| Executive Job Search Tips - How To Prepare An Executive Level Job Resume |
| Written by Jason Lee |
| Tuesday, 29 December 2009 08:15 |
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Designing of the resume doesn't mean that you get a job. A resume can't make you qualified if you are not up to the mark .A resume won't open up doors or knock down obstacle in your path. Executive resume's are much longer (two or even three pages is the norm) if we compare it with entry level or mid level resume. Everything in the resume should support a specific career target. Resume should present a sharp, focused, cohesive picture of the person that who he is and why he is valuable.
Designing of the resume doesn't mean that you get a job. A resume can't make you qualified if you are not up to the mark .A resume won't open up doors or knock down obstacle in your path. Executive resume's are much longer (two or even three pages is the norm) if we compare it with entry level or mid level resume. Everything in the resume should support a specific career target. Resume should present a sharp, focused, cohesive picture of the person that who he is and why he is valuable. 1. Start your resume with a summary rather than an objective, it should highlight your strongest selling point or say your USP. It would enable a reader to consider you as asset. The main point to note here is that through this you should be able to convey the type of profile you are searching for and your major career contribution. 2 Display your work history chronologically. Your resume won't do any good to you if your career history in your resume is not arranged chronologically. It becomes easy for all executives to go through a reverse chronological format after a powerful introductory summary. Also don't forget to include details like job titles, employers and date of employment, even if you want to display some recent work experience. Else your chances of getting eliminated become pretty high. 3 Your Resume should be more about that what you did instead what were your duties in the job. Rather than describing your scope of responsibility describe your achievements and contribution. Things you did to improve the revenue, profitability, productivity, customer satisfaction or contribution to other business objective. As an Executive it is better to be focus on strategic contribution rather than administrative task. By doing all this things be sure that you are communicating the big picture in your resume. Employers are pretty intelligent; they can make assumptions based on the job titles. 4 Your impact will be more if you highlight your contributions in a context or as a specific challenge. Instead of writing that you have increased the revenue by 23 percent you should write that you reversed the downward revenue trend by focusing business development efforts in niche markets. And then you achieved the profitability for the first time since 2002. Use of the bullets and indentations make the information easy to absorb. Never make mistakes of spellings, punctuations or grammatical errors . About the Author: JobConcierge offers executive jobs - real people search 300 job boards & submit apps. The site is known for best niche job boards and best executive search firms |
| Last Updated on Tuesday, 29 December 2009 08:55 |