Resume trends come and go, to accommodate the needs of recruiters, hiring professionals and others assessing candidates. But you'll never go wrong (now and probably forever) if you let the following strategy drive the content in your resume: Decide which employers to target.Research specific …
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Stop Tweaking Your Old-Fashioned Executive Resume To Death!
It's time to update and revive your over-edited, old-fashioned executive resume. A modern, focused, targeted resume can make all the difference. When executives send me their resumes, so many of them feel the need to apologize for it. Over the years, they’ve edited the thing to death, and now …
The Kitchen Sink Executive Resume
What is a kitchen sink resume? It's the place you dump ALL your career-related experience, skills, qualifications, achievements, metrics, areas of knowledge, areas of interest, etc. Everything about your career history − dating back to the beginning − goes into this resume. Your first …
Worried About Age Discrimination? 9 Things on Your Executive Resume That Show Your Age
Several years ago I wrote the post 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 of …
The World’s Best Executive Resume Is Not Enough
Even the very best executive resume is not enough, if it isn't used with executive job search best practices . . . And, if you haven't backed it up with social proof. Occasionally, I'll see an executive resume created by the candidate that is an excellent career marketing document. They …