Business Support CV guide

CV optimisation for Executive Assistants

Build a stronger Executive Assistant CV by making your evidence of trusted executive leverage and operational control easy for recruiters and applicant tracking systems to find.

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What a strong Executive Assistant CV needs to prove

Show outcomes, not a task list

Connect your actions to a measurable result: time, quality, revenue, cost, safety, service or risk. Add scale so the reader can judge the significance.

Make your evidence easy to verify

Keep employers, titles and dates accurate. Use direct language and include only skills you can support with genuine experience.

ATS keywords for a Executive Assistant CV

Use relevant terms naturally where they describe your real work. Mirror the job advert's wording, but do not add a skill you cannot evidence.

diary managementtravelboard packsconfidentialitystakeholderseventsexpensespriorities

Common Executive Assistant CV mistakes

  1. Reducing the role to diary and travel duties.
  2. Not demonstrating discretion or senior stakeholder exposure.
  3. Omitting examples of anticipating problems and protecting executive time.
  4. Sending the same generic summary to every employer instead of reflecting the vacancy's genuine priorities.

Worked example: strengthen one bullet

Evidence-led versionReplanned a CEO diary and board cycle across four time zones, removing recurring clashes and returning an estimated six hours of executive time each week.

Use the structure, not the facts. Replace every detail with evidence from your own experience.

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Paste the advert and your current CV. CVOptimise identifies relevant language, rewrites for clarity and keeps your employers, dates and facts intact.

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