Q: I am a very Senior (C-Suite) executive and I want to redo my resume. Should it be chronological or functional? What do you suggest?
A: As a senior executive, you have many options for creating a sophisticated resume.
Q: I am a very Senior (C-Suite) executive and I want to redo my resume. Should it be chronological or functional? What do you suggest?
A: As a senior executive, you have many options for creating a sophisticated resume.
Your immediate task is to have your peers and colleagues take a fresh look at you. They think they already “know” you. But, in all likelihood, there are many aspects of your leadership they have either forgotten or truly don’t know. Your work is to package yourself so they see all of your work, vision and potential in ways beneficial to the organization.
Have a trusted colleague hold a non-interview conversation with you, and let him or her give you feedback on your tone, pauses and vocabulary. This is the kind of input you need in order to best pace yourself and to modify your usual way of speaking just enough to make you appear even more self-assured, confident and knowledgeable than you do in casual conversation.
Because ethnicity/race/national origin raise sensitive issues, you do not need to open the door to unnecessary inquiry around topics of this nature.
A friend tells me I need to think about being employed oversees because the demand for professionals in other markets has been growing. But, frankly, I have not had much exposure to other cultures, I only speak English and have never lived abroad. What is your advice? How strongly should I consider my friend’s advice?