5,000+ Resumes Written,
20 Years Executive Recruitment,
10 Years Career Strategist AUS & NZ,
Former Senior Recruiter UK, AU & NZ,
5,000+ Resumes Written,
20 Years Executive Recruitment,
10 Years Career Strategist AUS & NZ,
Former Senior Recruiter UK, AU & NZ,
5,000+ Resumes Written,
20 Years Executive Recruitment,
10 Years Career Strategist AUS & NZ,
Former Senior Recruiter UK, AU & NZ,
The executive job search guide
A senior job search works differently. Fewer roles are advertised, recruiters decide quickly, and one careless step can follow you for years. These guides come from 20 years inside executive search. They cover how to be found, how to handle recruiters, how to recover from a setback, and how to say yes to the right offer.
LinkedIn for senior leaders
How to be visible to search firms without looking like you are leaving.
- →CEO LinkedIn Profile: What Boards, Investors and Recruiters Check
- →How to Message an Executive Recruiter on LinkedIn (With Examples)
- →LinkedIn Newsletters for Senior Leaders: Worth the Effort?
- →LinkedIn With a Portfolio Career: Showing Several Current Roles Cleanly
- →LinkedIn for Executives: The Complete Guide to Your Profile
- →Who Senior Leaders Should Connect With on LinkedIn (and Who to Ignore)
Working with recruiters and search firms
How search works and how to handle every contact well.
- →Executive Coach, Career Coach or Mentor: Which Do You Need?
- →How to Follow Up on a Job Application (With Email Examples)
- →How to Withdraw From an Executive Search Process
- →Media Comments: Should Senior Finance Leaders Say Yes?
- →Speaking at Conferences and Industry Events: Building a Reputation Recruiters Notice
- →The Recruiter Screening Call: What They Ask and How to Answer
- →What Is Executive Search and How Does It Work?
- →What Shows Up When a Recruiter Searches Your Name
- →Writing to a CEO When There Is No Vacancy
Redundancy, exits and setbacks
What to do in the first days and weeks after a hard change.
- →Asked to Resign: What to Do in the First 48 Hours
- →Executive Exit Interviews: What to Say and What to Keep to Yourself
- →Executive Job Search When Your Industry Is Shrinking
- →Garden Leave: What It Means and How to Use the Time Well
- →Long Hours in Finance: When to Push Back and When to Leave
- →Made Redundant as a Finance Manager: Your First 30 Days
- →Passed Over for the Top Job: What to Do in the Next 90 Days
- →Redundancy at Senior Level in New Zealand: What to Do Next
- →When Should a CFO Move On? Signs Your Time Is Up
- →When Your Employer Is in the News for the Wrong Reasons: Protecting Your Career
Offers, contracts and negotiation
What to check and what to ask for before you sign.
- →Executive Relocation: Negotiating the Package and the Family Side
- →Fixed-Term CFO Contracts: Should You Accept One?
- →How to Decline an Executive Offer Without Burning the Bridge
- →Leaving a Bonus or Unvested Shares Behind: Negotiating a Buyout
- →Probation at Senior Level: Why Executives Fail in the First Six Months
- →Reading an Executive Contract: Notice, Termination and Change of Control
- →Restraint of Trade Clauses: What to Check Before You Sign
- →Salary Negotiation in New Zealand: How Senior Leaders Do It
- →Taking a Turnaround CFO Role: What to Check Before You Say Yes
- →Two Executive Offers at Once: How to Choose and How to Buy Time
Executive job markets in Australia and New Zealand
How the senior market works city by city.
- →Executive Job Market Outlook 2027: Australia and New Zealand
- →Executive Jobs in Auckland: How the Senior Market Works
- →Executive Jobs in Brisbane and Queensland: Where the Senior Roles Are
- →Executive Jobs in Canberra Beyond the APS
- →Executive Jobs in Perth and WA: Resources, Energy and Finance Roles
- →Executive Jobs in Tasmania: How a Small Market Works
- →Executive Jobs in Wellington: The Public Sector Market and Beyond
- →Overseas Finance Experience: Getting It Recognised in Australia and New Zealand
- →Remote and Hybrid Finance Roles: How to Find Them and Win Them
Career moves and next steps
Promotions, sideways moves and planning the next role.
- →Back to a Permanent CFO Role After Fractional or Consulting Work
- →Big 4 Advisory to Industry: Moving From Transaction Services or Consulting Into Finance Roles
- →CEO Succession: How to Be the Internal Candidate the Board Picks
- →CFO to COO: When It Works and How to Make the Case
- →COO to CEO: Showing You Can Own the Whole Business
- →Career Change Into Accounting: What Employers Will Accept
- →From CFO to Private Equity Operating Partner
- →Hiring Your First Finance Team Member: What New Finance Managers Get Wrong
- →Leading Leaders for the First Time: From Running a Team to Running a Function
- →Leaving Accounting: Careers That Use Your Finance Skills
- →Looking for a New Finance Role While Working Full Time
- →New Year Career Reset for Senior Leaders
- →Performance Review Self-Assessment: Examples That Show Your Value
- →Planning Your Last Executive Role: What to Get Right Before You Step Back
- →Reporting to a Fractional or Part-Time CFO: How Finance Managers Make It Work
- →Senior Manager vs Director: What Is the Difference?
- →Shared Services Finance Roles: Good for Your Career or a Dead End?
- →Stuck at Group Financial Controller: Why It Happens and What to Change
- →Taking a Smaller Title at a Bigger Company: When It Is the Smart Move
- →Your First 90 Days as a Finance Manager: What to Fix and What to Leave Alone