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Accomplishments - The Foundation of an Effective Resume
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1. What is special about the way you do your job?

2. What do you do in a different way or better than other people in the same position as you?

3. What does your employer like about you and/or praise you for?

4. Were there particular areas in which your employer thought you were outstanding?

5. Were you given any special honors, recognition, or awards? What did you do to earn it?

6. What positive things do your performance appraisals have to say about you?

7. When you were hired, was there a lot of competition for the position? Why were you selected?

8. In what ways is each of your past employers better off for having had you work for them?

9. Does your company set goals or objectives for you and have you met or exceeded them? Explain.

10. Have you met any particularly hard-to-accomplish goals? How did you accomplish this?

11. Were you hired to meet a particular challenge or solve a particular problem? What was it, what have you done to meet those expectations, and what have been the outcomes?

12. What was the biggest problem or challenge you were faced with in each position? Did you solve the problem or meet the challenge? How and what were the results?

13. Did you ever have to overcome any adversity or ambiguity to accomplish something important to the company? Explain. How did you do it and what were the results?

14. Have you ever made any suggestions that were implemented? What was the result?

15. What have you done that was innovative? What was the result?

16. Have you helped to influence change in your company? In what way? What was the result?

17. Have you been given any special assignments? Why and what were they?

18. Have you helped your employer increase sales? By what percentage or amount?

19. Have you helped streamline operations in any way? In what way and what was the result?

20. Did you generate new business? By what percentage or amount?

21. Did you bring in new clients? By what percentage or number?

22. Did you build partnerships or affiliations with new organizations? What have been the results?

23. Have you led your company into expanded markets? By what percentage and how did this impact sales?

24. Have you opened new markets for your company? What was the impact?

25. Did you save your company money? How much and under what circumstances?

26. Have you ever developed a new system or process? Was it implemented? If so, what were the results?

27. Did you improve customer relationships in some way? Under what circumstances and what were the results?

28. Have you done anything to increase efficiency? How did you do it and what were the results?

29. Did you meet a particularly aggressive or important deadline? If so, what difference did this make to your company?

30. Have you ever developed procedures to speed repetitive tasks? What were the results?

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Certified resume writer and personal branding strategist, Michelle Dumas is the director of Distinctive Career Services LLC. Through Distinctive Documents http://www.distinctiveweb.com and her Executive VIP Services http://www.100kcareermarketing.com Michelle has empowered thousands of professionals all across the U.S. and worldwide. Michelle is also the author of 101 Before-and-After Resume Examples http://www.before-and-after-resumes.com

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