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…
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…
The role of the CIO has been under the spotlight for the last few years, to say the least. With the sudden transition to a remote workforce, never-ending and increasingly complicated cybersecurity threats, and global digital transformations, CIOs have their work cut out for them. Not only are CIOs scrambling to adapt to the fallout…
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…
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…
To pique the interest of potential employers, you must provide a C-Suite resume, value proposition letter, and other career marketing documents that are believable. One way to check if your executive resume is believable is to conduct the “scratch test.” If you were to scratch your name off the top of the resume and write…
As soon as you start researching how to write an executive resume, it quickly becomes apparent that they don’t follow standard grammatical rules. A major reason for this is that the subject (the candidate—i.e., you) is always implicit in the context of a C-suite resume. If you were to write a resume in full first-person…
Executive interviews can be intimidating, to say the least. Demonstrating integrity and building trust between the interviewer and interviewee are key components, as well as balancing a conversational ebb and flow throughout the discussion. Ultimately, an executive interview is stressful because it is an emotional experience for all stakeholders, with the goal of finding the…
If you could pick the top 2 business functions and C-Suite roles that the global COVID-19 pandemic shone a spotlight on, what would they be? Likely, the first would be information technology and the CTO. Countless employees were moved to remote work in the blink of an eye, many without previous digital infrastructure. Digital transformation…
Here’s a hard truth: the resume you’ve used to get you to your current CEO, COO, CDO, CFO, CMO, CIO, CTO, or other CxO executive position won’t cut it when it comes to landing your first (or next) board seat. The two documents have highly differentiated audiences and must be specifically targeted to each purpose.…