …
What and Who is an Executive?
"What and who is an executive?" may seem like an odd topic for me to write about. I mean, I know what an executive is. I’ve been working with executive job seekers for more than 25 years. But I find that there’s confusion on the part of some of them about whether or not they actually ARE …
16 Deadly Executive Job Search Mistakes
I see it all too often with my executive clients. They make too many job search mistakes, mostly because they don't understand how it all works today. Some of them have never needed a resume (or any career documents) to land jobs over their 30+ year careers. Some haven’t been faced …
Power Posing and Body Language in Job Interviews
You've spent considerable time researching the company you're about to have a job interview with. You're prepared to answer the tough questions and to ask the right questions of your own. But you may not know about another piece of the interview preparation puzzle that is equally important in …
No Summer Vacation From Executive Job Search
With the Memorial Day weekend in your rear view mirror and the July 4th holiday fast approaching, you may think it's a good idea to take a summer vacation from your job search. Think again. This is not the time to hit the brakes entirely. Maybe you were recently laid off and, besides dealing …
Worried About Age Discrimination? 9 Things on Your Executive Resume That Show Your Age
Several years ago I wrote the article Is Your Executive Resume Still Partying Like It’s 1999?, and then updated it more recently. Sadly, I'm still seeing executive 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 …
THE Personal Branding Worksheet
One of the first steps for a successful executive job search is defining your personal brand. My personal branding worksheet below will help you pinpoint the things about you that make you a good fit for the employers you want to work for. The other initial steps for successful job search …
7 LinkedIn Things You Should Do . . . But Probably Don’t
Whether you're using LinkedIn for executive job search . . . or career management . . . or building business, you should want to make it work optimally for you. I review lots of LinkedIn profiles every day, and see some things that still baffle me. People put things in their profiles that …