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 …
Executive Job Search
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 …
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 …
Employee Referrals: The Best Way to Land an Executive Job
When discussing executive job search strategy with my clients, I lay out the critical 3 initial steps that get the best results – targeting, research and personal branding. I explain that, by starting with targeting, they'll focus their job search and personal marketing efforts on specific …
5 Things You Probably Don’t Know About Today’s Executive Resumes and Job Search
If you’re looking for an executive job or considering changing your career direction, you’re thinking about executive resumes and job search. Maybe you’re writing your own resume, and doing some research to learn how to write your resume. A Google search on “resume writing” yielded about 750 …
Is Your Executive Resume an Interesting Read?
Let’s face it. An executive resume is typically pretty boring, because of the inherent constraints in terms of formatting, length and necessary content . . . or so it would seem. A resume usually starts with some kind of summary section that is a repository for lifeless relevant keywords and …
Executive Resume Length: One, Two, or Three Pages?
Do you fret about your executive resume length? Many executive job seekers have resumes that are 4 or 5, or even more pages. I typically advise keeping it to around 2-3 pages. Sometimes they ask me, How can I possibly distinguish my career and do myself justice in 2 measly pages. …
How to Stay Positive in Executive Job Search
Even in the best of times, job hunting can be daunting, challenging and stressful. It can wreak havoc on your emotional state and self-esteem. Is a positive executive job search experience even possible for most people? It's difficult to keep a positive mindset when you're job hunting because …