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…

5 Things Every CXO Needs in their Executive Biography

5 Things Every CXO Needs in their Executive Biography

Unfortunately, there is one part of a CXO’s executive career marketing documents that sometimes gets overlooked: the executive biography. A CXO needs a branded and unified set of documents for an effective career transition, including a resume, cover letter/value proposition letter, LinkedIn profile, etc. Every piece of information must align with your current career goals…