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How to Find Your Next Executive Job
A practical senior leader's guide to executive positioning, hidden opportunities, retained search, interviews, negotiation, and board roles.
Job Strategy
How to Find Your Next Executive Job
Jan Tegze
79 pages
About This Guide
A clear system for the whole job search
The executive job market does not work like the regular job market. At the VP, SVP, and C-suite level, many roles are never posted publicly — they move through retained search firms, board relationships, investor networks, internal succession pipelines, and quiet referrals.
This playbook shows senior leaders how to navigate that market with more strategy and less guesswork. You will learn how to define your executive positioning, access the invisible job market, build relationships with search consultants, and improve your LinkedIn presence without looking like you are actively job hunting.
It also covers the executive resume and biography, running a discreet search while employed, high-stakes interviews, executive compensation, counteroffers, and board, interim, fractional, and advisory opportunities. This is a practical operating system for your next move, not generic advice written for early-career candidates.
What's Inside
Everything you need to stay on track
Executive positioning
Define what you are actually selling before you search, so the market sees a clear, differentiated leader instead of a long resume.
The invisible job market
Access roles that never get posted: retained search firms, board relationships, investor networks, and succession pipelines.
Discreet search strategies
Run a confidential search while still employed, without your LinkedIn activity giving you away.
High-stakes interviews
Prepare for executive-level interviews where presence, narrative, and your due diligence questions decide the outcome.
Compensation & counteroffers
Negotiate executive packages across global markets and handle counteroffers without burning bridges.
Board & fractional paths
Explore board seats, interim leadership, fractional roles, and advisory work as part of your next chapter.
Table of Contents
What the 79 pages cover
- Chapter 1: Before You Search, Know What You're Actually Selling
- Chapter 2: The Invisible Job Market and How to Access It
- Chapter 3: Executive Personal Branding Without Looking Like You're Job Hunting
- Chapter 4: Networking at the Executive Level Without Feeling Transactional
- Chapter 5: The Executive Resume and C-Suite Biography That Open Doors
- Chapter 6: Discreet Search Strategies When You're Still Employed
- Chapter 7: Mastering High-Stakes Executive Interviews
- Chapter 8: Negotiating Executive Compensation Across Global Markets
- Chapter 9: Executive Presence and Communication
- Chapter 10: Leaving on Your Terms: Exit and Severance
- Chapter 11: Landing Your Board Seat
- Chapter 12: The Interim and Fractional Executive Market
- Chapter 13: Executive Assessments and Psychometrics
- Chapter 14: Due Diligence on the Employer
- Chapter 15: The Counteroffer
- Chapter 16: Function-Specific Playbooks
Who It's For
This guide is for you if you are…
- VP, SVP, and C-suite leaders planning their next move
- Executives who need to run a discreet search while employed
- Senior leaders exploring board, interim, fractional, or advisory roles
- Leaders tired of job search advice written for early-career candidates
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