Saturday, March 13, 2010

How To Set Your Cv On Fire With Astonishing Accomplishment Statements

our accomplishment statements is probably the most important part of your CV because they tell employers that you've done before what they want to hire you to do and you can do it again, even better. But most jobseekers completely leave out their accomplishments in their CVs and in its place bore employers with their previous job responsibilities. What a big mistake. It's time to turn things around. It's time to set your CV on fire by packing it full with powerful accomplishment statements. Here's how to go about it. List your previous work experiences. Under each position, list the problems you were faced with that you were directly or even indirectly responsible for the solution. Then write the steps you took, the things you initiated, the policies you formulated that solved the problem. No, you're not done yet. Reveal the impact your solution made and quantify it. Okay, let me illustrate. Let's assume you were the traffic manager of www.blablabla.com. You faced the problem of low traffic to the site. To solve the problem, you analyzed the stats on the site and saw that visitors don't stay for long on the site and don't come back, that there is nothing to capture the contacts of visitors and get back to them. You also discovered that there is no traffic plan. So, what did you do? You outsourced the site's content, designed a winning traffic plan, and packaged a free e-course as an incentive to capture visitors' contact. You designed visitors' follow-up system. You implemented everything and traffic soared by almost 500% in less than 1 month. And the impact? The site's product was sold out making the company $3 million. So how do you present this in your CV? Here are several ways … * Designed and implemented winning traffic plan that attracted over 1,000 visitors per day -- a 500% increase in one month! * Analyzed site statistics and designed a follow-up system that resulted in a 500% increase in traffic in one month! * Made company $3 million in one month by driving the highest highly targeted traffic in the company's history! I can go and on, but I hope you grab the concept. Those are better than the boring "Responsible for driving traffic" that most jobseekers will riddle their CVs with. It begs the question, "So what?" Now that you know, go ahead and set your CV on fire by packing it full with astonishing accomplishment statements. You'll succeed!

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