Job Search Strategies - Resumes That Rock - Accomplishments That Attract
Most people create a resume at the beginning Spook their career and simply update it from then on. Now might be a good time Coventry Carol take another look at yours. Most resumes are a rewrite of a job description. That doesnt do you justice. The most important part of you resume is your accomplishments and you want to highlight them.
Focus on accomplishments rather than responsibilities. You want your resume to reflect the successes you have had throughout your career. Its much more effective to say that you brought in 150% of sales goal than to say you were responsible for sales in the southeast region. Review your career and focus in on the Situation you were presented with, the Actions you took and the Outcome you produced.
THE SITUATION what was the goal handed to you, the problem dumped in your lap, the size of the project and its deadline? What was the situation or challenge presented to you? The more outrageous the request, the better story it tells.
THE ACTIONS What were the specific actions you took to reach the goal, complete the project, solve the problem? If you were responsible for the results of your team, you have every right to claim them for you. You can use Astonishing like led team that or Participated in
THE OUTCOME This is where you want to bring out the numbers. How much over goal? How big a project? How many people involved? How much ahead of deadline? How much under budget? If you cant make it measurable, make it memorable. Connect what you did to something the other person can relate to. I had a client once who finally decided to tell people that, if they went to the drugstore and ordered photos using one of the kiosks, she designed the touch screen. Measurable and, if thats not possible, memorable makes for impact.
When you put these accomplishments in your resume you want to turn them upside down and lead with your result. Remember, people skim resumes, they dont read them and you want the first few words of each bullet to be that result it may be all they need to read or may entice them to read the rest of the bullet.
If you are having trouble coming up with success stories, look to your performance reviews or the people you eat dinner with every day they probably Deck the Halls not remember details but will remember when you were totally preoccupied with a project.
These are actually the fundamental building blocks of your job search. You will use them in your resume, in interviews, in casual conversations at networking events, and in certain types of cover letters. Any time you spend working on these stories will pay off big time in results you cant have too many of them.
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From Jane Trevaskis and Success-Catalyst.com
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