Executive
Resumes
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Executive
resume formats generally have:
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A more conservative appearance.
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A separate area showcasing Career
Accomplishments.
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A finished length of two or more pages.
That said,
Executive formats can be used by any job seeker, especially those who have
career or academic accomplishments and seek a more comprehensive approach to
employment history -- if that comprehensive approach is relevant and enhances
their candidacy.
Conservative Appearance
Executive
Resume format generally employs the Times New Roman font, which is universal
on PCs, easy to read, yet elegant in appearance.
Designer fonts, which include BlackAdder II, Castellar, and Broadway,
are best left for graphic designers, artists, and those in nontraditional
industries. The ample use of white
space and underscored section headings are aesthetically pleasing and provide
visual cues about where one data area ends and another begins.
Career Accomplishments
This is
the hallmark of the Executive resume and what hiring managers most want to
see. In this economy, when dozens
or even hundreds of applicants with essentially the same backgrounds vie for
each opening, the only characteristic that will separate a candidate from all
the others is what they accomplished in previous positions.
In an Executive resume, these achievements are showcased near the top
of the first page. What’s more,
these accomplishments are generally quantified in terms of percentages, dollar
figures, and time periods to specifically indicate what was done.
Finished Length
Executive
resumes are usually two or more pages because of the sheer breadth of a
candidate’s experience. However,
a modern resume should be only as long as it needs to be to contain the data
relevant to the current job search. It’s
unwise to expand a one-page resume to two pages to meet an arbitrary page
length, just as it is to cram a two-page document onto one page, reducing
white space and font size to such an extent that the finalized document is
hard to read and not aesthetically pleasing.
Samples
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One – Banking Executive
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Two – Division Manager, Marketing
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Three – Fashion Executive
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Four – Software Executive
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Five – Supply Chain Director
