Now that you’ve defined your personal brand and built your executive resume around your promise of value to your target employers, you’re ready to get your resume out there. So you're facing the cover letter dilemma. Do you still need a resume cover letter? Or is it a dying relic? When you …
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Dealing with Employment Gaps: Is Volunteer Work Really a Job?
I wrote a resume and LinkedIn profile for a Chief Financial Officer who was a powerhouse finance management executive across multiple industries – Healthcare, Finance, Publishing, Telecom, Information Services, Technology. Initially, he characterized himself as unemployed for the previous 7 …
9 Things To Do Right Now To Get Your Executive Job Search on Track
You may be very, very lucky. You may land the executive job of your dreams without having to suffer through a stressful job search. But if you're like most executives, that's not happening. You'll need to dive into the work required to set yourself up to job search well. Here's your road …
Does LinkedIn Make the Executive Resume Obsolete?
With the popularity and power of LinkedIn, and the undeniable necessity of having a presence there when you're job hunting, some people claim that the executive resume is dead, or dying. . . . that it’s no longer needed, or valuable. . . . that a robust, fully populated LinkedIn profile is, in …
Game-changing Executive Resume FAQs
Putting together an executive resume is a daunting task. Even career professionals can find them challenging to write. Over the years, I've kept track of some of my clients questions about resumes (and cover letters and bios). These are the executive resume FAQs job seekers ask me the most: 1. My …