Executive Resumes
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Executive Resume Format
An executive resume format generally features:
- Conservative appearance
- Separate area showcasing career accomplishments
- Finished length of two or more pages
Executive resume formats are not only for executives. Just about
any job seeker can use an executive resume format, especially one
who has career or academic accomplishments and seeks a more comprehensive
approach to employment history.
Conservative Appearance
Executive resume formats generally employ the Times New Roman
font, which is universally installed on PCs and easy to read, yet
elegant in appearance.
Designer fonts, which include Black Adder II, Castellar and Broadway,
are best left for resumes of graphic designers, artists and those
working in nontraditional industries. (However, they are not good
for scannable resumes in any case.)
Using ample 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 format 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 experience.
Regardless, a resume should be only as long as it needs to be.
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 resume
onto one page, reducing white space and font size to such an extent
that the finalized resume is hard to read and not aesthetically
pleasing.
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