Building Success Stories
Accomplishment summaries/success stories are key factors in the career search. They should be incorporated both on your resume as well as for use during the interview process. This process will enable you to truly identify the strengths that you would like to sell about yourself as well as continue to build on and utilize in future positions. In addition it adds a level of confidence during the interview process, as you should be able to fall back on these stories to help you talk through different questions and/or situations that arise during the interview.Success Stories in a “Nutshell”!
One-page summaries of key accomplishments you have achieved throughout your career. These summaries should include a powerful descriptive title, a brief description of the problem or situation, a bulleted list of your actions, and a two-or three-sentence quantitative summary of the results. You should develop at least ten of these summaries for use in different situations, but typically you would use three to five summaries on your resume.
Example:
“Created and implemented credit and collections policies, reducing collection times by one-third for international import firm. By implementing credit application procedures as well as collection policies, we were able to project weekly and monthly income and collections data. This in turn resulted in a recovery of $XX,XXX in legal and back collections.”