When initially screening your resume, recruiters quickly assess a number of items, including your current employer, title, and responsibilities; your career history and trajectory; number of employers; dates; and degrees and licenses. While there are several essential components to building a successful resume, the two most often neglected or all together omitted are context and […]

By Betsy Berkhemer-Credaire, President and Author of “The Board Game: How Smart Women Become Corporate Directors” One of the questions women executives ask me most often regarding their careers is, “How do I get on a corporate board?”  Until recently, the answer was not encouraging. The number of Fortune 500 board seats held by women […]

Fred Clayton with National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) Director of Chapter Services, Robin Kite, at the NIRI annual conference in Florida where Fred received the 2012-2013 NIRI Individual Leadership Award for his contributions as a volunteer member of the Los Angeles Chapter Board of Directors.

With potentially hundreds of resumes to review in response to a job posting, it is crucial to be able to quickly scan a resume and notice some important—and telling—features. Here are my top three from my years in executive search: Do the dates add up? In a chronological resume, has the applicant moved from job […]

As a recruiter, finding a candidate who has a bad reference may seem like an automatic deal-breaker, however, a bad reference shouldn’t necessarily disqualify a candidate.  The difficulty for the recruiter is to understand when a bad reference should ruin a candidate’s chances, and when it should not. Before automatically throwing a candidate out for […]