Accomplishment Statements: Examples for Your Resume

Overview:

Never write your job duties on your resume. Instead, succinctly state   your accomplishments. What did you do on the job that made you a high-quality employee?

Here are some sample accompishment statements to get you thinking about your own.

Description:

QUANTITY

Developed a sales strategy that directly increased customer base by 20%.

Redesigned the production line, increasing daily output by 2,000 units.

Developed a training program that contributed to a 35% reduction in errors.

Entered 15 new markets, increasing market share.

Developed a safety program that reduced accident fines by 15%.

QUALITY

Successfully conducted a presentation for key project stakeholders. Unsolicited feedback was overwhelmingly positive.

Designed a new training program that resulted in an improvement in evaluations from 3.2 to 4.8 on a 5-point scale.

Implemented a new employee benefit program. Over 90% of the employees identified the changes as improvements.

Hired a new printing firm that improved quality of the marketing materials.

Designed a user-friendly operations manual that is currently being used by employees.

Reorganized a tracking system that improved document retrieval.

Made product design changes resulting in fewer rejects.

PRODUCTIVITY

Automated a claim processing system that reduced the turnaround time from two weeks to two days.

Implemented a new phone system that reduced average answering speed from eight minutes to less than one minute.

Completed the project ahead of schedule.

Developed and introduced a unique product that was the first in the marketplace.

COST / REVENUE

Negotiated a contract that saved the department over $500,000.

Reduced overhead by 30%.

Developed a new product that increased quarterly revenue by $50,000.

Turned a troubled operation around from a negative $238,000 to a positive $1,570,000.

Increased sales over 40%.

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Date added:

Thursday, 18 Jun 2009