Resume & positioning · director to C-suite

You're qualified. The resume isn't getting you in.

Senior searches stall for one reason more than any other. The story on the page wasn't built for the eight seconds it gets.

Book a resume audit · $250
Jean Gallagher McCauley
Both sides of every resume, interview, and hiring decision.
Jean Gallagher McCauley
By the numbers
10 yrs
On the hiring side, building People functions at venture-backed companies
300+
Senior and executive searches run firsthand, start to offer
8 sec
What your resume gets from the first reader before a decision
5
Countries of teams hired, built, and led across
01 Where it shows up

Concrete situations, not promises.

VP of Sales
Screened out in the final round, three times.

She kept reaching the last round and stalling. The resume read like a top performer's, not a leader's — quota numbers up front, the org she'd actually built buried on page two.

The turn

Rebuilt around revenue strategy and the team she scaled, not the number she carried. The next two conversations opened at the CRO level.

Director · crossing industries
The right experience, in the wrong language.

Moving from insurtech into fintech. Every real win was wrapped in jargon the new reader didn't speak, so the transferable parts never landed in the eight seconds they got.

The turn

Rewritten for the hiring side he was actually targeting. Recruiter calls in the first week, on roles he'd been filtered out of a month earlier.

People leader · returning
A gap being read before the work was.

Eighteen months out, watching the time off get read as a liability before anyone reached what she'd led before it.

The turn

Reframed the narrative around what the time produced, not what it interrupted. She took the role she wanted — not the one that would simply have her.

★★★★★

"She refined my resume and LinkedIn so they finally communicate my experience and value. Her understanding of hiring made all the difference."

John T. · Enterprise AE
02 The premise
Every month a search drags costs you money and momentum. The hold-up usually isn't you. It's the page.
Jean Gallagher McCauley
03 Why me

I've been the person reading your resume. That's the whole difference.

10 yrs Building People functions at venture-backed companies
Hundreds Of senior and executive searches run firsthand
Both sides Of every resume, interview, and hiring decision
04 Approach

Positioning first. Documents last.

01
The audit
Thirty minutes on where you stand. A straight read on why the search has stalled and the first thing to fix. Credits toward any engagement.
02
The positioning
We find the story before touching a document. What you've done, what the hiring side needs to see, and the gap between them.
03
The documents
Resume and LinkedIn rebuilt around the positioning, written for the busy reader on the hiring side.
04
The search
Strategy for the search itself. Where to show up, how to work the network, and how to handle the offer.
05 Engagements

Matched to the role you're going for, not the title you have.

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06 Interview preparation

The final round is its own skill.

You've got the interviews. Now we make sure the room goes the way it should. Three focused sessions, run by the person who's sat on the other side of the table.

$750 Three 30-minute sessions
Book interview prep
01
Intake
We map the role, the panel, and where you feel most exposed. You leave knowing exactly what we're preparing for.
02
Mock interview
A real run at the hardest questions, in the format you'll actually face. Direct feedback, no flattery.
03
Follow-up & guidance
We sharpen your answers, the questions you ask them, and how you close. You walk in ready.
07 Start here

Find out what's holding your search back.

Thirty minutes. A straight read on why the search has stalled and the first thing to fix, whether or not we work together. The fee credits toward any engagement.

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