What C-Suite and Senior Resumes Get Wrong
What C-Suite and Senior Resumes Get Wrong Most executive resumes fail for the opposite reason junior resumes fail. A junior resume usually has too little to say. A senior resume almost always has too much — and buries the one thing that actually matters underneath twenty years of it. After two decades managing complex projects and the years since spent writing resumes for professionals at every level, I see the same three mistakes repeatedly at the senior end. 1. The resume lists duties instead of decisions By the time someone reaches a senior role, their resume shouldn't read like a job description anymore — it should read like a track record of judgment. "Managed a team of 15" tells a reader almost nothing. "Restructured a 15-person team mid-project to recover a slipping timeline, delivering on the original deadline" tells them you make decisions under pressure that produce results. Senior hiring managers aren't checking whether you can perform the funct...