One of the simplest and most helpful ways to ensure you add and
quantify accomplishments in the career history section of your CV is to use action verbs.
Veterans who succeed in making their military experience relevant to civilian
employers quantify their accomplishments and eschew military jargon and acronyms in favor of lay terms, often with the help of resources provided by the 100,000 Jobs Mission (which just doubled its goal and aims to hire 200,000 veterans by 2020), Hiring Our Heroes program, and similar organizations.
Quantifying your accomplishments also helps you stand out from others who do the work you do — whether you're using the information for a raise or promotion request, or when seeking a new job opportunity.
• Use some uncommon yet powerful action words to describe your experiences •
Quantify your accomplishments wherever possible • Replace your objective with a career summary • Illustrate how you can benefit the hiring organization with your potential and skills
The focus of the workshop is to help my customers 1) formulate a strategy, 2) position themselves through a Summary / Personal Profile, and 3) sell themselves to the employer by
showing quantified accomplishments.
Use
of quantified accomplishments will help you avoid succumbing to what Dib calls «the responsibilities trap,» where job duties are described in detail, but there is little evidence of specific outcomes provided.