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Get Real About Executive Job Offers! Why Your Resume Won't Help!
If you're serious about getting executive job offers, you may have a critical choice to make. Is your job campaign focused on your resume and getting it distributed? Or is it focused on getting executive job offers? There’s a big difference. You’ve been brought up to think that you get a job by beating out the competition with a fabulous resume and getting it distributed to a wider audience better than anyone else. You’ve been told that you have to correctly jump through all the interview hoops and not make any serious mistakes when talking to a decision-maker. What you’ve been told is WRONG! At least if your goal is to get good executive job offers. You see, at your level you can’t afford to run a job campaign like you did when you got out of college. First of all, no one is going to hire you on the basis of your resume . . . I don’t care how fabulous it is. Any employer worth his/her salt will decide about you only after meeting you face-to-face. And even that isn’t contingent upon how well you answer all his/her questions. The facts are there are only two things an employer is looking for from you. He/she wants to see if you productively fit into the team. And if you can make his/her job easier. If you pass that critical test, then you’ll be hired ultimately because the hiring decision-maker likes you. There has to be a personal connection, though often unspoken. Now those are the facts based on years of the best executive job search authorities' research. They examined not how a resume is written, but how a hiring decision is made. What all of this means is that if you’re serious about getting executive job offers, then you need to start at the other end of the spectrum in making your job search decisions. In other words, you want to understand what it is you have to do to meet face-to-face with a decision-maker as quickly as possible . There you’ll have the opportunity to demonstrate how you can make a difference in their organization going forward. This means you have to make a whole other range of strategic decisions that go way beyond your resume . . . and, indeed, go way beyond traditional notions of interviewing. The secret is to follow a plan of action--a blueprint that gives youa track to run on. It should be a 21st Century approach to the real job market that focuses on getting executive job offers rather than all the old-fashioned traditional methods you learned about in college . . . resumes, mass distribution, job sites, job openings, agencies and recruiters. And wind up spending weeks and months looking.
 
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