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Do engineers make the best marketing executives?

On November 18, 2011 By

According to a recent ranking by Business Week of CEOs of the top 1,000 publicly held US companies, more chief executive officers majored in engineering – not marketing, not finance, and not law – than any other discipline.

I have noticed a recent trend that the majority of senior-level marketing executives that I have worked [...]

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Create your web resume.

On November 16, 2011 By

At The Executive Element, one of the most important things we consider when crafting a resume is how the document will look on a computer screen. Let’s face it, recruiters and hiring managers aren’t printing off stacks of resumes to review; they’re quickly browsing through them on their computer screens. This is why we front-load [...]

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Is the resume really dead?

On July 17, 2011 By

I just came across an interesting book titled “The One Page Proposal” and corresponding website that claims that ‘the resume is dead’ and the best way to find a new job is to prepare a one-page job proposal that tells the prospective employer exactly what you can do to solve [...]

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