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Executive positioning and job search advisory
Career Upgrader helps Directors, VPs, and senior leaders clarify their executive positioning, strengthen their resume and LinkedIn presence, and pursue right-fit opportunities with a focused campaign.
Private, pressure-free conversation. No placement promises. No generic career advice.
Who we are
Career Upgrader helps accomplished leaders compete at the level their experience warrants. Most senior candidates do not need more random applications. They need a clearer leadership narrative, sharper positioning, better conversations, and disciplined execution.
We combine executive career coaching, executive resume strategy, LinkedIn positioning, interview preparation, and job search advisory through the Raise the Roof™ framework.
Senior leadership
Managing Partner · Pursuing the ICF Associate Certified Coach credential
Neil is the founder of Career Upgrader and creator of the Raise the Roof™ framework. His background spans executive recruiting, talent acquisition, career strategy, pastoral leadership, and military chaplaincy. He helps senior leaders translate broad experience into a clear, credible leadership signal.
Managing Director
As Managing Director, Robyn helps steward Career Upgrader's operations and client experience. She strengthens the thoughtful, organized, and personal service expected from a family-led boutique advisory firm.
Not sure whether your challenge is positioning, execution, interviews, or market strategy?
Talk With NeilExecutive career services
Clarify the roles, environments, business problems, and executive value proposition that should define your campaign.
Turn responsibilities into leadership impact and align your resume, LinkedIn profile, pitch, and professional narrative.
Build a focused campaign across networking, executive recruiters, targeted outreach, and carefully selected applications.
Prepare decision-level stories, strengthen executive presence, evaluate fit, and approach offers with greater leverage.
Your resume is not the strategy. It is one expression of the strategy.
Find My Starting PointSuccess stories from leaders like you
IT Project Manager IV → Director
Moved from no responses to five offers and a $30K pay increase after sharpening his leadership story and market positioning.
Director of Sales → VP of Sales
Signed a VP of Sales offer in 14 days after his executive campaign, message, and timing came together.
Director → PMO Executive
Secured a PMO executive role and a $70K+ increase within three months after clarifying his target level.
Client examples describe individual experiences, not guaranteed or typical results. Outcomes depend on market conditions, fit, execution, responsiveness, industry demand, and other factors.
Let's identify what is keeping your search from producing the right conversations.
Get My Free ConsultationHow we strengthen your executive search
Assess your target, current traction, leadership story, materials, and search activity.
Define your executive value and build the resume, LinkedIn, pitch, and narrative around it.
Use disciplined networking, outreach, recruiter relationships, and selective applications.
Prepare for interviews, evaluate opportunities, negotiate well, and enter the right role ready to thrive.
Start with diagnosis, not another generic rewrite.
Start My AssessmentWhere affordability meets transparency
We first determine whether your problem matches our expertise. A consultation is not a disguised pressure call.
You see what the engagement includes, what it does not include, how support works, and what you will own.
We promise strategic work and candid counsel, not a job title, salary, interview volume, or hiring date.
| What matters | Career Upgrader | Resume-only vendor | Recruiter / search firm |
|---|---|---|---|
| Works directly for you | Yes | Yes | No, works for employer |
| Executive positioning strategy | Core service | Varies | Not the mandate |
| Resume and LinkedIn alignment | Integrated | Often deliverable-based | Limited |
| Ongoing job search counsel | Available by program | Usually limited | Only for active searches |
| Transparent client scope | Before engagement | Varies | No candidate fee |
Choose support based on the problem you actually need to solve.
Compare My OptionsYour next move deserves a strategy
Bring us the search as it is today. We will help you identify whether your greatest constraint is direction, positioning, visibility, interviews, or execution.
Get My Free Executive Strategy ConsultationStart the private consultation questionnaire or email Neil directly. Your message goes to a real member of the Career Upgrader team.
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