Executive CV Services and Executive Resume Services
Executive CV Services for Senior Management Executives - Selling your "Sizzle"
Whether you are an existing or aspiring Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chief Operating Officer (COO) or Executive Director, your CV or Resume needs to reflect your depth of management experience, strategic and commercial acumen and a record of achievement that evidences your stature and credibility. It is equally as important to align your accomplishments and talents with the challenges facing the hiring organisation.
Headhunters, in particular, need to sell your sizzle - your major achievements - to get you in the door. How you construct your CV and evidence your achievements is a key weapon in your arsenal. In short, your CV is worth a serious investment of time and effort.
There are Common Problems with Executive CVs (Resumes) that Our CV Writers Regularly Encounter
From the many examples of Executive CVs and Resumes we see, the common failings are not striking the right balance within and across roles or conveying experience in a way that demonstrates breadth and depth in relevant areas. Executive CVs can be grouped as follows:
- The Scattergun CV: Executive CVs of this type show a pattern of trying to provide an extensive record of responsibility, skills and achievement to impress the reader. The philosophy is if I fire enough bullets, hopefully a few will hit the mark. Sadly, in many cases the hiring company has no clear idea where your strengths are and will have to hunt for it. But most will give up.
- The Activity CV: The format and style of these Executive CVs stress the activities involved in previous roles. Activities and job responsibilities are repeated across jobs, establishing a track record, but all the while forgetting to tell the reader what you achieved during all this activity. I.e., you fail to sell your sizzle and tell the reader what you can deliver for them.
- The Once upon a Time CV: These Executive CVs aim to include details of roles going back to the first job. Over the years, new items have been added to the CV without taking much away in an attempt to produce a complete record. The result is a CV of several pages that distracts the reader from what is most important and relevant in your experience. Your Executive CV is not designed to tell your life story - it is designed to tell the reader why they should at least talk to you
- The Middle Manager Executive CV: Quite simply, this Executive CV is not yet an Executive CV even though its author is already operating as a senior Executive. Often when a candidate has been in the same company for years or is not an expert writer, the CV lacks gravitas and underwhelms the reader. Key aspects of your career may be missing or weakly expressed. Overall, you are mistaken for a mid-senior manager, not an Executive with Board-level credentials.
Our CV writers have served Executives across the world, including the USA (New York, Texas), Italy, France, Switzerland, Norway, UAE (Dubai, Abu Dhabi), Spain, Poland, Ireland, Israel, India, Turkey and the UK. We have worked with Executive Directors for Strategy, Operations, HR, Sales and Marketing and IT Directors. Most clients come to us through word of mouth recommendation on account of our unparalleled quality, discretion and responsiveness. At Platinum, we genuinely put your needs first.