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Achieve Career Success with a Targeted Resume

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As a successful businessperson, you probably have an executive resume tucked away in your professional files. If you’ve spent your career navigating promotions and internal job changes, it’s also likely that you haven’t reassessed your personal branding in several years. An executive resume creates the foundation for personal marketing, professional networking, and career success. If you’re searching […]

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Mistakes Executives Make When Changing Careers

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The holidays aren’t simply a time of peace and goodwill, but a season of career unrest for many professionals. The end of the year leaves executives juggling busy schedules, personal stresses, and potential job loss due to downsizing. If you’re contemplating a new career for Christmas, make sure to avoid these 4 pitfalls of finding

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Take Advantage of Holiday Networking Opportunities

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For executives looking for fresh careers, the holiday season offers unique opportunities for growth and development. During the time between Christmas and the New Year, many CEOs, COOs, board members, and other executives take time off to recharge and reconnect with their loved ones. Stepping back to reengage with personal responsibilities is proven to increase

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How to Take Advantage of the Holiday Season to Find a New Career

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For many professionals, the holiday season whirls by in a flurry of meetings and deadlines. Many job seekers – operating under the assumption that searching for a job in November or December is ineffective at best – take advantage of the lull between Thanksgiving and New Year’s to recharge and refocus. These job seekers have

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Promoting Skills on LinkedIn

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Most job seekers, from CEOs and CMOs to entry-level workers, know the benefits of LinkedIn for online networking. But although most tech-savvy professionals utilize LinkedIn to build connections and seek fresh talent, few take advantage of everything this professional networking tool has to offer. The true benefit of online networking doesn’t lie in creating a

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Bridging the Executive Gender Gap

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Female executives are no strangers to the struggle for workplace equality and fair compensation. Although many Americans mistakenly believe gender inequality in the workplace to be a lingering problem from an unenlightened era, women in the corporate sphere struggle daily with questions of career and motherhood, the supposedly broken glass ceiling, and receiving disparate pay

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Navigating a Career Change

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It’s easy to get discouraged with an unsatisfactory career. Corporate ennui, difficulty enacting change, or disinterest in company culture drains passion from the job. Working in the C-suite also takes workplace strife to another level, turning disagreements between coworkers into stalemates that render entire leadership teams ineffective. Female executives may face additional difficulties, from developing a workable

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3 Ways to Develop Your Personal Brand

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Many executives lack the time, the skills, or the patience to develop a compelling and concise personal brand. Here are 3 guidelines for personal branding success from the high level career builders at Executive Resumes Atlanta. Develop authenticity. In unskilled hands, executive self-promotion can come across as shortsighted braggadocio or a carefully crafted falsehood. The advent of

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Find a New Career without Getting Fired

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No one envies the frustrating and often disheartening task of making job hunting your career, but finding new opportunities when you’re already employed comes with its own set of complications. Whether you’re stuck in a job you hate or you’re simply suffering career ennui, it’s challenging to find a new job without burning bridges. Find

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How to Improve Marketability

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Applying for an executive position isn’t simply a matter of casting your skills and successes in a positive light. Past victories are relevant to future output, but for corporate board members and executive recruiters, an interesting, professional resume is only part of the picture. The key to landing a coveted position is convincing employers that you

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