Professional Accomplishments
The Purpose of your Skills and Accomplishments
Go into good detail about the following:
- Any benchmarks or landmarks accomplished as the result of your unique skill-set.
- Using facts, figures and statistics, show how your best efforts showed the best results.
- Your specific talents and unique gifts as related to your job.
- All accomplishments that sets you apart.
Accomplishments demonstrate how you have used your skills and abilities to achieve success and produce positive results. An accomplishment can be any task you performed that provided a tangible benefit for the company.
The best accomplishment statements describe how you added value by increasing efficiency, saving time, saving money, or contributing to the bottom line. Accomplishments should be an “Action-Benefit Statements” that demonstrate your quantifiable, measurable and results-oriented success.
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Questions for Accomplishments
- How have you increased revenues or reduced costs?
- Have you increased productivity or improved profits?
- Have you ever increased the quality or value of a product or service?
- What did you design, initiate, create, or manage successfully? Make these statements more exciting by including the benefit your work provided.
- What situations did you face that required a resolution? How did you resolve a specific crisis or overcome a particular challenge?What was the impact on the organization?
- What daily tasks or routine activities did you perform?
- What skills did you use effectively in previous jobs? Consider including tasks that seem obvious or mundane by turning them into Action-Benefit Statements.
- Were you ever promoted?
- Did you ever receive special recognition, honors or awards?
- What distinguishes you from your co-workers?
- Have you ever made recommendations to your previous employers that were implemented?
- Have you ever been responsible for the creation of new policies or procedures?
- Have you done anything to make a process more efficient?
- Were you ever responsible for training or advising a new employee on certain procedures or programs?
- Did previous co-workers ever ask for your advice or opinion on a certain subject?
- What were you constantly praised for by previous managers in past performance evaluations?
- For each job you’ve held, can you list five contributions of which you were most proud?
- What did you value in each job? What about your previous position was rewarding or gratifying?
- What were the best moments in each job?
- What are your greatest strengths or personal characteristics? What is it about your dedication, style of work, or attention to detail that adds value to an organization?
Key Point -- Write so that you give hints and not complete details. You want your prospective employer to contact you in for the interview to learn more! This is critical. Provide examples, situations and stories about your accomplishments and how you have achieved results.
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