Using specific numbers and measurements is a great way to impress hiring personnel while also helping you resist the urge to embellish or misrepresent your abilities.
By
using specific numbers and percentages like this in your resume, you show hiring managers what you have accomplished in your career and paint a vivid picture of what you can bring to their companies.
Using specific numbers for accomplishments and duties gives a recruiter a concrete idea of your capabilities.
Are accomplishments explained
using specific numbers, awards, percentages, dollar amounts, etc..?
In the second example,
using specific numbers in your examples and success stories helps recruiters better gauge your experience level and accomplishments.
I'll
use specific numbers to simplify.
They said Bayonetta was the worldwide winner you know... They just
used specific numbers to show her popularity.
Use specific numbers in your resume to quantify things when detailing your projects and experiences.
The below cover letter for a Business Analyst
uses specific numbers («increasing productivity by 20 %, 32 % increase in sales»), instead of vague assurances that productivity increased, as did sales.
Make sure to
use specific numbers you've generated in the past, whether it's how many sales you've garnered or your efficiency at a task in terms of time.
Aside from the fact that this bullet point shows he has some supervisory responsibility,
it uses the specific number of 3 - months.
Use specific numbers and facts to back up your claim.
Not only does the first example contain far more detail, it uses action verbs such as upskilled and
uses specific numbers to describe the number of staff in question and the specific result of the action, an increase in profitability of 15 %.
The second sentence
uses specific numbers to help the reviewer put the claim into a context, and this makes the claim more impressive and easier to remember.
This means that when you're writing your job description and listing your accomplishments you need to
use specific numbers and examples rather than generic descriptions.
Instead of just stating that you were a great employee,
use specific numbers and examples to prove it.
This is especially true when
you use specific numbers and percentages.
Not exact matches
A
number of the users whose accounts were limited after this feature was being tested complained that their free - speech rights were being restricted for no reason, just because they
used a
specific word.
The bottom line is that trust comes from social proof, such as links to testimonials and endorsements,
using known - name customer lists,
specific numbers that show how many people you have worked with, proven results, etc..
The app lets you earn «Sweatcoins,» or points based on the
number of steps you take in a day, which you can then
use to buy a limited
number of
specific goods that Sweatcoin has made available — like a Fitbit tracker, fitness classes, or subscriptions to apps designed to help you eat healthier.
According to a
number of copyright experts, Deadspin's distribution of GIFs of
specific NFL plays would have a strong claim to being fair
use for this reason, despite the fact that the NFL has a financial interest in the content.
Knowing that Tim is a
numbers guy, I pushed further for details on his selection process — was there a
specific financial model he
used to decide where he was going to invest?
Average Daily Trading Volume («ADTV») is a measure of the
number of shares traded per day, averaged over a
specific period of time (we
use 50 days).
Using our StockBrokers.com industry -
specific templates, Confero made 260 phone calls to branch offices and support
numbers across the United States.
Using the HubSpot lead scoring tool, you could score these activities and then create a list of contacts that have a HubSpot score greater than or equal to a
specific number.
Let me show you a really simple technique that you can
use with the previous technique i showed you about
using individual keywords instead of pasting a bunch of keywords and its really a one - click technique to get even more great keywords from the Google Adwords Keyword tool so I've already gone ahead and done a search for «fishing tips» just a single keyword if you didn't see that previous video you want to watch that because that's a really good little tip there i'll put a link in this video so you can click through and see that video
number two in this series but once you've done your search will simply go down here to keyword options click this little pencil icon here and you'll see this option to only show ideas closely related to my search terms now everybody knows about this this year but a lot of people don't take the time to actually
use it so if you simply just click the toggle their turn it on and then hit save what it's going to do is going to only bring back keyword terms that are closely related to «fishing tips» and here's one more hot tip for you it is
specific to singular and plural so for instance if my original see keyword was «fishing tips» and I've selected to only show closely related ideas my results are going to have the word tips plural in them so if I will just take a second and remove that s after i've downloaded the file for «fishing tips» let's do that again «fishing tips» i've downloaded the file all my terms have the word tips in them now come right back up here i remove the s so singular and i search again now i'm going to get back results that have the word tip instead of tips and then because i have only show closely related ideas now just to show you a sample what will happen when you do that you remember this is the file i showed you in the previous video and you'll remember from that video that our competitors because they're just pasting in a bunch of keywords and hitting search they're getting back 706 results for this sample test here so they would get 706 keywords and that's what they would take off with them and start to decide which what pages they want to make for seo or how they want to set the pay - per - click campaign ok we're
using these other methods taking a few extra seconds to really understand how the Google Adwords Keyword tool works and with this new method of both
using singular and plural but selecting only show closely related ideas we now have for the exact same keywords we have 2867 keywords we got back so we're walking away with 2867 keywords our competitor for the very saying input terms is only getting 706 we're getting four times as many keywords for the Google Adwords Keyword Tool you can take this information and you can
use it to really grow your business because there's some really excellent keywords that your competitors are overlooking simply because they don't understand how to
use the Google Adwords Keyword tool so this has been helpful for you once you've
used the google keyword planner to find lots of new keyword ideas what do you do with all those keywords the biggest problem is that you can there's so many keyword tools out there you can get hundreds of thousands of keywords by spending a day
using the different keyword tools but what you do with all that information the answer is a cool tool called keyword grouper pro and keyword grouper pro is completely free there's not even an opt - in you simply download the tool now at the top of this video there's a link if you click that i'll show you exactly how to
use keyword grouper pro it doesn't matter where you got your keywords from i'm going to show you how to take those keywords group them into tight groups and then you can set up your campaigns know exactly which groups represent buyers and once you know where the buyers are at you can simply focus your marketing in that area to make more profit in your business
As Varun Bhanot, PR and business development lead at UK flexible workspace marketplace Hubble, explained: «Here at Hubble, we've had a
number of corporations approach us for
specific coworking space — some to
use as a separate department arm for their company, others to set up a
specific innovation lab to work on bleeding edge products.»
Unity of view which can be the source of legislation must be attained through the
use of methods of thinking and investigation which have been approved as valid; it must be reached by a limited
number of men from among all classes of the nation, whose qualifications for the
use of the approved methods are recognized; the views of all the qualified men must be ascertained; and unanimous agreement on a
specific ruling must be sought.
(Fat, carbs, fiber, and protein content, to be more
specific) I follow a diet plan that factors in these
numbers and I'd love to be able to
use your recipes!
A
number of organic stakeholder groups — including organic dairy associations in the Northeast and other traditional milk - shed states — urged USDA to add
specific enforcement criteria for the
use of pasture.
Go with your own
numbers if you're
using specific brands and know the carb counts of them.
While researchers continue to look for the concussion «holy grail» in the form of
specific impact thresholds above which concussions are highly likely and / or the
number of impacts or the magnitude of impacts per week or per season that substantially increase the risk of long term brain injury, impact sensor technology is available right now to do what we can to reduce total brain trauma by
using impact data to identify kids who need more coaching so they can learn how to tackle and block without
using their helmets.
Filled with activities to help you practice colors,
numbers, letters, and shapes, you'll be able to quickly and easily supplement any curriculum you are currently
using to review
specific skills or
use the bundle as a whole to enjoy hands - on learning ideas all year long!
Set on an unnamed Caribbean island, the book teaches children how to count by
using pages filled with a
specific number of items.
Parenting Ideas collects non-personal information in aggregate form to track data such as (but not limited to), the total
number of visits to our Service, the
number of visits to
specific areas of our Service, the sources of referral to our Service, and devices
used to access our Service.
Food service managers
used order guides for
specific foods and recipe ingredients and projected amounts needed based on the anticipated
number of servings of each menu item.
You can host a playgroup for a
specific age - range (e.g. non-mobile babies, one - year olds, young toddlers, etc.), and you may also limit the
number of attendees by
using the RSVP feature on our members - only website.
To make this
specific to our family I only wrote exercises
using even
numbers.
Specific Gravity of Mature Human Milk = 1.031, so Density of Mature Human Milk ~ 1.031 g / ml; 1 oz = 29.6 ml;
Numbers in gray were derived
using the above conversion factors.
Brady said LI Cleantech's analysis projected it would create more jobs, although he provided no
specific numbers, through commercial
uses such as retail compared with Talon's proposal.
Those vehicles alone likely generated about $ 200,000, though an exact
number is difficult to determine because
specific data on E-ZPass
use was not available.
Researchers have tried lamprey -
specific poisons to control their
numbers, but more out - of - the - box ideas include
using artificial lamprey pheromones to lure them to their doom, and designing a birth control drug that would only affect female lampreys.
It utilizes
specific, immobilized probes that can be interrogated
using DNA from normal and diseased sources, providing a wealth of information on copy
number changes throughout the genome at much finer resolution than has been previously achievable.
Traditionally, researchers
used visible traits, such as pod
number, to select crop varieties that grow well in
specific environments.
«Our strategy is to prepare a
number of sets of virus -
specific cells ahead of time and store them in a freezer, ready to
use when a patient needs them,» Omer said.
By identifying
specific sexual behaviors, such as the
number of sex partners a man has and whether he
uses protection, officials get a much more accurate picture of whether a donor should be considered a high risk for HIV transmission.
It is the
number one cause of systemic antibiotic
use, which floods the whole body with antibiotics rather than just a
specific region, said Rodrigo Bicalho, assistant professor of dairy production medicine at the College of Veterinary Medicine.
Such a
number should not simply be established by a context -
specific number creeping into wider
use.»
Selective immunoproteasome inhibition
using the inhibitor ONX 0914 reduced the
number of B cells and plasma cells and suppressed donor -
specific allo - antibody production.
They add that by
using this comparison the model quantifies expertise — or the value of expert judgments — as being equal to a
specific number of data points collected in the field.