Career Tips

Online interview preparation: a video interview with two panellists open on a laptop in a dark executive home office, with a notebook and tablet on the desk
Leadership & Transition

Virtual Executive Interviews: 10 Ways Senior Leaders Stand Out On Screen

Online interview preparation at executive level is not a production exercise. What separates a virtual executive interview from the same conversation in a room is not your lighting or your background: the medium degrades the sense of the other person being present, and you are now being authenticated as well as assessed.

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Executive career pivot: a senior leader at the window of a dark corner office at dusk, city skyline beyond, with a compass on the desk and a branching-path artwork on the wall
Leadership & Transition

The Executive Career Pivot: 7 Strategic Steps

Of the 168 people appointed chief executive of an S&P 1500 company during 2025, 40% were hired from outside the company. In healthcare it was 70%; in financial services 23%. Whether a pivot is available to you is mostly a question about the receiving market, not about your transferable skills.

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The routes that end an executive career after a misrepresented qualification: a civil claim, disqualification from directorship, and a board duty to verify
Board & Governance

CV Misrepresentation: The Governance Risk That Ends Executive Careers

South Africa’s qualifications statute carries five years’ imprisonment and has produced no publicly reported prosecution. The consequences that end executive careers sit elsewhere: a civil claim for the whole of what you were paid, a five-year bar from directorship that needs no conviction, and a board verification duty that took effect this year.

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How to write an executive CV: a printed CV resting in a leather folder on a dark executive desk at dusk, with a globe, a laptop and a city skyline beyond
Executive Career Documents

How to Write an Executive CV: The Complete 2026 Guide

An executive CV is a document that makes the case for a leader’s judgement, not a record of duties held. It is read by three different people in three different systems, and almost all published guidance is written as though only one of them exists.

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