Author: Charlotte Smith

CV Tips for Senior & Executive Professionals

Posted on by Charlotte Smith

From the team at neuco

When operating at a senior or executive level, your CV isn’t just a summary of your experience – it’s a strategic document that should reflect your leadership impact, vision, and the measurable value you’ve delivered. At neuco, we regularly support senior-level talent in positioning themselves effectively for global opportunities, and we’ve compiled these high-level recommendations to help refine and elevate your CV.

Prioritise Relevance

At this stage in your career, it’s not about listing everything – it’s about what matters most to the roles you’re targeting. Strip out early-career positions or unrelated part-time work unless they offer significant, transferable value.

Tip: Focus on your last 3-4 roles, ensuring they demonstrate scope, progression, and impact.

Show Your Impact – Tangibly

Data drives decisions. Whether it’s revenue growth, cost-saving initiatives, or successful turnarounds, back your achievements with numbers wherever possible.

For example:
“Led a team of 50+ across three regions, delivering 23% YoY revenue growth.”
“Reduced operational costs by 18% through supply chain restructuring.”

Make Your Contribution Clear

If a team delivered a major initiative, clarify your individual contribution. What role did you play in its success? What decisions did you lead? What roadblocks did you remove?

Recruiters and boards want to understand your unique leadership style and capabilities.

Tailor for Strategic Alignment

Your CV should reflect where you’re going – not just where you’ve been. Tailor it subtly for each opportunity, emphasising alignment with the organisation’s challenges, sector, and objectives.

Particularly if you have a hybrid background, tailor your CV to focus on and highlight the most relevant experience to the opportunity you are applying for.

Structure for Readability

Even the most experienced professionals can benefit from a clean, modern CV layout.

  • Stick to 1–3 pages
  • Use a clear hierarchy: Company | Role | Dates
  • Highlight promotions and internal progression
  • Keep role descriptions short and focus on key tangible achievements
  • Include a short executive summary at the top
  • Avoid over-styled formatting – keep it professional and easy to digest

File Format: PDF only
Hyperlinks: Ensure they work (LinkedIn, portfolio, publications)

Context Is Key

For global or niche-sector experience, offer context.
For example:

  • Was the company pre/post-IPO?
  • Was your division a new launch or a turnaround?
  • Were you leading through M&A, restructuring, or scale-up?

This is especially important when the company is lesser known or has undergone an acquisition or rebranding.

Consider Regional Differences

If applying internationally, be mindful of CV norms:

  • Photos and addresses may be standard in parts of Europe
  • UK/US CVs typically exclude these
  • We’re happy to advise on formatting and expectations by region

Be Honest About Contract Work or Gaps

One of the most common concerns we have from hiring managers is around candidates appearing ‘jumpy’, so where relevant, be sure to add in the context for role changes.

If you’ve held interim or consultancy roles, state this clearly. Similarly, if the company has been acquired, or you left during a transition period, add a line of explanation to avoid assumptions.

Need Help Refining Your CV?

neuco specialises in global executive search across Satellite & NewSpace, Connectivity, Content & Media, and Cyber Security. If you’re considering your next move or want a confidential review of your CV, reach out. We’d be happy to help!

Email us at hello@neuco-group.com

LinkedIn Optimisation Tips

Posted on by Charlotte Smith

Why it matters:

  • Recruiters find candidates using a mix of keywords, job titles, and location—make sure you show up in the right searches.
  • Hiring managers are increasingly turning to LinkedIn as a key tool to assess experience and credibility.
  • It’s a great way to show your network and experience by showing your who you are connected with in the industries you work.
  • Keeping your profile current helps the right opportunities come to you, faster.
  • Your network, visibility, and profile activity shape your personal brand.

Recruiters find candidates using a combination of keywords, job titles, and location – so it’s important to make sure you’re showing up in the right searches. Hiring managers are also placing increasing value on LinkedIn, often reviewing profiles before CVs to assess credibility and depth of experience. Many will also look at mutual connections within the industry, making your network a powerful way to demonstrate your reach and relevance. Keeping your profile up to date ensures the right opportunities can find you, while your visibility, activity, and network all contribute to shaping your professional brand.

Strengthen Your Profile

Content & Clarity

  • Align your profile with your CV, but be careful around including confidential details depending on your contract.
  • Add your current role and highlight any internal promotions; link them to your company page.
  • Be clear whether roles are permanent or contract.
  • Keep job summaries brief – no more than 150 words – summarising key responsibilities and tangible results (e.g. sales figures, notable clients, growth metrics).
  • Ensure your location is accurate to where you work or can commute – don’t default to your company HQ.

About Section:

  • Keep your summary concise: 3–5 sentences outlining your key strengths, sectors, and standout achievements.
  • Add a personal touch – mention what drives you or what you enjoy outside work.

Keywords & Headline

  • Use keywords relevant to your role and industry, including variations (e.g. IoT and “Internet of Things”).
  • Include alternative spellings (e.g. monetisation / monetization) to maximise search visibility.
  • Your headline should reflect your core skillset or job title (e.g. “Cybersecurity Specialist | SaaS | Pre-Sales Expert”) – keep it short and clear.

Profile Visuals

  • Use a professional, up-to-date profile photo.
  • Add a relevant banner image that reflects your sector or personal brand.

Increase Visibility & Engagement

Activity & Relationships

  • Engage with industry posts, comment thoughtfully, and follow relevant companies.
  • Share insights or articles to show you’re active and knowledgeable in your field.
  • Build your network – connect with peers, leaders, and others in your industry.
  • Ask for introductions and recommendations where appropriate.
  • When connecting with network in the industry, add a note where applicable if you have a personal or mutual connection.

Credibility & Consistency

  • Request recommendations from former colleagues or managers – they add weight to your profile.
  • Ensure your LinkedIn matches your CV – discrepancies can cause concern when reviewed by hiring manager.
  • If your company has gone through a name change or acquisition, make that clear in your experience section.

Creating AI-Enabled Sports Media Experiences 

Posted on by Charlotte Smith

AI has enabled the sports media sector to give viewers unparalleled access to behind-the-scenes and additional content. On Episode 36 of The Content & Media Matters Podcast, Elliot Renton, the SVP of Asia Pacific at Magnifi, joined us to share his own inside look at what’s happening behind the scenes of the sports media sector. He explained how AI is shaping the future of sports media, as well as sharing his predictions for how Magnifi will be helping to shape that future directly. Read on for more. 

How do you see AI shaping how fans experience sports, both live and digitally? 

I actually think we’re underestimating the role of AI in sports. I think it will penetrate every facet of the industry over time. It’s already impacting fan engagement and how we’re delivering content through the back-end workflows. Stadiums, ticketing, coaching, and players’ wearable technology are all workflows that can link together on top of what we’re doing in broadcast and social media. I think we will be looking back in a decade’s time at the role of AI, and as long as it’s been deployed responsibly and done in the right way, we’ll be looking at looking back at it as a transformative technology, just like the smartphone has been. Some areas are going to be slower than others, and you’re still going to need the human element, but I think as a technology for the sports industry, AI will continue to be very impactful in the future. 

What is Magnifi’s vision for revolutionising how we interact with sports content?

We as a business are about four years old and have grown from India to become a US-India business that’s doing some fantastic revenues. We work with some really great customers, like the IPL in India, some football federations in Europe and broadcasters. Earlier this year, we launched our US operations on a commercial level and are seeing explosive growth in that. The third pillar has been Asia in the last few months. We have to target the APAC market in a very different way because of its fragmented nature. But, technology-wise, we have a vision to provide AI solutions that can deliver content from the field of play to consumers working B2B with different businesses to understand their challenges. And we’re looking at how to venture into other content areas as well. 

In sports, we provide a set of solutions that are more flexible, affordable, and very easy to work with as a technology. What we’re fundamentally doing is asking business leaders, ‘How can you harness this AI-driven revolution and create more meaningful connections with your fans?’ There’s been a lot of talk about personalisation, but how you package that up from platform to platform will vary. So will the way that you harness the data that comes from that. We share data sets with all of our customers, and they can mix that up with their first-party data. 

Sports businesses in general are behind the curve when it comes to harnessing data. This is spoken about at events that we all go to all the time, but I think the opportunities around that are vast, both from a fan engagement point of view and an advertising or sponsorship point of view. We’re challenging business leaders to think about how they will bring technology into the fold, but we’re coming at it in a very flexible and easy manner. We’re asking, ‘How can you deploy that? How can you connect that to your existing thing? What technologies do you have to drive growth?’ That creates really exciting discussions. 

In this part of the world – certainly in APAC, where people are not quite sure what they want to do – we play a bit more of a consultative role. Then we have other customers who are very clear on what they want to do and how they want to deploy technology, and then it’s up to us to try and win that business. So there are some creative things going on in the sports industry, especially in this part of the world as well as in Europe, the UK and the US, where there are some really exciting developments happening too. 

To hear more from Elliot, tune into Episode 36 of The Content & Media Matters Podcast here.

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