Executive Resumes & Career Transition Strategies

Fatal Mistakes NOT to Make on Your Executive Resume

Fatal Mistakes NOT to Make on Your Executive Resume

Recently the top HR executive at Google stated something that…

View All Posts, Career Management, Executive Job Search, Executive Resume WritingLaurie SmithJanuary 26, 2015Career Advice, Career Management, Executive Job Search, Executive Resume Writing, Executive Resumes

Start 2015 Out Right with the Power of LinkedIn Endorsements … And Something New This Year

Start 2015 Out Right with the Power of LinkedIn Endorsements … And Something New This Year

Everyone knows how effective product and service endorsements can be in building…

View All Posts, Career Management, Executive Job Search, Executive Networking, Job Change Etiquette, Online Identity, Online Job Search, LinkedInLaurie SmithJanuary 18, 2015Career Advice, Career Management, Executive Job Search, Executive Resume Writing, Executive Resumes, Linkedin, Online Networking

Dreaming of a New Job in 2015? Great Place to Work’s Top 25

Dreaming of a New Job in 2015? Great Place to Work’s Top 25

Have you begun polishing up your executive resume with your sights set…

View All Posts, Age Factor & Ageism, Career Management, Executive Job Search, Executive Resume Writing, Job Market TrendsLaurie SmithDecember 18, 2014Career Advice, Career Management, Executive Job Search, Executive Resume Writing, Executive Resumes

The Stealth Job Hunt and LinkedIn

Are you an executive on the job hunt, in stealth mode?

View All Posts, Career Management, Executive Job Search, Executive Networking, Job Change Etiquette, Online Identity, Online Job Search, LinkedInLaurie SmithDecember 5, 2014Career Advice, Career Management, Executive Job Search, Executive Resume Writing, Executive Resumes, Linkedin, Executive Networking, Online Networking

Executive Job Search and the Holidays

Think the holidays are the time to kick back in your job search? Think again…

View All Posts, Career Management, Executive Job Search, Job Market TrendsLaurie SmithNovember 21, 2014Career Advice, Career Management, Executive Job Search, Executive Resume Writing, Executive Resumes, Job Change

What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate: Job Seekers and Recruiters

What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate: Job Seekers and Recruiters

Social media guru Joshua Waldman featured a great infographic on his blog today…

View All Posts, Career Management, Executive Job Search, Interviewing, Job Change Etiquette, Job Market Trends, Recruiters and HRLaurie SmithOctober 30, 2014Career Advice, Career Management, Executive Job Search, Executive Resume Writing, Executive Resumes

A Few Quick Tips on Working with Recruiters

A Few Quick Tips on Working with Recruiters

Have you begun polishing up your executive resume with your sights set…

View All Posts, Career Management, Executive Job Search, Interviewing, Job Change Etiquette, Recruiters and HRLaurie SmithOctober 24, 2014Career Advice, Career Management, Executive Job Search, Executive Resume Writing, Executive Resumes, Interviewing Etiquette, Job Interviewing

Do I Still Even NEED an Executive Resume? Doesn’t my LinkedIn Profile Now Serve That Purpose?

Prognosticators have been predicting the demise of the resume for literally decades…

View All Posts, Career Management, Executive Job Search, Job Market Trends, Online Identity, Online Job Search, LinkedInLaurie SmithOctober 16, 2014Career Advice, Career Management, Executive Job Search, Executive Resume Writing, Executive Resumes, Linkedin

Gender Bias and Your Executive Resume

The Australia unit of global recruitment firm Hays recently put to the test the…

View All Posts, Age Factor & Ageism, Career Management, Executive Job Search, Executive Resume WritingLaurie SmithOctober 10, 2014Career Advice, Career Management, Executive Job Search, Executive Resume Writing, Executive Resumes

Some Surprising Things that Affect Employers’ Hiring Decisions

Some Surprising Things that Affect Employers’ Hiring Decisions

We all know plenty of do’s and don’t’s in the hiring process…

View All PostsLaurie SmithOctober 6, 2014Career Advice, Career Management, Executive Job Search, Executive Resume Writing, Executive Resumes

LinkedIn: What to Enter for “Current Position” When You’re Unemployed

LinkedIn: What to Enter for “Current Position” When You’re Unemployed

LinkedIn encourages users to always include a current position on the profile…

View All PostsLaurie SmithSeptember 23, 2014Career Advice, Career Management, Executive Job Search, Executive Resume Writing, Executive Resumes

Omitting Dates on Your LinkedIn Employment History

Omitting Dates on Your LinkedIn Employment History

Have you begun polishing up your executive resume with your sights set…

View All PostsLaurie SmithAugust 14, 2014Career Advice, Career Management, Executive Job Search, Executive Resume Writing, Executive Resumes