Your Name
Nairobi, State Zip
(123) 456-7890
yourmail@gmail.com
linkedin.com/in/yourname
➢ Learn how to write bold executive summaries
(examples and templates)
➢ Include your target job title, industry/space, years of experience, and
specialties.
➢ Highlight key achievements or career themes
➢ Include specific accomplishments, like “250% Revenue Growth in 3 Years”
Professional Experience
Company 7
, Location
Job Title
MM/YYYY-Present
➢ At the executive level, little attention should be paid to your
day-to-day duties, work habits, or even hard skills.
○ Instead, it’s all about results and impact.
➢ Under your leadership, what was the business able to achieve?
○ What were your biggest initiatives? What bold moves did you make improve
the company’s standing? How much did the business grow while you were in
the position?
➢Learn more about creating powerful, concise executive accomplishments
➢ Numbers and results. Executive recruiters need to know you’re going to
move the needle
○ For example: “Added $32M in new profit over 3 years by developing
differentiated product line which decreased service time 50% for end
users.”
Company 6
, Location
Job Title
MM/YYYY-Present
➢ When applying for executive positions, you can’t lean on your hard skills
as much as you did earlier in your career.
Executive soft skills
take on greater significance.
○ Unfortunately, you can’t just say you have leadership and expect
executive recruiters to believe you. You have to find a way to prove it.
For example:
➢ Leadership: Ask yourself, what situations benefited the most from your
timely leadership?
➢ Vision: When you mention your big ideas, initiatives, and
accomplishments, demonstrate your vision by including the why and placing
them in context of the bigger picture.
➢ Entrepreneurial: Think back to any pet projects you nurtured, departments
you grew, or calculated risks that paid off big.
➢ I nnovation: Compile the best examples and stories from your past
experience in which you changed operating procedure, streamlined processes,
consolidated systems, or mined a previously untapped sector of the market.
Company 5
, Location
Job Title
MM/YYYY-Present
➢ Typically, we advise to keep your resume to one page, but if you’ve been
at it long enough to reach the C-suite -- particularly if it’s been 10+
years -- you deserve another page or two.
➢ Don’t worry too much about expanding beyond a single page as you show
your career trajectory. That said, make sure to put your most important
information and achievements on page one.
➢ Use short bullet points and strong accomplishments to keep your
experience powerful and to-the-point.
Company 3
, Location
Job Title
MM/YYYY-Present
➢ Your executive brand is important to executive recruiters. “I don’t care
if it goes back 15 or 30 years,” an executive recruiter told Jobscan
. “I just want to see that the resume is promoting a highly competent,
proven executive who knows what they’re best at, where they want to go, and
what they really want to do next in their career.”
➢ Find opportunities to show not only the end results, but how you identify
opportunities and achieve results
➢ If possible, communicate your business values. Give the recruiter an idea
of what you’ll want to accomplish first at this new job based on what
you’re sharing about your previous jobs.
Company 2
, Location
Job Title
MM/YYYY-Present
➢ As you get further back in your career to your roles as a manager or
individual contributor, start to pepper in more of your hard skills and
domain knowledge.
➢ Executive recruiters will like to gain an understanding of your career
foundation.
Company 1
, Location
Job Title
MM/YYYY-Present
➢ “What have you done for me lately?” You don’t need to include your entire
career on your resume. If something is 15 or more years old, think hard
about whether it adds to your candidacy or not, especially if age discrimination is a concern.
Education
Degree, Graduation Year (YYYY - Optional)
College Name, Location
List additional certifications or relevant leadership/management trainings
you’ve received
