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…
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…
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…
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.…
The idea of emotional intelligence or emotional quotient (EQ) surfaced as a field of study in the 1990s* and has been gaining traction as a must-have executive leadership trait over the last 3 decades. While CXOs need to have incredible business and strategic acumen, the best CXOs can also readily identify and manage the emotions…
Not all CxO resumes are created equally. If you have ever been on the hiring side of the recruitment process, you have almost definitely experienced this firsthand. You may know a good resume when you see one, but do you know how to write one? Check your resume to make sure it *doesn’t* do or…
Your C-suite resume is top of mind when you embark on or are in the middle of an executive job transition, but what about after you’ve selected and begun your next opportunity? Does it end up out of sight and out of mind until your next change in employment? It’s easy to forget about your…
Whether you are a seasoned CEO or just embarking on your executive-level career, you have certain innate traits that combine into your unique leadership style. Humans are dynamic creatures, and chances are you will adopt and adapt different styles in different situations, environments, and for different individuals. There are many books and articles available to…