ResumeWritingAcademy.com 2012
As professional resume writers, we all know that a great deal of a resumes effectiveness is based on accomplishments - what a job seek has done to improve operations, increase revenues, strengthen bottom-line profits, reduce operating costs, enhance business processes, upgrade technologies, and so much more. And, we also know, one of the most difficult tasks can be identifying those accomplishments when clients cannot easily articulate them.
To help you you become even more effective in identifying your clients' achievements, I've outlined key areas of accomplishments for 13 different professions. Use this information as a guideline when you're interviewing your clients, digging deep to uncover their accomplishments and showcase them in their resumes.
To identify your clients' achievements, begin by asking these questions:
ACCOUNTING & FINANCE: It's all about the money!
- Improvements in revenues, profits, ROI, EBITDA, and other financial measurements
- Negotiation of contracts including dollar amounts, profits, cost savings, and more
- Partner relationships with investors, pension plan administrators, board of directors, auditors, and others
- Introduction of automated tools, programs, and systems to enhance efficiency
- Contributions to improved operations, cost reductions, and overall performance improvements
- VIP and executive responsibilities and relationships
- Top industry rankings for quality of customer service organization
- Contributions to sales growth
- Key account management responsibilities and results
- Project planning, management, staffng, leadership, and financial success
- Engineering/design of new products and processes and their positive financial impact on the organization
- Integration of advanced technologies to expedite engineering and expand capabilities
- Leadership of and contributions to strategic planning and long-term business development
- Recruitment and leadership of successful management teams (and their contributions)
- Success in expanding into new markets, new geographic regions, new countries and more
- Positive impact on quality of care and quality of patient outcomes
- Expansion of health care services, programs, and outreach to meet patient needs
- Reduction in disease incidence and overall health improvement of targeted patient base
- Creation of expatriate recruitment, training, employee support, and related programs
- Improvements in traditional employee benefits and reduction in premium costs
- Success in recruiting personnel and their performance within the organization
- Establishing legal precedents
- Managing prestigious cases and clients
- Relationships with regulatory, legislative, judicial, and other agencies/organizations
- Increase in production yield and output, worker productivity, and other performance measurements
- Seamless introduction of new products into existing manufacturing plants and favorable financial results
- Implementation of new technologies, robotics, and other automated processes, systems, and equipment
- Distinction for merchandise design and display (including sales results)
- Departmental staffing and management responsibilities, and quantifiable results
- Increases in revenues, profits, and market share
- Development of new territories and new markets
- Introduction of new products and services (and results)
- Capture of new key accounts and revenue streams
- Measurement of student/learner performance and achievement
- Development of new curricula and instructional programs
- Experience in training and developing other teaching staff
- Development of new technologies and their organization/operational/market impact
- Success in systems migration, conversion, integration, and more
- Patent awarded and/or pending
