Tips For Making A Great Executive Resume
It’s easier said than done to create a great resume when you’re under pressure to get it done. This is especially the case if you’ve had a long and complex career, and you’re unsure where your resume’s focus should be.
But, of course, ultimately there’s no excuse for having a subpar executive resume. Whether you’re stuck somewhere or just tuning up your executive resume, here are some tips to help you get the most out of the time you spend writing and perfecting it.
Define a Clear Target
One of the first things you want to do when organizing your executive resume is to define a clear target. You should know the mission of the company you’re applying with, as well as what would be expected of you in the position you want. This helps you prove that you’re the perfect person for the position.
Make Sure to Brand Yourself
At this point, you should be known for contributing something to your field. Whether you’re an expert in the world of communications, or can’t be stopped in the medical field, people should know you for your work. To prove that you’re a potentially valuable investment, you want to show this branding of yourself in your executive resume. You especially want to highlight attributes that show your ability to lead and attributes that make you unique and critical to an organization.
Include a Success Story or Two
Again, at your level, you should be known for having accomplished a lot. Your resume should show great successes and achievements in your field. Showing how you’d overcome various obstacles to achieve those successes can also be immensely impressive and beneficial to your chances of getting a job.
Leave Room for White Space
When writing an executive resume, it’s often difficult to find a balance between including the right amount of information and leaving enough white space so that BlackBerry email cruisers won’t be overwhelmed with information. Avoiding longer sentences and focusing on your word choice can result in a better balance for mobile devices, and will make an executive resume sound stronger if the statements are on topic and contain valuable information. Each sentence will be easy to read and valuable for employers.
Edit and Re-edit
There is absolutely no excuse for having misspelled words or grammatical errors in your resume at the executive level. If you’re not the best speller or grammar buff, you most definitely should have everyone you can think of edit your resume to avoid the embarrassment of being overlooked for something so elementary.
Avoid Too Many Pages
You may have a lot of information you’d like to include in your resume due to your extensive experience; however, as you know, managers are busy people with little time to read pages of accomplishments. So instead of writing five pages of details about yourself, try cutting it down to two pages and only including essential personal branding and marketing information.
Hopefully these tips (and your short breather) have helped to give you some focus as you write your executive resume. Now it’s time to write the best resume you’ve ever laid eyes on.
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