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Executive Marketing in the AI Era: Being Found, Chosen, and Remembered By Lisa Rangel AI has changed how your professional reputation gets built, evaluated, and surfaced. Across the entire web. I’m seeing it from both sides. On the recruiting side, the tools that source and screen candidates have become dramatically more sophisticated in the last…

In this video I share what most executives get wrong, which is thinking outreach means asking people for a job.

It does not. It means making sure the people who could put your name forward know what to put it forward for.

Twelve years at one company used to be the strongest line on the page. Now executives hide it, shorten it, or start apologizing for it in the first interview. That instinct is backwards. What does a hiring committee read into a long run? How do you frame it so it lands as depth instead of someone who has not been tested? And where do offers disappear between a good conversation and a decision?

Rewriting your resume for every job posting is the worst advice in the industry, and it is costing you the conversations that land offers. The advice was built for a volume game. At your level there is no volume game, because there are maybe fifteen roles in the country you genuinely want and most of them will be filled through somebody who knows somebody. Three hours spent matching language to a job description is three hours you did not spend talking to the people who could put your name forward. Make the resume strong and honest once, adjust it lightly when something warrants it, then go spend the week on people.

Reels and Shorts: Rewriting your resume for every posting is like changing your outfit for every date. Three hours of that would have bought you six real conversations.

There was a time when the title did a lot of the work. VP of this, Head of that, and the room leaned in.

That time is fading. Titles inflate, they mean different things at different companies, and everyone across the table knows it. A senior title still gets you a look. Winning the interview takes more than that now.

What wins now is proof that you moved something while you held the role. The number that changed. The decision the outcome turned on.

The title opens the door. The proof is what gets you through it.

If you want help turning your track record into proof that lands, book a call with our team.

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Your executive resume might be getting filtered before a human ever sees it.

AI screening tools are now part of the hiring process, even at the VP and C-suite level. And most executive resumes are not built to pass through them.

The software scans for keyword alignment, role-title matching, measurable impact, and formatting it can parse cleanly. If your resume does not check those boxes in the right way, it gets deprioritized before a recruiter opens it.

You still write for a human reader. You just structure the document so the software lets it through to that human.
And if you want to go deeper, join me tomorrow (Thursday, August 13) for a free live resume training at 12 noon ET. I will walk through my full L.A.N.D. Executive Resume Formula for getting your resume past the software and in front of the right people.

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