If you've read anything about executive job search best practices, you know that networking is the best way to land a great-fit gig. You also know that includes building your LinkedIn network and staying active there. What you may not know is how to actually do it: Who do you connect and …
Executive Networking
Adopt an Abundance Mentality To Land Your Next Great Executive Job
What is an abundance mentality and how can it impact your executive job search? First let's look at the opposite condition, a scarcity mentality. With a scarcity mentality, you focus on the thing or things you're lacking, which can be anything – money, friendship or love, time, or a rewarding …
Do Cover Letters Really Matter in Executive Job Search?
Opinions vary on whether or not cover letters matter. Do people even read them? Do you really need to use them in your job search? It's true that not everyone will read your cover letter. But just the fact that you've included one gives a good impression of you. Not sending one can make you …
20 Ways to Stay Motivated in Executive Job Search
Executive job search isn’t easy, especially at the c-level and senior executive level. For every job seeker, at any professional level, there’s so much to do ... so much to know ... so much to worry about. If you’ve been at it for a while, you may find yourself getting discouraged, and …
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 …