Katharine Hansen - Top Notch Executive Resumes: Creating Flawless Resumes for Managers, Executives, and CEOs

Creating Flawless Resumes for Managers, Executives, and CEOs

By

Katharine Hansen, PhD

Copyright 2008 by Katharine Hansen

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All sample resumes in this book are fictionalized. Some research for the book was conducted via a survey of hiring decision-makers. Comments from survey participants are included with their permission.

TOP NOTCH EXECUTIVE RESUMES

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hansen, Katharine.

Top notch executive resumes : creating flawless resumes for managers, executives, and CEOs / by Katharine Hansen.

p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN 978-1-56414-989-3

1. Rsums (Employment) 2. ExecutivesEmployment. I. Title.

HF5383.H284 2008

650.142dc22

2007052893

I thank Michael Pye of Career Press for giving me this project and agent Marilyn Allen for facilitating. Thanks to leadership of the Career Management Alliance, especially Liz Sumner, Wendy Enelow, and Deb Dib, for their invaluable assistance, and to the Alliance members who submitted samples for

Introduction:
The Executive Difference

Chapter One:
FABUKA: The Most Important Aspects of the Executive Resume

Chapter Two:
Nuts and Bolts: Everything You Need to Know to Construct Your Resume

Chapter Three
Branded Career-Marketing Communication Tools to Enhance Your Resume

Chapter Four
The Opinions That Count: Resume Preferences and Peeves From Hiring Decision-Makers

Chapter Five
Your Resume and Executive Recruiters

Chapter Six
Case Studies

Chapter Seven
Resume and Cover Letter Samples for Aspiring Executives

Resumes and Cover Letters for Executives in Sales, Marketing, Business Development, and Public Relations

Resumes and Cover Letters for Executives in Management, Human Resources, and Project Management

Resumes and Cover Letters for Operations Executives

Resumes and Cover Letters for Executives in Engineering, Science, and Information Technology

More Resumes and Cover Letters for Executives

If the next step in your career is an executive, senior-level, or C-level position, this book will show you how to craft a resume that befits that upward mobility.

The next position you seek may be:

Chief Executive Officer

Chief Financial Officer

Chief Information Officer

Chief Marketing Officer

Chief Operations Officer

Customer Service Manager

Director of Operations

Director of Sales

District Manager

Division Manager/Director

Executive Director

Executive Sales Manager

Executive VP

First VP

General Manager

Human Resources Director

Information Systems Director

Logistics Manager

MIS Director

National Sales Manager

Operations Manager

President

Production Manager

Regional Manager

Second VP

Security Director

Senior VP

Telecommunications Director

VP, Business Development

VP, Finance

VP, Manufacturing

VP, Marketing

VP, Operations

VP, Production

If youve reached this prestigious level, chances are good that you are a mature job-seeker whose resume may have its roots in a time when resumes were very different from todays career-marketing documents. Your resume may have served you well in the past, but now you may find that it isnt working for you. Resumes have evolved, largely driven by technology, far beyond the what-I-did-and-where-and-when-I-did-it format of old. Today, resumes are keyword-driven and accomplishments-driven, especially at executive levels. The writing must be sharp, powerful, hard-hitting, and targeted.