EXECUTIVE PORTFOLIOS
BE THE STANDARD BY WHICH ALL OTHERS ARE MEASURED.
Maybe you’ve reached the ceiling at your current job or Maybe you’re just looking for a change. If you’re looking to Take on a new leadership challenge, This Premier Service will help you tell your story – with impact.
What’s Included
DON’T SEND A RESUME. SHARE THIS INSTEAD.
Grabbing the attention of hiring executives is where most job searches go awry. Make short work of your job search, armed with weapons of superior design and craftsmanship.
No mere resume is going to give you the edge you need to stand out in the corporate arena. That’s why our Execfolios offer world class, multi-media executive portfolios for the executive who is willing to think differently about their job search (and career.)
Our portfolios are a superior access vehicle that allow you to cut to the front of the line for interviews and meetings. They include video introductions, in-depth accomplishment summaries and leadership insights which separate you apart from your competition. As one-of-a-kind presentations of your capabilities and accomplishments, they have received industry acclaim from corporate decision makers, human resource leaders, talent managers and executive recruiters around the world.
Go-to-market like the boss you are
Executive Portfolios not only outperform the conventional resume but you can put them in front of thousands of recruiters and corporate decision makers with a few clicks of the button. Participants in our email distribution and social media programs learn the closely guarded secrets and strategies to make their portfolio “go viral.”
Present your credentials and video introduction to decision makers worldwide.
Set yourself apart from other job seekers and candidates by appearing differently.
Point people towards your comprehensive, single-source for truth about you on the internet.
Your executive resume portfolio with video clip is optimized for search engines and ready to be searched by thousands of recruiters and corporate decision makers.
When combined with our proprietary distribution strategies, your "hit rate" for job opportunities increases dramatically.
Anatomy
of An Executive Portfolio
Your Homepage on the Web
Executive Profile With Video Intro
It’s an axiom in marketing that you have about 2 seconds to make an impression before people’s mental filters start looking for reasons to move on. Your Executive Profile and accompanying video intro demand to be noticed the moment a prospective employer arrives.
Imagine giving your visitors a quick demonstration of your knowledge, delivered with a personal touch. Shoot the video once and it can be viewed hundreds, perhaps thousands of times as your 24/7 “body double” inviting your visitors to take a closer look or pick up the phone and start a conversation. If a picture’s worth a thousand words, then how much more communicative is video?
Now you take center-stage as the presenter of your experience and abilities, augmented by the power of digital. In combination, these features create an attractive and attention grabbing landing page for the lifetime of your career, that’s like catnip for both hiring decision-makers and search engines.
Multimedia Resume
Multimedia Resume That’s Impossible to Throw In the Circular Filing Cabinet
When was the last time you honestly felt your resume did any good? You wouldn’t be the first to experience the frustration and disappointment of sending that old job-seekers’ artifact to job boards, company hiring portals and Applicant Tracking Systems. And you won’t be the last.
Traditional job search methods don’t work like they used to and are, even, struggling to stay relevant in a world increasingly defined by digital disintermediation. Standing out from potentially hundreds of other candidates requires that you think differently about the job search in real-world economy that is constantly playing catch-up to the pace of technological innovation.
In this digital age, the formula has flipped from “push marketing” to “pull marketing.”
It has become less transactional and more relational.
It needs to be interactive and dynamic and experiential, never static.
And most of all the technology needs to fade in into the background, allowing us to be more human–at scale.
Accomplishment Summaries
Gorgeous Accomplishments Pages Set the Record Straight – In Style
The next most important part of your Executive Portfolio are the focused (usually, one-page) summaries of Key Accomplishments you have achieved throughout your career. These summaries should include a powerful descriptive title, a brief description of the problem or situation, and a bulleted list of the actions or approach that you took. Finally, finish it off with a quantitative or qualitative summary of the outcomes you achieved for your employer.
Think one summary per page and really drill down on the main points. A truly enterprising executive will develop at least ten of these summaries for use in different situations, but you will find that including three to five summaries in each portfolio you send out will bring satisfying results.
Insights Statement
Show how forward thinking you are with your one-of-a-kind Leadership Insights.
This can be the most important document you create. One page, in either a bulleted or narrative form, you’ll present the key issues relevant to the position or industry for which you’re applying. You write this document as if these were the key issues and trends you would address if you were in that position.
This document demonstrates your genius and creativity as not only an asset to the enterprise, but as an independent thought leader, in your own right. When done correctly, you will have the hiring person nodding “yes” all the way down the page as you blow them away with your insights.
It is rare that any individual will take the time and effort to create this document, but when done properly, it results in the highly sought after “request for interview.”
Career Armory
All the best search strategies and tools in one place.
The C-Suite Loves Them
“Guys, Just wanted to let you know that one bit of advice you gave me was wrong: There is not a “lull” or “quiet period” after you start actively getting your credentials out on the street!”
— Matt
“Based on the comments I have received on every interview since I’ve used my web portfolio, it clearly has opened doors and has done a great job pre-selling me to prospective employers.”
— Carl
“I can’t thank you enough for all your help and support in tuning up my web portfolio and getting me ready for the process. There is no question in my mind that the preparation I received from each of you was the difference.
I was better prepared to move the discussions from the original position (VP of sales) to the President/CEO. Your program added the polish I needed to move to the next level. As you always say - let’s start planning for the next position.”
— Frank
“The online portfolio works great! Last Tuesday I had sent out my web portfolio to a senior officer of a company that I had been targeting. I received a call early the next morning from the Dir. of HR informing me that this Sr. officer wanted to schedule an appointment for an interview right away.
Upon reviewing my ACT database, I realized that I had sent this same individual my previous resume back in August and had no results. I am finding that those people who had received my old resume and are now receiving my new portfolio, are taking a more serious look at me.”
— Brent
“I have recently had the good fortune of working with their team to build my online portfolio. From this experience I have become a big fan of their work!
The first step in our process of working together was them listening to what my goals and objectives were for building my website. They were very thorough in interpreting what aspects of my personal brand I want to emphasize on the website, what design styles I like and choosing a color palette that supports my objectives.
After our initial meeting, they were able to take my ideas, add to them, and begin the process of building my vision. This was a very iterative process that ended up going so much smoother than expected. Throughout our engagement, they provided me with the confidence that my vision was being achieved. I found them to be very responsive, highly creative and a pleasure to work with.”
— Paul
What’s Included
Executive Portfolio
Using this portfolio strategy, we consistently help place people at the highest level of their career ambitions.
Instead of the boring, two-page resume, we craft extraordinary credentials of distinction for the enterprising executive. These credentials have received praise from hiring executives and recruiters around the globe and have been responsible for launching a small cottage industry of career management professionals who think differently about the career search.
In addition to your resume, the Executive Portfolio includes key accomplishment summaries, and a statement of insights relevant to your favored industry or field of endeavor. They can include a unique infographic that tells the story of your career progression or one of your defining accomplishments in a scintillating visual style that immediately sets you apart as a results-focused professional.
Your portfolio may include professionally designed tables, charts, graphs and infographics to visually illustrate and meticulously document your track record of leadership and performance. Our career experts typically spend in excess of 15 hours developing and writing your credential documents before we assemble them into your online multimedia portfolio. This extraordinary benefit represents a state-of-the-art use of technology in advancing your career search.
In addition to the online portfolio, we can provide an attractive Print version of your documents. At your option, you can enclose printed portfolios in a presentation folder that are ready for your interviews plus complimentary business cards to use as an impressive leave-behind.
Your online resume portfolio will include the following components:
Executive Summary page with streaming video introduction.
Visual Resume that may include graphs, tables or charts.
Key Accomplishment summaries focused on bottom-line results.
One Infographic
Leadership Insights (when appropriate for the program you have selected).
Hosting and archiving of your portfolio for one year.
Your online portfolio can be secured behind a password to maintain your confidentiality if you are currently employed or otherwise conducting a discrete search. In that case, it will only be seen by whomever you have given your express permission to view the contents. However, most of our clients choose to keep theirs public and search engine accessible, throughout their search, in which case our portfolios are fine-tuned to rank highly.
Media Components
Professional Video Clip
Your executive portfolio will include a Video Clip Introduction. Imagine the impact on hiring executives when you present yourself in streaming video, outlining how your expertise can make a contribution to the hiring organization. Coupled with your impressive credentials and accomplishments, this feature puts you head and shoulders above other candidates.
Charts & Graphs
Your executive portfolio will include a Video Introduction. Imagine the impact on hiring executives when you professionally appear in streaming video, outlining how your expertise can make a contribution to their organization. Coupled with your impressive online credentials, this feature puts you head and shoulders above other candidates and makes you the standard by which all others are measured.
Professional Business Cards
Although not as impactful as in the past, we can provide elegant custom-designed business cards for networking and inclusion in your print executive portfolios upon request of the client.
Portfolio Distribution
Executive Showcase
To kick off your campaign we send your newly prepared credentials out to our list of approximately 10,000 Recruiters, VC's, PE's, selected board members, career industry professionals, and key corporate decision makers who have influence in different industries and functional communities. Candidates can participate in our Executive Showcase as often as they wish and the first one is included in your Executive Portfolio purchase. Your Executive Showcase can perform double-duty when it’s distributed throughout LinkedIn and other social media platforms.
Electronic Distribution
We provide unique strategies and tactics for getting your portfolio in front of the decision makers in your your industry who will be motivated to view your portfolio. In addition, we’ll make personal introductions and selectively distribute your portfolio directly to those decision makers whom we believe you could have a mutually rewarding relationship.
USPS Print
At your option, we will print and mail up to 50 executive portfolios to targeted companies or recruiters in our network. This portfolio will be mailed in an elegant presentation folder with cover letter, resume, key accomplishment summaries, insights, and business card. As we do not absorb the costs for printing and mailing via USPS, there is an add-on cost to this service of about $20 per piece.
Our Satisfaction Guarantee
Confidentiality
Many of our clients are gainfully employed and want to conduct a confidential search for new leadership opportunities. In addition, we can also furnish the client with his or her own confidential email account that is exclusively dedicated to their job search. We can format portfolios for these clients where their identity remains confidential. This provides total anonymity to the executive who needs to conduct their search discretely.