Account Executive resume examples for 2025
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How to write an account executive resume
Craft a resume summary statement
Your resume summary sums up your experience and skills, making it easy for hiring managers to understand your qualifications at a glance. Here are some tips to writing the most important 2-4 sentences of your resume:
Step 1: Mention your current job title or the role you're pursuing.
Step 2: Include your years of experience in account executive-related roles. Consider adding relevant company and industry experience as relevant to the job listing.
Step 3: Highlight your greatest accomplishments. Here is your chance to make sure your biggest wins aren't buried in your resume.
Step 4: Again, keep it short. Your goal is to summarize your experience and highlight your accomplishments, not write a paragraph.
These four steps should give you a strong elevator pitch and land you some account executive interviews.Hi, I'm Zippi, your job search robot. Let me write a first draft of your summary statement.
List the right project manager skills
Your Skills section is an easy way to let recruiters know you have the skills to do the job. Just as importantly, it can help your resume not get filtered out by hiring software. Here is how to make the most of your skills section and make sure you have the right keywords:
- You often need to include the exact keywords from the job description in your resume. Look at the job listing and consider which of the listed skills you have experience with, along with related skills.
- Include as many relevant hard skills and soft skills as possible from the listing.
- Use the most up to date and accurate terms. Don't forget to be specific.
Here are example skills to include in your “Area of Expertise” on an account executive resume:
- Customer Service
- CRM
- Healthcare
- Sales Process
- Salesforce
- Work Ethic
- Product Knowledge
- Business Development
- Customer Relationships
- Account Management
- PowerPoint
- Customer Satisfaction
- Business Sales
- Patients
- Relationship Building
- Sales Presentations
- Digital Marketing
- Digital Transformation
- Excellent Time Management
- Sales Territory
- Business Relationships
- Saas
- Excellent Interpersonal
- Sales Strategies
- Lead Generation
- Sales Cycle
- Sales Quota
- C-Level
- Media Sales
- Cold Calls
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How to structure your work experience
Next you should include your work experience. Structure your work experience section by listing your most recent experience first, followed by earlier roles in reverse chronological order.
Start with your job title, company name, city, and state on the left. Align dates in month and year format on the right-hand side.
Include only recent, relevant jobs. Avoid including work experience over 20 years to avoid ageism.
Beneath each job, you should have bullet points to emphasize why you're the perfect fit for the account executive.
How to write account executive experience bullet points
Remember, your resume is not a list of responsibilities or a job description. This is your chance to show why you're good at your job and what you accomplished.
Use the XYZ formula for your work experience bullet points. Here's how it works:
- Use strong action verbs like Led, Built, or Optimized.
- Follow up with numbers when possible to support your results. How much did performance improve? How much revenue did you drive?
- Wrap it up by explaining the actions you took to achieve the result and how you made an impact.
This creates bullet points that read Achieved X, measured by Y, by doing Z.
Here are examples from great account executive resumes:
Work History Example #1
Sales/Account Representative
Accessible Space
- Maintained and developed new procedures to maximize efficiency and improve communication with all departments.
- Promoted to this position in 1989 after one year as Inside Sales Representative in IMMI's Commercial Division.
- Worked with Director of Membership to establish customer service policies/procedures and ensure effective communication of those policies to Site Sales team.
- Produced and presented PowerPoint presentations on products and services.
- Reported daily/weekly and monthly achievement of various sales objectives.
Work History Example #2
Sales/Marketing
Cincinnati
- Reported directly to Vice President of Sales Promoted after six months from Online Account Executive to Online Sales Manager for Cincinnati.com.
- Focused on building trust and establishing consistent communication with existing and past customers.
- Redesigned and re-launched online dining package, virtual photo gallery, and online coupon package.
- Responded to group RFPs and proposed contracts including catering and banquet event orders.
- Managed media relations, corporate communications, motorsports and marketing activities for Fleer / SkyBox brands.
Work History Example #3
Marketing Coordinator
LNP Media Group
- Created logos, brochures, flyers, forms, posters, wrote copy for ads, website and Twitter promotions.
- Created Twitter, Facebook and Google + Company pages.
- Trained to become Digital Strategist for social media and online advertising.
- Managed RFP and agency production process in coordination with timelines and budgets $1MM - $5MM.
- Developed corporate PowerPoint presentations and managed updates.
Work History Example #4
Marketing Coordinator
Amazon
- Conducted research on the best social media practices and achieved high engagement utilizing free marketing channels on Twitter and Facebook.
- Focused on the successful sales of used textbooks, using the internet's most popular channels targeting college students worldwide.
- Worked with Facebook to understand and test new ad types; communicating internally their potential to impact team goals.
- Cleaned and prepareed containers before placing goods inside and sending to shipping department.
- Designed and executed structured marketing tests to inform future spend levels and expected ROI.
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Add an education section to your resume
The education section should display your highest degree first.
Place your education section appropriately on your resume. If you graduated over 5 years ago, this section should be at the bottom of your resume. If you just graduated and lack relevant work experience, the education section should go to the top.
If you have a bachelor's or master's degree, do not list your high school education. If your graduation year is more than 15-20 years ago, it's better not to include dates in this section.
Here are some examples of good education entries for resumes:
Bachelor's Degree In Business
California State University - San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA
1999 - 2002
Highlight your account executive certifications on your resume
Certifications can be a crucial part of your resume. Many jobs have required certifications.
Start simple. Include the full name of the certification. It's also good to mention the organization that issued the certification. Next, specify when you obtained the certification.
If you have any of these certifications, be sure to include them on your account executive resume:
- Certified Sales Professional (CSP)
- Professional Certified Marketer (PCM)
- Sales Management
- Certified Management Accountant (CMA)
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- International Accredited Business Accountant (IABA)
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
- Accreditation in Public Relations (PR)
- Certified Resume Specialist: Accounting and Finance (CRS+AF)
- Accredited Business Communicator (ABC)