Your Achievement Resume Converts Your Experience Into Client Benefits
Your achievement resume outlines your achievements and tells potential clients how they can benefit from your experience.Resumes..Good Better & The Best
A resume is a brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience.
For job-seekers, a resume summarizes and presents their past work experience as qualifications for a new job.
Employers will use a resume as a tool to assess a candidate's ability to perform a job to be filled.
A good resume details an individual's job history.
Better resumes detail specific skills and experience that individuals gained while performing various job functions.
The best resumes summarize an individual's achievements...and suggests how these achievement can benefit potential employers.
This type of resume might be called an achievement resume which contains two key elements:
- a brief written account of your achievements
- suggestions as to how employers can benefit from your experience
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4 Steps
To
Preparing Your Resume
As
powerful a
marketing too as it may be, preparing your achievement resume is not
a difficult tasks. The simplest approach is to divide the task in 4 sub-tasks or steps.
Step 1: What Are Your Major Achievements?
This
step involves
making as comprehensive list as possible of all of your significant
achievements.
As long as an individual accomplishment meets your definition of achievement, include it in your list.
When compiling your list, be sure to include achievements from such areas as:
As long as an individual accomplishment meets your definition of achievement, include it in your list.
When compiling your list, be sure to include achievements from such areas as:
- training and education
- work activities
- personal achievements
- social and community service
Step 2: How Did You Achieve These Results?
What
personal skills
and talents did you employ to achieve these results?
What other resources did you employ to achieve these results?
What other resources did you employ to achieve these results?
Step 3: How Can Potential Clients Benefit From Your Achievements?
The best
achievements are those that can be duplicated for your own benefit or
the benefit of others.
Review your achievements to identify those accomplishments that meet the following criteria:
Review your achievements to identify those accomplishments that meet the following criteria:
- can be duplicated
- can benefit you
- can benefit clients
Once
you have
finished this review, prioritize your achievements based on the above
the criteria.
The absolute best..i.e. top priority...achievements are those that you can duplicate and which can benefit clients by meeting specific needs and wants.
The absolute best..i.e. top priority...achievements are those that you can duplicate and which can benefit clients by meeting specific needs and wants.
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Step 4: Putting It All Together
Once
you have
identified your top 5-10 achievements, list reword them so they start
with a specific client benefit, which will be followed by details of
your achievement.
For example instead of saying:
"I have been an interior designer for more than 10 years. I can help you decorate your home."
Say something like:
"You will enjoy a uniquely designed home environment...just as I have helped more than 100 people personalize their homes to reflect their own tastes and preferences. "
Instead of simply
using the
title 'Achievement
Resume' try a headline such as “How You Too Can
Benefit From My Achievements'
Prospective clients will me more interested in learning about how you can hekp than them than reading what appears to be your self-serving bragging.
Try to keep your resume to two pages or less.
For example instead of saying:
"I have been an interior designer for more than 10 years. I can help you decorate your home."
Say something like:
"You will enjoy a uniquely designed home environment...just as I have helped more than 100 people personalize their homes to reflect their own tastes and preferences. "
Instead of simply
using the
title 'Achievement
Resume' try a headline such as “How You Too Can
Benefit From My Achievements' Prospective clients will me more interested in learning about how you can hekp than them than reading what appears to be your self-serving bragging.
Try to keep your resume to two pages or less.
Once you have completed your achievement resume, not only will it supplement your personal profile, it will serve as a valuable addition to your marketing communications.
To learn more about identifying your achievements, see Chapter Three, of How To Achieve Better Marketing Results...Sooner.
Take a minute and look back at your achievements.
Based on your experience, what is your best tip for achieving your desired results? Click here to share your tip with others.
If you would like some help developing your achievement resume, I would be happy to help by coaching you through the process.
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