When crafting your resume, you should explain to hiring managers how your successes directly benefited your employers. The following sales manager did a nice job of quantifying her contributions:

"ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Implemented a new lead-generation system during my first month on the job, leading to a 200 percent increase in sales over the prior fiscal year."

How can you quantify your achievements? Begin by converting sentences that merely describe your duties to statements that highlight how your efforts boosted the bottom line. Consider cost savings, improvements in productivity and time saved. If you're struggling to think of work-related achievements, jog your memory by reviewing performance appraisals, written commendations from managers and letters of recommendation you have on file.

The following candidates zeroed in on the wrong feats:

"ACHIEVEMENTS: Accomplishment from working in a school system: I survived."

That's entirely the wrong attitude.

"ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Passed first round of VH1's World Series of Pop Culture."

The most popular person at the water cooler.

If you've been in the work force for many years, don't list achievements from your high-school years, as the following job seeker did:

"ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Won coach's award for extra effort in cross-country."

A candidate who really does go the extra mile.

This confusing example could be read in two very different ways:

"ACCOMPLISHMENTS: Achieved the highest career strikeouts."

She's either a record-setting softball pitcher or a poor employee.

Finally, make sure that every "achievement" merits a mention.

"EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS: Maintained a 2.0 GPA."

We can't "C" why you highlighted this fact.

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