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Are you a senior candidate looking for some strategies that will make your CV stand out? Well… you are in the right place. The main problem seniors’ encounter is how to look up-to-date with their vast work experience or having been in the same job for ages.
How can you show the employer that you are still on top of your game and have evolved with the industry?
This post covers 6 effective tips that will make your senior resume highly effective. Keep reading…..
1. Use a two-page CV length
For a seasoned professional, with lots of work experience and achievements, having 2 pages available to show your relevancy is simply a must.
There is only one exception: if you extend your CV to two pages, you have to make sure that everything on there is relevant and impressive.
2. Don’t include everything
Instead, focus on the latest 10-15 years of your career and show how you kept developing yourself within this period. Highlight only relevant aspects while removing anything else and you will immediately become the specialist.
A company is hiring because of a SPECIFIC problem – position yourself as the go-to specialist for that problem!
3. Show that you are ‘on top of your game’, after years in the same job
One of the problems that senior candidates face is to prove that they are still ‘relevant’ and ‘current’ in the field. Especially after having been in the same position for years and years. Showing that you kept growing within the company is essential!
Divide your experience in 2-3 different roles that showcase your progression and add 1-2 bullets with relevant achievements within that role.
It is fine to include more bullets in the most recent role, as you probably have a lot to say about yourself. Moreover, you might want to include a year to show the impressive results were delivered recently.
4. Make Sure Your Knowledge Is Still Relevant
Career advancement requires you to have relevant and updated knowledge. It is essential to show the employer that you are an expert in that particular job industry. That’s why it could be a clever move to include ‘Relevant courses’ in your CV.
Try to highlight only relevant, but at least one course every 2 years, to show that improvement is important to you.
Are you missing some crucial knowledge? Signing up for short courses is the best move and fastest way to gain that knowledge and skills.
5. Make everything quantitative
As a senior, you have a relatively big impact on the company. That’s why it is extra important to provide evidence of your suitability using quantifiable results. Think numbers and percentages – achievements over responsibilities.
The problem with responsibilities is that they don’t hold much weight. If you wrote that you were responsible for social media, it just makes it a statement without facts.
Now, if you turn into a quantifiable achievement like “launched a new content strategy that increased social media reach from 317 to 4781 users in 3 months” it is immediately much more impressive!
Recruiters love such stories, and as it is specific it is perceived immediately as trustworthy.
6. Executive summary
An effective executive summary is not about what you want but about what you have to offer.It is the context-setting start of your resume; where do you want the employer to focus on?
Start the summary with a 2-line sentence. This will make sure the summary will not end up like a large text-block, making it more appealing to start reading. Never make the summary longer than 1/3 or 1/2 of the page. Highlight your greatest relevant achievements to make a lasting first impression. Let them imagine what could happen when they hire you!
Be specific and focus solely on things that matter to them. Every sentence should have a purpose.
Last but not least, get an expert else to review your CV. A professional CV writer will be able to tell you what impression it gives after quickly scanning the document. Did it make the impact you designed?
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