7 Executive Resume Strategies

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To be competitive, your resume needs to communicate more than just your work history, job duties, and even key results of your efforts. At the executive level, hiring authorities want to know more than just “what” you did; they want to know “how” and “why” so they can better assess your fit within the organization and its goals. Compared to entry-level or mid-level resumes, executive resumes tend to be longer (two or even three pages is the norm), a bit more detailed, and emphasize strategic contributions. Everything in the resume should support a specific career target, and the entire document should present a sharp, focused, cohesive picture of who you are and why you’re valuable.

Consider these strategies for a powerful executive presentation of your capabilities.

1. Start with a summary rather than an objective. Objective statements on resumes are passé. Instead, begin with an overview of your strongest selling points — those things about you that will make a reader sit up and take notice. Make sure this summary clearly indicates the type and level of position you’re interested in, and be certain to include highlights of your career contributions.

2. Show your chronological work history. If you’re sending resumes to recruiters and responding to print or online ads, you’ll do yourself a huge disservice if your resume shows a confusing career history. Nearly all executives are best served by a traditional reverse-chronological format introduced by a powerful summary. Even if you’re trying to downplay some less-than-stellar recent experience in your work history, be certain to show job titles, employers and dates of employment. Otherwise, you risk being quickly eliminated in a flash.

3. Don’t write “job descriptions.” Your resume should be more about what you did than the duties of the job itself. Briefly describe your scope of responsibility, then highlight your achievements and contributions — things you did that improved revenue, profitability, productivity, customer satisfaction or contributed to other business objectives. As an executive, you should be more focused on strategic contributions than day-to-day administrative duties: Be sure you’re communicating the “big picture” in your resume. Keep in mind that resume readers are pretty intelligent. They can make assumptions based on job titles and general descriptions; they don’t need to have every task spelled out for them.

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