From the course: Writing a Resume
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How to use achievements on your resume
From the course: Writing a Resume
How to use achievements on your resume
- What have you achieved in your career? And did you create anything? Implement a new procedure? Save your company money? Maybe you made them money. Were you top in sales? The best in recruiting? Promoted frequently? Or asked to lead a project? A great way to show your achievements is with a bullet point or two at the beginning or the end of your professional experience. In the exercise files you'll find an example of how to do this. A caveat to this is that if you don't have enough achievements to add this to each of the jobs on your resume, you're better off taking those achievements and moving them into your summary of qualifications. Or if they are spectacular enough to warrant their own section, you could add an actual section labeled achievements, below your summary of qualifications, but above your professional experience. If you work in sales this is a far easier job to provide examples of achievements…
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