Career Accelerator
Your go-to source for executive and senior-level career strategies, tools, and standout documents. Designed to help high achievers accelerate their next move with clarity and confidence.
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 7
- Latest publication
- Sep 23, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 15, 2026
Latest issues
Save Your Career Receipts (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Start a brag file. Seriously.<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="317.27884615384613" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0AnV!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.co
Invest in Yourself (opens the original)
Read excerpt
I spend a lot of time asking executive clients to think carefully about what they want to be known for and how accurately they are communicating the value they bring. Over the years, I have asked myself these same questions.Early in my career, if someone asked what I did, the simplest answer was that I wrote résumés. It was accurate, but it barely scratched the surface of the work that I do.Today, I see the résumé as just one part of an executive engagement. I often spend hours talking with clie
Why You Need to Be Ready BEFORE Opportunity Knocks (opens the original)
Read excerpt
<di
Executive Resume Strategy Requires Your Full Investment (opens the original)
Read excerpt
From time to time, I’m asked to write a resume for someone, not with them. I always decline. Why? Because to create a great resume about someone, they need to participate fully in the process.Consider this: when you were in school and avoided homework because it felt like too much effort, the outcome was usually predictable. The assignment suffered.A similar pattern appears in executive resume work.Recently, a C-suite executive pushed back on completing the homework that is part of my resume dev
Executive Resume Not Getting Interviews? (opens the original)
Read excerpt
There is a point in some executive searches where something stops adding up. On paper, the career holds. The scope is there. The results are real and often significant. When you step back and look at the trajectory, it reflects exactly what you would expect from someone operating at a senior level. And yet, the market’s response feels weaker than it should, and the executive resume is not getting interviews.Conversations may be taking longer to materialize, opportunities might feel less aligned,
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.