You sit down to put your resume together and ponder what should go in, and what should NOT go in. The last thing you want to do is make a major resume writing mistake, right? You want to make an excellent first impression. You want your email inbox to be flooded with requests for …
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Find the Best LinkedIn Profile and Executive Resume Writer For You, Part 3
Read on to learn what questions to ask when you're looking for a professional resume writer to work with, and/or personal branding and job search strategist. 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 …
Best Executive Resume Writing Tips and Strategies
Are you convinced you can write the best executive resume possible? Maybe you can. If you’ve been in on the hiring process at your company for some time, and have been in a position to review resumes of candidates, you may have a good handle on what should and shouldn’t be in a resume . . . …
2 More Favorite Insider Tips for Executive Resume Writing
With more than 20 years of executive resume writing experience, I've learned plenty about best practices. And I've innovated strategies to help my clients stand out above the competition. Collaborating with executive job seekers, I've helped them define their personal brand and create their …
Toxic Job Search Belief: Executive Resume Targeting is Not For Me
Why You Should Care About Executive Resume Targeting You're deep into executive job search or about to dive into one. Resume targeting may be the last thing on your mind . . . or it may never have occurred to you. If you think you don't need executive resume targeting, I want to set you …
2 of My Favorite Insider Tips for Executive Resume Writing
Let's establish a few first-step givens in executive job search that you need to do, before you even thinking about executive resume writing. Start with: Targeting and research − so you'll know who you're writing for. That helps you know what skills and qualifications you have that you will be …
Think Like an Executive Resume Branding Pro – Write Your Executive Resume
Part 4 – Pulling it All Together to Write Your Personally Branded 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 …
Think Like an Executive Resume Branding Pro – Targeting & Research
Part 1 – Target Your Executive Resume for the Hidden Job Market Want to get inside the head of an executive resume branding professional, as she strategizes and creates content for an executive job seeker’s resume? That would help you write your own resume, or know with whom and how to work …
The Biggest Executive Job Search and Personal Branding Mistake
What's the first step when you're about to dive into a job search? Create your resume, or update your existing one, so you can hit the job boards hard right away? Nope. The biggest mistake too many job seekers make from the get-go is skipping over the critical first step – identifying target …
The Future of the Executive Resume According to Martin Yate
Last week, I posted the first part of a Q & A I had with my friend and colleague, Martin Yate (@KnockemDead on Twitter), job search expert and renowned writer of the Knock 'em Dead series of career and job search books. In that post, he answered my questions about the top two biggest mistakes …