Your CTO Resume needs to demonstrate that you’re a strategic business leader.

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If you're currently a CTO looking for a new, more challenging role—or a VP-level leader looking to move up to the CTO level—you've got a lot on your plate. No job search is easy these days, and an executive job search presents particular challenges.

One thing you may have been putting off is thinking about your CTO resume.

Writing a resume is never easy—and at an executive level, there are a number of challenges. To get the document up and running, you need to think seriously about how to structure your CTO resume, the content you'll select, the accomplishments you'll present—and, more broadly, how you're going to tell to present your value proposition so that you really stand out from the competition. Unfortunately, that takes some time—and requires a good deal more than sitting down and dusting off the resume you've been using since college—because your CTO resume needs to tell a different, more nuanced, story.

Of course, any executive resume has to demonstrate high-level accomplishments, leadership (often of large teams), fiscal responsibility, and strategy—as well as the executive gravitas that's necessary for any role in the C-suite.

But a CTO resume needs even more.

It requires that you demonstrate what you have delivered with technology and the many ways in which you have changed the enterprise for the better—without including so much technical detail that your resume makes the eyes of the CEO glaze over from too much technical jargon.

A great CTO resume is more than a dry recapitulation of facts.

Your CTO resume requires you to define—in a couple of pages—your unique mix of strategic business vision, communication, leadership, a real knowledge of what technology can offer to the enterprise—and how you leverage that knowledge to make your organization more competitive, efficient, and profitable. That takes skill and introspection.

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The right balance of business acumen and technical is critical for your CTO resume.

It’s not always easy to tell the story of your career in a way that's concise and compelling.

But, you don't have to make yourself crazy trying to do all this—while simultaneously navigating your other professional and personal responsibilities.

Because this where I come in. I've been writing CTO resumes for more than a decade and a half. I've worked with CTOs from start ups to Fortune 500 leader. I know the range and complexity of the CTO role, and I know how to present every career as unique.

In addition, my unique, highly-personalized IT resume writing process saves you time and effort. Unlike most IT resume writers out there, I'm not going to ask you to sit down and fill out a 20-page questionnaire.

My painless, efficient CTO resume writing process

We'll talk in depth—generally for a couple of hours—about the key points in your professional career. I'll ask a lot of questions that get under the hood of your career, while simultaneously giving you greater insight into your goals and overall value proposition. That's important, because none of us can see our careers objectively.

We all have blind spots—but my approach to interviewing and the questions I ask can help you see accomplishments you've delivered that are dramatic—but may have just seemed like you were "just doing your job."

After, we've completed the interview, you won't have homework; I may need a number or two, but I'm very thorough. So you can relax, get back to work, and not worry about the resume.

I'll then deliver the best possible CTO resume to help you continue your executive career, after which we'll get on to the LinkedIn profile, any other documents you may need, and one-on-one coaching hours.

And I’m always completely upfront about pricing. The investment for my technology executive tier resume packages ranges from $1397-$2297. My full pricing can be found here.

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