Executive Profile

         The way to present the best possible executive profile to the business community is to build it as a series of interlocking components. The right suit and a degree do not make you an executive. As a man or woman in the working world you are offering a product. The product you are offering is you. You are comprised of your energy, skill-set, attitude, motivation, charisma, strength, composure etc. At the end of every year you will be presented a W-2, 1099 or some other tax form for filing your state and federal taxes. What these tax forms really represent are receipts. The form YOU receive is a receipt for what your product was worth for that year.
        You may think, “I am on base pay and that base was decided before the year even began. How can that represent my products’ worth?” The answer is this: You accepted the arrangement and worked at your place of employment voluntarily. Therefore you, as much as anyone determined, if not actually pre-determined, what your product was worth. If, when receiving your receipt at the end of the year, you feel as though your product is “selling” or “trading” for less than it is worth then you must decide how to change it.
        The only ways to change what the receipt says the next time is to hope for the best and someone decides to pay more for the same product or YOU decide to change or add to the product to increase its worth. Why does any company change its product or add features to their products? So they can sell more of them and charge more for them. You must do the same. Please stay tuned to this site for suggestions on how you may add to and strengthen the components of your product so you can increase its value to the open market.