Are you spending hours every day, posting your executive resume on job boards? If so, cut it out! Although job boards do serve a purpose, I hesitate suggesting you use them at all. In my experience, too many executive job seekers get sucked in once there, spending way too much time responding to …
Executive Resume, Biography & Cover Letter
4 Reasons You Can’t Write Your Own Executive Resume
Write your own executive resume? Some job seekers are convinced they can. It can't be THAT difficult. Other, wiser people understand that it really IS that difficult. They'll tell me upfront that they’re embarrassed by how bad their resume is, because they wrote it themselves. Many of them …
The Importance of Cover Letters: Experts Weigh In
The importance of cover letters continues to be debated among job search experts and job seekers alike. We question whether they have any impact at all . . . or whether they are even read. First a little history. According to Stephen Lurie in an article in The Atlantic: "Leonardo da Vinci …
7 Tips 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 opportunities that may even remotely be a good fit for them. The problem with this approach is that, when you’re writing your personal marketing …
ATS and the Executive Resume Black Hole – What You May Not Know
When I speak with my clients for the first time, and we discuss crafting and strategizing their LinkedIn profile and resume, most of them don’t know about Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and the executive resume black hole. ATS were developed to deal with the overwhelming number of resumes …
