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Top Executive CV - Board Executive CV CASE STUDY: Top Executive Resume

To demonstrate our reputation for results, we have included Top Executive CV case studies to highlight the way we influence a customer's ability to market themselves effectively. We give candidates the necessary tools to be successful in the employment market by creating a powerful CV, giving tips on self-marketing, working on an effective job hunting strategy and motivating to achieve goals.

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Resume Writing and Mentoring Case Studies:
Long-Term Unemployed | Career Progression CV + Redundancy CV | Top Executive CV

Resume Writing Case Study: Top Executive CV

This person had a long and very successful track record in marketing, advertising and branding. Professional experience included being the Global Director in Charge for a multi-million US Dollar global advertising company. The candidate also possessed significant professional recognition (awards and professional membership) for creating memorable multi-million pound UK advertising campaigns (media and TV). They also had an excellent reputation for winning significant contracts from leading brands (some very well-known global brands).

Significant Outcomes:

1) Able to network and successfully compete for jobs with an exceptional CV.
2) Job Interviews and lots of interest from leading marketing and corporate recruiters.
3) Became European Client Services Director for global advertising and media company.

Resume Writing: Making a BIG difference at the top executive level!

To create an effective personal marketing document and really market credentials, Winning CV assessed what was required and identified core areas to focus on (Pareto's 80:20 rule):

1) Created a fully bespoke personal marketing document (CV). CV was carefully written, positioned and customised to targeted job roles. A well-written and presented CV makes a big difference in terms of creating the right impression with recruiters and securing interviews.

2) Created a dedicated achievements and core competencies section to tell recruiters exactly what the candidate has excelled at and highlighting top level achievements. Developed a dedicated achievements section aligned to core competencies for senior executive roles. Aligned achievements to developing business strategy, leadership, financial management and profiling some of the memorable TV, advertising and media campaigns, etc.

3) Being VERY selective about what to include in a personal marketing document (CV). The candidate had many different achievements, large multi-million pound campaigns and projects making it important to carefully select achievements that added most value.
It was also important to present achievements effectively and carefully align them to core competencies for senior executive roles. This is because achievements and demonstrating essential core competencies are key differentiators for succeeding at this highest level.

4) Enabled candidate to confidently target a wider number of employers. The original CV was too narrowly focused on marketing advertising agencies or consultancies. The new CV enabled the candidate to target other large corporate roles like Head of Marketing or Chief Executive Officer by aligning core competencies and key achievements to target roles (correctly positioning the CV to widen scope and optimise chances of interview success).

5) Created a strong personal profile aggregating top level experiences, skills and expertise as well as clearly highlighting objectives and target roles. Created a compelling and insightful personal profile to capture interest of the recruiter (30 second scan).

Resume Writing and Mentoring Case Studies:
Long-Term Unemployed | Trapped In A Role + Career Progression | Top Executive CV

Resume Writing Study: Global IT Director CV (FTSE 100 Company)

As Global IT Director for a leading FTSE 100 company, this candidate was seeking a new challenge as Chief Executive Officer or Managing Director for a top 100 company. What was lacking was a credible CV worthy of making an impression as a Top Executive by showcasing exceptional achievements, skills, expertise and exceptional experience. Professional recognition included: Global Executive Board Member on the Microsoft Security Council (defining global security threats, pathways and technology roadmaps).

This executive had significant experience of introducing complex state of the art IT and security systems, requiring competenices in business strategy development, leadership, programmes management, financial management and IT (security) expertise. The customer also piled on the pressure by requiring a CV that would be sent to all the top FTSE 100 companies!! This was not an issue because all our CVs are fully customised to specific requirements.

We carefully positioned the CV towards targeted roles by recognising the importance of IT and systems in driving forward business development and growth. There was clear emphasis on selling benefits of employing someone with profound IT expertise in ever-changing global business operating environments. Expectional achievements were aligned to core competencies for Boardroom-level jobs, showing full capability of becoming a Chief Executive or Managing Director for a leading company.

Many of the established CV writing processes were followed by clearly telling recruiters what the candidate is good at (skills, expertise and achievements) and evidence of suitability (professional development and experience, etc). We also included clear motivations and objectives to give the CV clear direction and focus towards targeted roles, thereby giving a clear statement of intent (often lacking in CVs). With such a long track record of success, we simplified the existing CV by including a clever career summary because of the diverse consultancy projects and company roles the executive has undertaken in various countries.

Significant Outcomes:

1) Able to network and successfully compete for jobs with an exceptional CV.
2) Job Interviews and lots of interest from leading IT companies and corporate recruiters.
3) Customer very pleased with new CV - no direct feedback since: no news is good news :-))

CV Profile Examples: Customer Testimonials

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CV Examples: CV Writing Examples

We have included an idea of our CV template and the level of detail required for producing an interview-winning CV. Our exact CV writing template is kept hidden purely for commercial reasons but nevertheless shows our approach and thought processes.

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Professional CV Writing Services: from Winning CV

'We notice candidates really under-selling themselves and their potential. The CV is an essential marketing document representing the job seeker.

We treat all CVs like a marketing document, clearly selling the key benefits of employing the candidate, their skills and other key elements to create the best possible impression and gain an all important interview'.