Who Would Want to Recruit You – If You Are Just Adequate or Average?
Bernard Pearce – The Executive Career Transition Specialist
It is clear: most Executive and Senior Manager CV’s under-sells them and could often be one that could belongs to anyone whose career has developed along a similar route.
So how good is yours?
Recruiters need to know whether you are worth exploring further:
- How good a candidate are you?
- What makes you different and better than other candidates?
At Executive and Senior Manager level, where I specialise, your competition is greater, the expectations of you are higher and being exceptional, rather than adequate or just average, is essential to differentiate you from hundreds of others competing for the same roles.
A high quality CV at your level is essential and must, therefore, clearly and concisely demonstrate your value to potential employers – with your key value-adding strengths and the significant achievements that evidence those values.
In short – your USP – what makes you different and better than others interested in similar roles! Being just adequate or average has absolutely no value at all – at your level.
Leaving it for others to decide your value, or work it out for themselves, will more likely lead you into the wrong job and locked into uninspiring tasks; an environment that compromises your integrity; the wrong sector, or even in the wrong geographical location.
Your CV is therefore not merely a history of where you’ve been, but your ‘marketing brochure’ positioning you for your next role!
And for that, you need to have clearly established what that perfect next role would ideally be – and where; and you must have a full appreciation of you: your working history, your reason for changing jobs right now, your motivations and drivers, and again, what makes you exceptional not just adequate or average!
At the same time, it is vital to ensure total consistency between the person in your CV, the one in your LinkedIn profile and the real live person who walks through the door at interview.
Raising the quality of your CV to be one worthy of you – someone who will clearly bring real value to a potential employer – is what I do. It demands some challenging preparation work, but it’s important to appreciate what you aspire in your next role – just ‘more of the same’, or something bigger, more challenging, perhaps?
Then it’s a matter of crafting the document that presents you as exceptional, but without lies, without exaggeration – merely blowing your own trumpet with pride, confidence and justifiable evidence.
You will have no difficulty finding people purporting to produce CV’s at varying rates – many of course are offering nothing more than a typing service which, at lower-levels, might create something better than individuals could do for themselves and be adequate for the task.
At your level however, with a 6-figure salary, you know you cannot afford to be seen as either adequate or average.
If your CV doesn’t explain why you are different and better than other candidates for the same role – how will they know? Why would they want to see you?
When you are recruiting for lower-level roles in your own organisation, do you really look for those who are average or just adequate? Of course you don’t – you cannot afford to recruit average or just adequate employees – so you really seek the exceptional ones!
So why do you think this reality won’t be relevant in your case?
Now is not the time to be risking your future security – you really cannot afford to be seen as just adequate or average!
If you’d rather be sure, and want to avoid the risk to your future, why not ask me to review your CV for you?
Some professional advice might make a huge difference to you, your future career and your earning potential.
About Bernard Pearce
Bernard Pearce is The Executive Career Transition Specialist who helps executives and senior managers to:
- Create Their personal brand – with a dynamic and focused CV
- Identify Perfect opportunities – with insight of the real job market
- Deliver Outstanding performance – conquering the interview and beyond
Bernard’s clients better understand where they have greater value, employability and opportunity.
Bernard helps you get and keep the JOB YOU REALLY WANT, either in your current organisation or a new one.
Executives who work with Bernard increase their self-confidence, self-esteem and motivation.
They secure new roles that fit their seniority, experience and geographical preferences.