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About CV Advantage

CV Advantage has provided executive coaching and resume consulting solutions to executives across all industries worldwide.

We receive consistent feedback from executives who have benefited from our services reinforcing the fact our approach to executive job search yields far superior results as compared to traditional job search methodologies and practices.

For many years, we've posed the following question:

"Do you want a job, or just a nice looking resume?"

Resume Feedback

Great resume writing doesn't come naturally to most executives.

Many executives haven't even needed a resume for years. As an off shoot of our executive search practice, we tried to help as many executives as possible with their job search efforts. As a result, we've provided tens of thousands of executives from all industries with detailed resume feedback over the years.

The unfortunate reality is most executives either downplay or don't realize the critical importance of having the best possible resume in order to differentiate themselves from their competition - and actually land an interview (let alone their next career assignment).

It is one thing to attempt to network within one's extended "friends & family" network; it is quite another when you find you need to go outside of this network to land your next career assignment.

Once your job search campaign goes outside your extended "friends & family" network - it's all starts with your resume.

The statement, "I don't rely on my resume too much; I know I can differentiate myself in an interview." is flat out naive if an executive is operating outside of their "friends & family" network.

Our resume feedback has focused on the - 2 - inseperable components critical to a great resume:

	Consicely articulated quantified content communicating quantified scope & scale of responsibility and quantified business impact.

	A presentation format facilitating a reader's ability to easily assimilate the content via a consistent predictable flow of consicely articulated sound-bites.

The very fortunate reality is 100% of the resumes we see can improve dramatically in both of these areas, and this is exactly what you can successfuly accomplish with the CV Advantage Toolset process.

Executive Coaching

The roots of the CV Advantage Toolset process are in a very specific executive coaching process.

Our coaching process focuses on identifying the - 2 - inseperable core attributes of an executive's unique career value proposition.

	An executive's unique career value proposition emphasizes the measurable impact an executive has had on quantifiable business metrics

	An executive's unique career value proposition also emphasizes the unique executive capabilities & attributes the executive employed to produce the business result.

Over the years, we've delivered our job search oriented executive coaching process to executives with careers built on roles at companies ranging from pre-IPO start-ups to multi-billion dollar business unit responsibilities at companies such as SAP, Ernst & Young, Oracle, WorldCom, et al.

Our executive coaching clients have emphasized we add value well beyond traditional executive coaching consultants. Our consultants career's uniquely combine P&L line managment executive career experience with also possessing retained executive search career expertise. Our ability to relate to and help executives identify their unique career value proposition is unparalleled as a result.

In order to meet the demands of a larger population of executive desiring exposure to our unique job search oriented executive coaching process, we have captured our specific executive coaching process in the $109.95 CV Advantage Toolset.

Now executives benefit from the -exact- same executive coaching process in a self-guided format, supported by numerous examples to guide them along the way, for $109.95 as compared to our $5,000 guided executive coaching process.

We consistently receive positive feedback from executives reinforcing the value of the CV Advantage Toolset process, and encourage you to view example Client Testimonials.

Interviewing Skills

The CV Advantage Toolset process not only helps an executive identify their unique career value proposition, it helps the executive learn how to articulate it in an interview. Executives having been through the CV Advantage Toolset process consistently comment on having a new found ability to interview infinitly better than they had ever dreamed.

WHAT - Business Results Have You Produced?

Both as career executives and as executive recruiters, we have found most executives do a reasonably adequate job of articulating - what - they have done in any particular role. Where many fall down is in being able to articulate the - quantified - business results they have actually produced or driven either directly or indirectly through their efforts.

As a result, much of what comes out of an executive in an interview are statements of effort not anchored against any -quantified- business results. This can be devistating to the interviewing executive - especially for senior level executive roles where you are absolutely paid to directly influence business metrics in a measurable way.

HOW - Did You Produce Them?

This is where 90% of the executives we interview fall flat on their faces.

It is one thing to be able to articulate "WHAT" you've done - it is quite another to articulate "HOW" you did it.

Anyone that is good at interviewing executive candidates has to get past what the executive interviewee has accomplished in their career and understand their method of producing results. WHY? Because -metrics- do not translate from job to job; all they do is confirm scope and scale of experience (i.e., they are simply a check in the box).

The capabilities & attributes an executive leverages to produce quantifiable business results are what truly define an executive's unique career value proposition.

	Any executive role has a set of measurable business objectives associated with it (i.e., the "WHAT" with defined scope & scale).

	Any business objective requires a specific capability set on the part of an executive to successfully execute against the business objective (i.e., the "HOW").

The job of the Executive Hiring Authority (or Executive Recruiter) is to identify - if - a prospective candidate possesses the required specific capability set necessary to enable the candidate to successfully execute against the business objectives behind the role the candidate is being considered for.

The problem for the interviewing candidate is the fact they've gotten paid to produce - Results. They get paid for - WHAT- they produce - not - HOW they produce the results.

This translates into a typical executive not being mentally prepared to answer questions about - HOW - they produced the results they claim to have produced.

For example, an interview question such as, "I see you drove an increase in profitability of 13-18% year over year. That's great. How did you do that?" will typically produce a response from the executive being interviewed that starts with, "Uhmm..." and is followed by a response typically illustrating the fact this is the first time the executive being interviewed has ever conciously thought about - HOW - they produced the result. This unfortunately is very common and not the way to differentiate yourself in an interview.

We've designed the CV Advantage Toolset process to take you through exercises that give you a newfound ability to interview better than you've ever dreamed.

Job Search Strategy

No matter how one finds themselves in a situation where they feel compelled to proactively seek alternative employment, it can be one of the most frustrating periods in anyone's career.

Given you excel at what you do, your ability to land than next great career assignment is purely based on the timing of being exposed to the right career opportunities.

So how do you maximize your exposure to the right career opportunities?

For years we've been giving executives "insider" advice on how to be in the right place at the right time by helping them construct Job Search Strategies that maximize their exposure to opportunities through not just executive recruiters and HR personnel, but through executive hiring authorities directly.

Most people understand tactics dictate strategy. If you can't tactically implement a strategy you will fail.

The biggest challenge for many executives is they are unfortunately only aware of a few of the tactics actually at their disposal.

	Fanning a "Friends & Family" Rolodex of business, networking, and known recruiter contacts.

	Resume posting on generic job sites (e.g., Monster, CareerBuilder, et al.).

The fundamental reality of conducting a successful proactive job search campaign is the fact you are simultaneously engaged in - 2 - inseperable activities:

	An aggressive direct marketing campaign

	An aggressive networking campaign extending outside of your immediate "Friends & Family" Rolodex of contacts

Combine this with learning how to "think like an executive recruiter" and this puts a whole new set of tactics (i.e., tools) you can leverage to successfully maximize your exposure to great career opportunities - once you learn what they are and how to use them effectively

For Example:

	Executive, HR, Recruiter Contact Databases
	Email Campaign Software & Services

	Resume Distribution Services
	Executive Career & Job Services Sites

Our Discount Partners

CV Advantage has partnered with a number of job search related resources, services, and tools partners in order to provide access to additional services and solutions CV Advantage clients might find beneficial at discounted preferred pricing rates. Our Discount Partners provide us with discounts average 25% off our Partner's standard pricing with many of the discounts exceeding the price of the CV Advantage Toolset.

CV Advantage does not benefit from referral/affiliate fees from our Discount Partners. We have instead asked our Partners to provided us with discount codes that we include with the CV Advantage Toolset for clients who may choose to try the job search resource services and tools our Discount Partners offer.

Our list of Discount Partners list continues to grow both in number and catagory of Partners.

	Executive Career & Job Services Partners
	Executive, HR, Recruiter Contact Database Partners

	Resume Distribution Partners
	Other Career Guidance Services Partners

	MORE EXECUTIVE CAREER & JOB SERVICES DISCOUNT PARTNERS

	MORE EXECUTIVE HR, RECRUITER CONTACT DATABASE DISCOUNT PARTNERS

	MORE RESUME DISTRIBUTION SERVICES DISCOUNT PARTNERS

	OTHER SERVICES & SOFTWARE DISCOUNT PARTNERS


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