| As a specialist and focused Executive CV Service, | | | | seekers were given both pieces of the experiment, |
| before we started our Executive CV Writing Service, | | | | they gained employment at three times the rate of |
| we undertook some market research. This left us | | | | the two earlier test groups, and five times quicker |
| with the question of what should an Executive CV | | | | than the average job seeker, who presently takes |
| Service include? | | | | around 10.5months to find a job. |
| CV Writing | | | | In Executive Employment, where small mistakes in |
| Most CV Writing services are based around the | | | | how you are found and how you apply, particularly |
| speed of turn around, in creating a more marketable | | | | the "three recruiters and out" rule, could blacklist you |
| and better presented version of you. This is driven | | | | form various employment companies, is not the |
| by the candidate side of the market which wants to | | | | service side of an Executive CV as if not more |
| use job boards, although these only account for 12% | | | | important than the CV itself? |
| of fulfilled jobs annually. | | | | Executive Employment |
| Hence, the CV Writing services offer 24 hour turn | | | | If all that Executive Employment was about was an |
| around for draft CV's, and paper copies as optional | | | | Executive CV, then the number of applicants for |
| extras. Within the service, you should have a 30min | | | | FTSE positions would require an army of HR |
| phone call to go through your work history and | | | | professionals to process. |
| assess your strengths, understand what you want to | | | | One thing that is often forgotten about in the |
| do, and output a draft document which focus the | | | | employment market, particularly the Executive |
| two together. | | | | Employment sector, is that people employ people. If |
| Executive CV Marketing | | | | your historic results were all that Executive |
| But while these basic CV service are clear to | | | | Employment decisions were made on, then all you |
| understand, what does the use of the term | | | | would need would be an Executive CV. |
| Executive CV Service actually mean when they start | | | | But as any Executive headhunter knows, the brief |
| charging more? Is it a quicker turn around, a larger | | | | they take from their client at the start of the |
| selection of CV Layouts, or the inclusion of better | | | | Executive employment process, is not what the |
| quality paper? | | | | eventual successful candidate will be required to do |
| Or does it reflect that you get a better quality CV | | | | on day1 of starting their new job. The Executive job |
| Writer for paying more, and that their standard | | | | applicant defines their own strategy within the |
| service - once you take out profit margin and | | | | organisations business requirement, and hence |
| overheads - can only realistically be provided by | | | | negotiates their own final brief. |
| someone on the UK National Minimum Wage? Is their | | | | An executive service, or just a CV? |
| Executive CV Service just therefore a piece of | | | | We think an Executive CV Service should go beyond |
| confession marketing? | | | | just a quicker CV from a wider portfolio of CV |
| Executive Service | | | | Layouts, printed on better quality paper. |
| A CV is pretty simple to understand: a two page | | | | While the core service is greatly improved by more |
| factually based pitch against a specific job. But a | | | | experienced CV Writers, the resultant speed of |
| service should step further than two better quality | | | | employment and gaining the Executive position is |
| pieces of paper. | | | | defined by the ability of the service provider to give |
| In an experiment last year, a national employment | | | | an additional combination of inside expertise, guidance, |
| organisation took 20 job seekers. For 10 of them, | | | | pre-prepared materials and coaching for you to obtain |
| they rewrote their CV's, while the other 10 were | | | | the desired outcome: a Senior Executive Job. |
| schooled in the art of applying for jobs. The result | | | | If the Executive CV Service you are buying does not |
| was that both groups gained worked at about the | | | | give you more than just better paper in a quicker |
| same rate, an improvement on the average job | | | | time scale, then don't be surprised if the results you |
| seeker. But when a third test group of 10 job | | | | expected are not gained quickly, if at all. |