CIO Resumes: Does Yours Prove that Your Focus is on the Customer?
How Much Technology Does Your IT Resume Really Need? Find That Critical Balance!
You're Strategic IN Your Career. But Are You Strategic ABOUT Your Career?
What Have You Done Lately? Why Your IT Resume Needs to be an Inverted Pyramid
As a professional resume writer, there are some issues that I see over and over again in the initial client IT resumes that cross my desk.
One of the most common is to see every job described in an almost identical number of words, the same number of bullets, the same visual space on the page - whether that job is current, or was a decade and a half ago.
CIO Resumes: Does Yours Prove that You're Qualified for a Rapidly Evolving Leadership Role?
How Do You Uncover the Career Strengths That Make You Stand Out from the Thundering Herd?
How Much Will Staying in Your Current Job REALLY Cost You?
CIO Resumes - Does Yours Prove that You're a Strategic Leader?
I've been an IT Resume Writer for many years, and in that time, I've watched the evolution of technical leadership with great interest.
There have been many changes in the CIO role, of course, but if I had to rapidly define that change over the last several years, it's the transformation of the CIO from a primarily tactical - and often reactive - leader of back office systems to that of a full partner with the rest of the C-suite.
CIO Resumes - 3 Strategies to Leverage Your Early IT Career Achievements
General Practitioner or Surgeon? Does your Career Need an IT Resume Specialist?
IT Resume Writers are a rare breed in the resume writing industry.
Most resume writers are generalists; they write a very wide range of projects, from entry level to executive, and from sales or marketing to administrative. Many of those resume writers are very skilled, and produce strong resumes, cover letters. Many of the those resume writers, quite frankly, are less skillful, and tend to produce look alike, read alike documents.
Does your CIO Resume Make You Look Like a Grey Middle Manager? 5 Do's and Don't's for a Strong CIO Resume
Does your CIO Resume Demonstrate that You're an Innovative Leader?
I recently read this excellent article, "CIOs Must Innovate Or Go Home" by Rob Preston. He argues compellingly against the "trendy pessimism" on macroeconomic levels in the media and general culture.
Rob also discusses the microeconomic challenges to innovation, and sees one primary issue
Does your CIO Resume Keep You up at Night?
I recently came upon an interesting article detailing many of the challenges that keep top corporate CIOs up at night. Gery Menegaz makes some great points on the many, rapidly changing pressures that CIOs face in a constantly evolving and unpredictable technology and business landscape. I'd highly recommend the article; he presents many great, solid insights from some leading CIOs on big data, cloud, BYOD, security, and the myriad other challenges that CIOs face as technology continues to rapidly transform.
The Business of the CIO - is Business
Calvin Coolidge may be an odd character to appear in this technology resume blog. I doubt that the man dubbed "Silent Cal" would understand our word driven culture. Hard to see him having an active twitter account, eh? Let alone blogging.
We now live in a sea of words. Silent Cal may have said little. But his comment that "The business of America is business" resonated strongly with me as I was considering the rapidly evolving role of the CIO.