Read on to learn what questions to ask when you're looking for a professional resume writer (and/or personal branding and job search strategist) to work with. Catch up with parts 1 and 2 of this 3-part series here: Part 1 – Where’s the Value? The Value in Working with a Certified Professional …
Executive Resume, Biography & Cover Letter
Find the Best LinkedIn Profile and Executive Resume Writer For You, Part 2
This 3-part series focuses on why most executives need to work with a professional to get the best resume possible for today's job search, and where and how to find one. Whether or not you choose me as that professional, these 3 articles will help you understand what to look for when you're …
Find the Best LinkedIn Profile and Executive Resume Writer For You, Part 1
This is the time of year when many executives think about career transition. Naturally, they'll want to work with the best executive resume writer possible. The feeling is that new jobs open up at the beginning of the year, so they'd better start getting their ducks in a row. There's some …
What’s Wrong with Copying an Executive Resume Sample?
A client of mine told me in our initial call that he was so impressed with an executive resume sample on my website, he was tempted to copy some of it. He said that one or two of the opening brand bites described him to a tee. He wanted them in his resume. I explained why he shouldn’t and …
Think Like an Executive Resume Branding Pro – 10 Resume Do’s and Don’ts
Have you ever wondered how a professional executive resume writer knows what to include in their clients’ resumes, what to exclude, and how to position the right information . . . in the right ways? This 5-part series will help you understand how to create an interview-generating, …
Think Like an Executive Resume Branding Pro – Write Your Executive Resume
If you’ve read the first 3 parts of this 5-part series, you should be well on your way with the information-mining process to create your executive resume. In Part 4 here, I’ll show you how to strategize all the information you’ve amassed, pare down and pull out the pieces that will most resonate …
5 Common (But Troubling) Executive Job Search Dilemmas
What kind of job search dilemmas are you facing? We all hit roadblocks sometimes that can keep us from moving forward and reaching our goals. In executive job search, there are many potential pitfalls that can sabotage or prolong the search. But, as in life, workarounds or viable solutions …
Think Like an Executive Resume Branding Pro – Define Your Personal Brand
Defining your personal brand and getting it into your executive resume and other job search personal marketing materials (LinkedIn profile, bio, cover letters, etc.) is no longer optional. To help you prepare to write a resume that will help you compete in today's job market — or to help you …
6 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, often many …
Think Like an Executive Resume Branding Pro – What Is Personal Branding … Really?
My mission in this 5-part series is to help you get inside the head of an executive resume branding strategist so, naturally, personal branding plays heavily into this series of posts. In Part 1, you learned about the first critical steps in writing your executive resume – targeting and research …