If you are ready to make an executive job change, then STOP before writing your executive resume. You do not need it, not yet. Certainly, you will find dozens of so-called resume writers willing to take on your executive resume writing project. However, if neither you nor the resume writer have the insight to realize that the problem is not your resume, you are going to be sorely disappointed with the outcome. In fact, if your resume writer suggests that you are not ready to have your resume prepared, you should listen. Read on to learn why you need to stop right now and evaluate your executive job search strategy before you have your executive resume prepared.

1. Stop! You Do Not
Need an Executive Resume
to Start Your Executive Job Search
Amy L. Adler
CEO

2. STOP Before Writing Your
Executive Resume
• You do not need it yet.
• You will find dozens of
resume writers willing to
take on your executive
resume writing project,
but you will be
disappointed with the
outcome.
• Evaluate your executive
job search strategy
before you have your
executive resume
prepared.
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3. I Need a Resume, Right Now!
• Make sure you hire
an expert, certified
resume writer. Do not
skimp on that
important investment.
• Before you commit
your thoughts to
paper, take a step
back.
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4. 3 Important Questions
• Evaluate these three important
questions:
1.
2.
3.
What do you want to do next?
Does your future goal look like
your recent career history?
Does your future goal look like
your distant career history?
• If you do not know the answer
to any of these questions, you
are not ready to write your
executive resume.
• You are probably about five to
eight weeks away from being
ready to have your executive
resume.
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5. What Do for the Next Five to
Eight Weeks?
• Stop focusing on what
your resume could
potentially say.
• Start thinking about
your career goals
from the inside out.
• You need an expert
executive career
coach.
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6. Your Executive Career Coach
Will Lead the Way
• An executive career
coach can walk you
through a highly
customized yet planful
process that helps you
figure out your career
goals.
• You will explore a
variety of career paths
and talk to the right
people who can inform
your career search.
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7. Your Executive Resume Writer
Will Follow Your New Focus
• Think about the future
shape of your executive
resume.
• See the results of your work
and a natural progression
that funnels into the resume
writing process.
• Stick with the plan your
executive career coach and
resume writer have
established for you, and let
them walk the path with you
to your success!
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8. Winning the Executive
Job Search Game
• Curious about the
path to winning the
executive job search
game?
• Call Five Strengths.
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9. Face Your Career Change Fear
Get your complimentary
copy of
“3 Simple Steps to
Clear Your Career
Change Fear”
Amy L. Adler, CEO
(801) 810-5627
Toll-Free (800) 590-2377
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