Mary Elizabeth Bradford, CARW, MCD Certified Advanced Resume Writer, Expert Job Search Coach Author, speaker, Certified International Master Director and Nationally Certified Resume Writer, Mary Elizabeth Bradford is a career-services industry expert and is known as “The Career Artisan.” She has 13 years’ experience providing expert career coaching, marketing and branding for the mid to senior-level job seeker. Her resume/job-search coaching “packages” have helped professionals all over the world secure more interviews, get bigger offers and land the jobs they really wanted. Mary Elizabeth is the author of two guidebooks: "Secrets of the Unadvertised Job Market…Revealed!” and “Phone Networking Secrets Revealed.” She is the publisher of the bimonthly ezine, The Career Insider. Her guidebooks have been lauded by both clients and colleagues as “powerful,” “comprehensive” and “highly effective.” She has designed resumes for more than 450 professionals worldwide and completed more than 4700 hours of “virtual” coaching. Mary Elizabeth is a member of the highly esteemed Career Directors International and serves on their Innovation Committee. She also obtained her Certification as an Advanced Resume Writer and Master Career Director through CDI. She has been published in multiple Law and Business Journals throughout the US. Additionally, Mary Elizabeth is an alumnus of Leadership Orlando, past Board Member and Vice President of Membership for the Downtown Orlando Partnership and Junior Achievement volunteer. As a Special Events Committee Member for The House of Mercy in Nashville, she created their first Annual Benefit at Nashville’s Famous Bluebird Café. She served on the Disaster Relief Team for the Nashville Chapter of the American Red Cross.

Chief Human Resources Executive Resumes: 2023 Resume Trends

Chief Human Resources Executive Resumes: 2023 CHRO Resume Trends

Executive career transition best practices tell us to be proactive when updating Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) resumes rather than reactive. When an executive opportunity that piques your interest comes up, you will ideally have all your career marketing documents ready to go and not have to scramble to pull everything together. The wisest CHROs…

Leadership Tips for C-Suite & Board Executives: Best Things I Did to Enhance My Leadership Skills In 2022 – These May surprise You

Leadership Tips for C-Suite & Board Executives: Best Things I Did to Enhance My Leadership Skills In 2022, In Preparation for 2023 (These May Surprise You!)

I have strategized and drawn up my 2023 new year’s resolutions for the last three weeks. I take these very seriously—like a business plan. I look at each area of my life, and with rigorous honesty, I map out all areas, including family, physical, spiritual, mental, emotional, business, and finance. I also define the best…

5 Tips for an Effective Executive Career Transition

5 Tips for an Effective Executive Career Transition

As an executive-level leader, you have assumed a certain degree of risk throughout your career. You aren’t a stranger to the sometimes unexpected and dramatic changes that come along with reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, rapid growth phases, and powerful dynamics among executive teams and board members. Luckily, you’ve got decades of experience strategizing how to…

How to Target a Board Position: Why You Need a Separate Set of Board Documents

How to Target a Board Position: Why You Need a Separate Set of Board Documents

Targeting board director roles is a different ball game than targeting executive leadership roles. As such, you need an entirely different set of career marketing documents—or board documents—to set yourself up for success. In a previous article, we covered how a board document’s content differs from an executive resume. However, the term “board document” doesn’t…

An Executive/Board Director’s Guide to Re-Entering the Workforce

An Executive/Board Director’s Guide to Re-Entering the Workforce

It is becoming increasingly common for people to be out of the workforce for a year or more. Sometimes by choice and sometimes involuntary, there are several reasons why someone may step away from the workforce for a period, including caring for elders or children, returning to school, deciding to travel, or overcoming a personal…

6 Reasons to Incorporate a Website Into Your Executive Career Marketing Documents

6 Reasons to Incorporate a Website Into Your Executive Career Marketing Documents

What comes to mind when you hear “executive career marketing documents?” Likely, the first things you think of are an executive resume and a value proposition letter. If you think about it for another second or two, you may come up with a LinkedIn profile and executive bio. One of the least thought-of and underrated…

Executive Interviews: How to Know if It’s Not a Fit

Executive Interviews: How to Know if It’s Not a Fit

Whether you’ve recently participated in an executive interview or have one coming up, it’s important to keep a balanced perspective. Rather than a straight-up interrogation, it is a chance for both parties to evaluate the fit with the other. Executive interviews are a two-way street. Both the company and the candidate need to make an…