Executive Advantage
Whether you’re looking to pivot, move up, or land a CXO or board role, EMC Executive Advantage is your partner in your leadership career move.
Take Charge of your Executive Career Success Blueprint
The higher up the executive ladder you are, the more difficult it gets to find the best job.
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Whether you are an experienced senior leader or looking to step into senior, leadership, or executive echelons for the first time, you may be uncertain about how to identify the role that most appropriately meets your personality, skills, and aspirations, how to effectively project your own personal brand, or how to fine-tune your career story for the greatest impact.
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This is particularly true if you have held long tenures in the past, or if you are looking to transition industries, roles, or geographies.
Create your own opportunities
Do not stumble into your next role.
Let us help you prepare so you can negotiate your way to a role that is the best fit for your skills, personality, aspirations, and life goals.
The Stakes are High
The higher up the executive ladder you are, the higher are the stakes.
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For one, salaries and remuneration at senior and executive levels can vary tremendously. Being better prepared can mean being able to negotiate significantly higher pay and compensation packages.
Secondly, expectations are often high, reflecting the salary and compensation packages available. You are expected to hit the ground running. This can be great if you have found a role that you can not only excel in, but that appropriately fits your skills, personality, and aspirations. On the flip side a mismatched role can quickly prove to be counter-productive to your career or personal goals.
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Finally, the right role will complement your career growth, potentially fast-tracking it to the stratosphere, whereas the wrong role or an inappropriate fit, may have the effect of the brakes being applied to your career .
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Get these it right, and your career trajectory and benefits can be deeply rewarding. Getting them wrong, however, can set you back significantly.
Psychometric Testing
Self - knowledge
Career Strategy
Personal Brand & Positioning
Profile & Messaging
CV / LinkedIn
Distribution
Interviews & Negotiation
The better your self-understanding, the more refined your career and transition strategy, and the clearer the tools you use to present yourself, the higher the odds you will transition on your own terms.
How Well Prepared Are You?
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Self Understanding
When did you last take your foot off the gas and sit back to reconsider what you want from your career? How close is to your aspirations - not just in terms of career progress but also in terms of satisfaction, values, and lifestyle?
In short, how well do you really understand yourself, and what adjustments to make to your career strategy for it to be altogether more fulfilling and rewarding, and also in sync with your personal life and with your family?
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Personal Brand
You are not just a sum total of the work and experience reflected in your CV. As you step into active search mode, how aware are you of what you stand for, what key and relevant skills you bring to the table, and why you would stand out amongst a sea of candidates?​
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Distribution
The default, conventional approach is to broadcast your CV, applying to a number of roles and hoping that one or more lands. The strategic approach, however, is to be sharply focused, and therefore it is crucial that your profile is distributed appropriately for the greatest effect.
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It boils down to being visible and being compelling.
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Career Strategy
How clear and confident are you about your targeted role, function, and employer companies? Does your planned trajectory fit your skills, personality, and aspirations, giving you the best odds of not only long term success but of the greatest personal fulfilment?
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In effect, how much of a strategic view do you have of your own career? Are you reactive in your approach, or poised to identify and even create opportunities that will serve you even better?
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Messaging - CV & LinkedIn
Your carefully crafted personal brand and positioning are useless unless they are complemented by compelling messaging that focuses and delivers through your CV and LinkedIn profile - all structured to focus on relevancy, results, credibility, social proof, and a call to action.
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Interviews and Negotiation
Hiring managers are looking for candidates who can clearly do one of three main things: make money, save money, or reduce risk. That is all every business boils down to. As it was in your profile and CV preparation, you must present yourself at this stage with the hiring manager’s perspective in mind and see how any skill or experience you have will directly translate to more money, lower cost, or reduced risk.
How we Help
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We lead you through a journey of self discovery, helping you reconnect with (perhaps) long lost aspirations and with what you enjoy most.
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We help you define your personal criteria and unlock clarity on your next career move. ​
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We explore insights into your personality, skills, preferences, deep-rooted motivators, ambitions, aspirations, and even life and family goals, helping you make the right decisions.
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We offer an unbiased, safe, and dedicated space for you to talk through your thoughts, offering a reliable sounding board.
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We are a thinking partner who will strategize with you, research, and reflect back on key insights.
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We help you arm yourself for your next career move, helping ensure it fits with your long term career strategy.
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We enable you to sell yourself as your best version, and give you the tools you need to do that.
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We help you increase your personal impact in front of potential employers.
Career Strategy
We will explore your past career decisions and your personal circumstances to determine what strategy to adopt in your future leadership journey.
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We will then clarify and articulate the strategy in a shape that helps you to move ahead with confidence and take the right decisions.
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(Typical session length 1-3 hours)
Strategic CV Restructure
Executive CVs must be succinct to be most effective. We will use input from your career strategy and personal brand sessions to draw your CV back to brass tacks, and then restructure and recraft it to amplify your strongest assets and focus on the most important skills and experience in your arsenal.
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(Typical session length 1-2 hours)
Transition Strategy
We will dive deep into your circumstances, as well as career goals, to elicit the potential impact of career, function, or geographical transition on your career and self.
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We will be your sounding board, your confidants, guiding and nudging you to take decisions that serve in your best overall interests.
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(Typical session length 1-2 hours)
Psychometric Testing
We will use Hogan's Leadership Forecast Series, which provides an in-depth look at a leader’s performance capabilities, challenges, and core drivers.
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The psychometric test will not only enable you to have a deeper understanding of your own personality and leadership traits, but the results can form a reliable source of confidence for potential employers.
Personal Brand Creation
We will deep-dive into your life and your career, through interview sessions that may last several hours, to distil what makes you uniquely you, what your most critical and sellable skills are, and what aspects of your personality qualify you for leadership success.
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​(Typical session length 2-5 hours)
Personal Dossier
At the end of the programme you will be presented in a comprehensive personal dossier.
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The recruiter- and employer-friendly dossier will include a comprehensive, unbiased third-party assessment report on you as a leadership / CXO / board level candidate and include your CV as well as high-level psychometric testing results.
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You will also receive a career strategy report as well as detailed psychometric testing results.
Pricing
By investing in our services you are investing in powering up your own career which, depending on what you want, can provide fantastic returns in terms of career growth trajectory, compensation and rewards, job satisfaction, successful career transaction, or career and life fulfilment.
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Our service packages are affordable and designed to cost a mere fraction of your eventual career benefits.
Get in touch now to discuss!
Note: EM Consulting's Executive Switch Services are designed to arm you with the strategic and tactical tools you need to take the next steps in your leadership career. By signing up for our services you understand that success, whether in your immediate or long term goals, will depend on a very large number and variety of factors, including the assessment of potential employers, individual circumstances and environments, the economic climate, and ultimately your own stakeholder management, your performance in interviews and employer assessments, and your past and current career performance. ​
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We are career coaches and our services are designed to help you improve and put your best foot forward, but EM Consulting cannot guarantee success in any shape or form and cannot be held accountable should your immediate, short, or long term career goals not be met.