Hi, everyone, this is Rebecca. And now we're going to learn about making your achievements baked. This is the second part of the course, we have seven parts that we're going to go over. So we already learned how to do your header, your executive summary. Now we're going to learn how to make your achievements look big under each job that you had. So you're going to list them in a certain order and using a certain technique.

So I'm going to go over this with you now let me share my screen with you. Alright, so there you go. Making it attractive to recruiters is, like I said, First, executive summary. Probably the most important part of your resume, I think the most important part, then the second most important part, it comes right after the description. So it's the description of each job that you had. Okay, so we're going to go over this right now.

Making your achievements big and your impact on the bottom line, everything that you talk about in terms of achievements has to have has to be tied to the bottom line. This is how you're going to list them. So you're going to list them under each role that you have. And you're going to start with the most recent roll, going down to the oldest job that you've performed. You are going to add the date was months, not just here, and you go down in that order. Okay, so if there's any job that you don't want to list, you you I mean, because some of you have a lot of experience, and maybe you don't want to list all of the jobs that you've occupied in your career, or maybe there are gaps that you want to cover.

If you have any specific questions around this, please contact me and let's discuss this because maybe you need a more customized approach. Everything that you write has to be you know, in bullet points and it has to start with a verb simple past tense and I have some examples for you in page 27, we'll go over them together so that you don't run out of things to say. You want to mention everything that you brought in in terms of revenue, anything that you saved in terms of you know, money, quantifiable achievements are so crucial. Nothing that is not quantifiable in here. Okay? So don't repeat achievements.

So maybe you had the same job. You know, in a row, you you had probably didn't change titles recently, or maybe you did, but I just don't want to see repeated achievements, you know, under different jobs. Okay, if you if you are to do that, you might as well just leave it blank. Don't use acronyms because the recruiter is not supposed to know all the acronyms that you are familiar with. Don't assume that they know them. It's just gonna make their work a little bit more difficult, so make it easy for the recruiter to understand what is it that you did.

And mentioned any onboarding that you've performed any training, anything that you did on a sort of volunteer basis, it was like an extra mile. It wasn't necessarily in your job description. So mentioned that as well. any distinction, any recognition and your award, I want to see it in there. So when you're listing those achievements, make sure to use this little technique. When you describe a situation or a task.

You have to explain what action you took, and how that impacted the bottom line in a quantifiable way, what result you achieved, and ideally, it has to be impactful. So these are the verbs that I recommend you use when you start the sentence. So you could say for example, call Ed instead of collaborated. That looks a lot better. You could say money Instead of simply coordinated, you could say developed, negotiated, undertook, acted as a liaison officer, for example, some people are doing a lot more than just their job. And you want to write it down, you know, maybe you're an office manager and you're doing events, then you want to write down that you acted as an event manager during that role that you had.

So or, you know, here in this case, acted as a marketing manager or whatever Extra Mile that you took on, carried out, drafted, reviewed, guided, insured, oversaw, lay laid the foundation, engaged, pioneered, conducted, determined aligned to these are really great verbs to start the description of whatever it is you did, I really recommend you use them integration assessed, facilitated, participated, contributed co planned, co organized. So instead of just saying that you assisted you could say you call plan you call organized you were a partner in this, achieving this event or this meeting you. You could say lunch, you could say architecture instead of simply saying I organized, you could say architectures, the whole frame for this agreement or this meeting or this event, designed instead of simply prepared, supported, structured, elaborated, drove, delivered, held responsible for so and so. identified, positioned, maintained. Because maybe you didn't achieve anything spectacular, but you maintained you were able to At least not allow things to go south, right?

So, revamped, created, rebuilt, executed, refrained, achieved, improved, expanded, established, maybe you establish new processes, new business processes, defined, validated, demonstrated, escalated. So sometimes you have to escalate matters to a higher level in the company. So you want to add that introduced, you know, new concepts leveraged on, I don't know, client engagement for example, realigned, calibrated processes, and optimized and conceived. So these are words that I like to see in the description of your achievements, right under the jobs that you have occupied examples. So here's an example. You have the name of the company, the city, the country, the dates with months, right under, you have the title in bold.

And then in this case, this person was promoted to new title. So you can add that in there if you have been promoted within the same company. So here, quantifiable achievements managed 40 plus projects, that's definitely quantifiable. You see, down in the last line when she's explaining that she developed stronger project proposals, that's quantifiable enough. I mean, it's not measurable, but it's better than nothing. Okay, so this is definitely something that I think could inspire you if you want to explain your achievements in a way that is elegant and convincing.

So the next example here I have is a product manager and assistant project manager. Again, the name of the company, the dates and The title in bold, delivered on the volume objective of 2 million cases, that's very quantifiable. And you can see that she developed an interactive training video. So this is a big achievement to train on board to build capabilities within the company. And she received an award in recognition of her work, I want you to mention any award any procedures, you know, any recognition, any, anything that you did here that will show people you went the extra mile clearly. Another example here is Product Manager.

So you see here he is saying that he delivered double digit growth. So that's definitely quantifiable. Another thing that he's saying is that he saved 25% in terms of spending, so cost saving, also very quantifiable and very welcome. So this is something a hiring manager wouldn't be very happy to read. And then there's again coaching and mentoring and the last, the last line five direct reports, interns, that the person coached or mentored or trained on boarded. This is something that you definitely want to highlight.

Make sure everything you write in terms of achievement is tied to the bottom line, all the tasks, all the outcomes, they have to be measurable, quantifiable to the very maximum of your capability relevant, of course, it has to be relevant to what you are to the title that you occupied. If you worked a lot more than you should have, and you perform the job of two people. That's, that's something that you should mention in terms of like impacting the bottom line, you know, you basically saved maybe you know, a year of salary to the company. Because they didn't have to hire another person, since they made you work, double shift, right. So that's a way to impact the bottom line. If you created any process, if you bettered any system, if you made sure to simplify, you know, bureaucratic bureaucracy, or maybe you were able to create synergies in a way that impacted the way business was done, and made it faster, more efficient.

So this is something you want to mention as well, and also mentioned that even though you might have been gone from that role, or that company, your work remains. So that system that you've put in place, is still operational is still being used by people even though you left. I think that's really worth mentioning. Okay. I want you to keep in mind that your achievements don't have to be insanely great. Like I said, maybe You worked for two, maybe you created a faster way to delivering a certain result a certain product.

And maybe you think this is not a big deal, but you have to please mention it. Don't downplay, it has to be tied to the bottom line. But you know, if you didn't save millions to the company, but simply you saved time, that's money that's quantifiable, or you saved in terms of resources. You know, before we needed two people to approve this. Now, we just need one person so it saves people time, and it makes things more effective for everyone. So I want you to make sure to mention how how, you know, profitable you actually are for the company.

This is something recruiters and hiring managers are going to be very happy to read. So the next section is going to be about getting past the filters in the screenings. I will see you On the other side, thank you