Has your anxious mind ever started racing with the stresses and heartaches of life, work and career? Or, have you been elevated by a sudden upturn in hope and opportunity that is quickly accompanied by the plummeting emotions of uncertainty and fear? Perhaps, you were soothed by the certainty of aspirations paired with the […]
Why Your Authentic Voice May Be Diminishing Your Executive Resume Story
Writing your resume in your voice may undermine your value Your authentic voice may be diminishing your executive resume story. It may be tempting to do so, but writing your resume how you naturally speak or write is not always good advice. This is because when everyone is trying so hard to be their authentic […]
Differentiating Resumes for Executives + Boards of Directors
Executive + Boards of Director Resumes Most executives and boards of directors began their careers as individual contributors crossing off daily to-dos while rushing forward to do more and be more. As your clout grew, you managed other people’s day-to-day accountabilities. Over time, you were promoted to the leadership helm, establishing and steering big-picture vision […]
How to Resuscitate Latent Details to Write an Exhilarating Executive Resume Story
An executive resume story and a picture share integral attributes. A picture gift I received during last year’s Sisters’ Weekend, reads: dear sister, i love you more than you’ll ever know But, it wasn’t until the day after our gathering that another layer of the picture revealed itself, embedded in the typewriter keys image: family […]
Executive Resume Story: Building the case for complexity in a keep-it-simple world
In Our Hustle Culture, We Are Pressed to Get to the Point Less-is-more advice is prevalent in almost every area of our lives these days. Career communications; aka, executive resumes, are not immune from this weathered recommendation. Whether crafting a resume, creating a cover letter, penning an elevator pitch or preparing interview responses, so many […]
How We Are Navigating Job and Life Change Amid a Pandemic
Sometimes in our lives, ambiguity reigns. Whether faced with the diagnosis of a potentially devastating medical illness, navigating job and life change, enduring the passing of a loved one, accepting a recently failed marriage, or responding to a global pandemic, how to keep moving forward, or even sideways–when our world about us seems to be […]
The fears we place onto our resumes
Here are the top-10 resume fears from which I beg careerists to release their grip: 1. Fear of a resume that is too long. Even recruiters know that 1-2 pages is no longer the ‘norm.’ Amy Miller, Senior Technical Recruiter at Amazon Lab126, asserts, “I haven’t thought about page length since the last time I […]
Why CEOs Hire Me: Writing Career Stories for the C-Suite
I serve CEOs every day by writing career stories for the C-suite. At CareerTrend, our primary focus is writing career stories for the C-Suite and Board-level executives. Executives hire me for the eloquent, deep processes we undergo. They know that I understand their vocabulary, respect their gravitas, and tailor their message. It’s not easy to […]
Rejuvenate Your Executive Resume Story for a 2020 Audience
As a new decade approaches, it is a good time to assess, and if need be, rejuvenate your executive resume story. Executive resume writing is not just about tightening up your career brain dump and interjecting the right keywords like ‘strategic leader’ or ‘shareholder value.’ It’s also not just about using power verbs like ‘transform’ […]
What end-of-year career goals are you working to meet?
I’ll go first — it’s actually a career goal I’ve been working on for most of 2019 that I want to continue to build on through the rest of 2019. Have you checked out my Instagram, Twitter, or LinkedIn lately? If you have, this will come as no surprise to you, but if you haven’t […]
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