Executive CV Writing Service for Directors and C-Suite Leaders
You have led at a high level for years, yet your CV may still read like a record of responsibilities.
That becomes a problem when a headhunter has a few seconds to decide whether you belong in the conversation.
Our executive CV writing service turns the depth of your career into a focused case for your next appointment. You will work with a former recruiter, executive search professional or industry specialist who understands how senior people are assessed and knows where a credible CV earns attention.
Every engagement begins with a 90-minute consultation. Your completed executive CV is normally delivered within seven working days, with packages starting at £1,099.
Upcoming Executive CV Writing masterclasses
22 October 2026 • 13:00 BST
Is your Executive CV reflecting your true value?
The senior job market is competitive and expectations are high. A strong track record isn’t always enough if your CV doesn’t show the full value of what you’ve done. At executive level, your CV needs to do more than list roles and responsibilities. It should demonstrate how you lead, the problems you solve and the difference you make. Yet condensing a complex career into two focused pages can be surprisingly difficult.
This free, live one-hour masterclass from the Hanover Talent Solutions team is designed for executives and senior professionals across sectors and functions.
Your career has moved on. Has your CV?
Many of the senior leaders we meet have reached Director, Managing Director or C-suite level while carrying a CV first written several roles ago. New jobs have been added, the page count has grown and the language has become heavier, but the document has never been rebuilt around the person they are now.
A long career history can look impressive and still leave the reader doing far too much work. They need to grasp your level, the scale you have handled and the kind of problems you are trusted to solve. If the most important evidence is buried on page three, it may never be seen.
This is where specialist executive CV writing earns its keep. We decide what deserves space, what has become background and how the story should be shaped for the roles you want next.
What should an executive CV communicate?
A senior CV needs to make your commercial value easy to understand. Titles alone rarely do that. Two Managing Directors can hold the same title while leading organisations of completely different size, complexity and reach.
Your CV should give the reader useful evidence of:
- The scope of your remit, including revenue, budget, headcount or geographic reach where relevant.
- The decisions you owned and the consequences of those decisions.
- How you led through growth, recovery, integration, regulation or another demanding business situation.
- The results you produced, with figures and timescales wherever the evidence supports them.
- The sectors, ownership models and stakeholder environments in which you can operate.
We also look for what is missing. Senior people often understate the work that has become normal to them. A £40 million transformation can end up as one flat bullet because you lived with it for three years. An outside writer will keep asking until the real scale appears on the page.
What changes when your career story is properly positioned?
Hear directly from an executive who worked with us across their CV, LinkedIn profile and interview preparation.
How we write your executive CV
A 90-minute consultation with your writer
We start with a detailed conversation about your career, the roles you are considering and the market you are entering. This gives us the context that a questionnaire cannot reach. It is also where we uncover the figures, turning points and examples that have usually been left out of the existing CV.
A full rewrite built around your next move
Your writer reviews the material, identifies the strongest evidence and builds a fresh narrative around your current level. We write for human readers first while making sure the structure and language work with applicant tracking systems.
Review, refinement and delivery
You receive the first draft within the agreed timetable and can discuss any changes with your writer. The final document is supplied in an editable format, ready for applications, recruiters and direct approaches.
Who will write your CV?
Your writer will be chosen for their fit with your background and target roles. Our team includes former recruiters, executive search professionals and senior industry specialists. That experience changes the questions we ask and the decisions we make about what stays on the page.
You will know who you are working with, speak to them directly and have a proper working conversation. Senior careers are too nuanced for a form, a template and a hopeful press of the generate button.
What do our clients say?
You do not need to take our word for it. These reviews come from people who trusted us with the next stage of their careers.
Executive CV packages
Executive CV
£1,099
Executive CV and LinkedIn profile
£1,499
Executive CV, LinkedIn profile and executive biography
£1,899
Executive CV, LinkedIn profile and second executive CV
£1,999
Need it sooner? A 48-hour express service may be available. Ask us about timing when you book your consultation.
Hear from executives we have worked with
A CV service is personal, particularly at this level. These clients explain what the experience was like in their own words.
Should LinkedIn be updated at the same time?
For many executives, yes. Recruiters may find you on LinkedIn before they ever ask for a CV, and they will often compare the two. The documents have different jobs, though, so copying and pasting one into the other wastes the opportunity.
The CV can hold more detail and be tailored for a specific appointment. Your LinkedIn profile needs to work across a wider market, support discovery and still sound like you. When we write both, we make them consistent without making them identical.
Who is this service for?
Our executive CV writing service is designed for people who are:
- Moving into a Director, Managing Director or C-suite appointment.
- Returning to the market after several years in one organisation.
- Changing sector or repositioning a career after a significant transition.
- Approaching executive search firms or applying directly for senior roles.
- Finding that a strong career is producing very little response on paper.
If your main goal is a board or non-executive appointment, your experience needs to be framed for a different audience. We would recommend our dedicated NED CV service instead.
Will a professionally written CV get me a new role?
No credible writer can promise you a job. The market, your fit for the brief and the way you perform throughout the process all play a part.
A strong executive CV can improve the part you control. It can help a recruiter understand your value quickly, give decision-makers better evidence and make your applications feel consistent with the level you have reached. That creates a stronger starting point for the conversations that follow.
What is the return on the investment?
Senior searches can run for months, and a weak CV can quietly cost you opportunities throughout that time. The fee should be considered against the value of the roles you are targeting and the time already invested in your career.
For an executive earning £150,000 a year, our £1,499 Executive CV and LinkedIn package represents less than 1% of their annual gross salary.
The lasting value sits in having a career narrative you can use across applications, recruiter conversations and interviews, rather than rebuilding the story from scratch every time an opportunity appears.
Prefer to get to know us first?
Our executive career masterclasses show you how senior appointments work in practice and give you a feel for the way we approach CVs, LinkedIn and the wider search. If there is an upcoming session relevant to your market, you can register and join us live.
