{"id":429112,"date":"2018-06-05T20:02:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T20:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essaypaper.org\/using-quantifiable-evidence-throughout-your-resume-2\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T09:16:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:16:01","slug":"using-quantifiable-evidence-throughout-your-resume-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/using-quantifiable-evidence-throughout-your-resume-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Quantifiable Evidence Throughout Your Resume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> June 4, 2018&gt;We\u2019ve all heard the phrase \u201cactions speak louder than words.\u201d Well when it comes to resumes, \u201cnumbers speak louder than words.\u201d When you start changing your resume to be achievement based rather than duty based, a great thing to focus on is quantifiable experience. Wherever possible, try to use numbers in order to make your resume shine.When adding quantifiable experience to your expert resume, always ask yourself \u201cHow Many?\u201d or \u201cHow Much?\u201d for each of the tasks you performed. Obviously you might not be able to do this for every job function but approaching your resume writing this way will help you to develop a strong, quantifiable document. You can do this by including:<strong>Hard Numbers:<\/strong>It\u2019s always best to first think about the number of reports, files, clients, etc that you dealt with in previous jobs. Numbers almost always sound more impressive than generic statements of tasks you performed. If, for example, you worked at a restaurant as a waiter and were a shift leader, you could say it in 2 different ways:\u201cWaited on tables in a high-paced restaurant environment and supervised fellow waiters\u201dOR\u201cWaited on over 50 customers per night in a high-paced restaurant environment and supervised 10 waiters per shift\u201dThe first example tells you, while the second shows you through numbers. Which example sounds more like someone you\u2019d want to hire?<strong>Percentages:<\/strong>Using percentages can be a great way to highlight your achievements and demonstrate your success in previous positions. Percentages can also be helpful when the numbers themselves don\u2019t sound that impressive but compared to what they previously were, they are. For example, if you were in charge of social media at your previous company and increased followers from 300 to 1000, you could either say:\u201cIncreased social media followers by 700\u201dOR\u201cIncreased social media followers by over 300%\u201dBoth are achievement statements but percentages can sometimes sound more impressive than hard numbers or give context to your numbers if employers might not be familiar with examples.<strong>Frequency:<\/strong>You may not realize it but ordinary tasks can sound completely different when you put them into context. Maybe you performed some mediocre tasks in previous positions but at high-volume rates. If you worked at a call-center, for example, answering calls and responding to customer complaints, you could either say:\u201cAnswered incoming calls and responded to customer complaints\u201dOR\u201cManaged incoming calls and responded to over 200 customer complaints per day.\u201dThe second sounds much more impressive.We don\u2019t always realize the achievements we\u2019ve made in our past work experience. Thinking about numbers can help put these achievements into perspective and demonstrate our professional success to employers.Category: Resume services<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 4, 2018&gt;We\u2019ve all heard the phrase \u201cactions speak louder than words.\u201d Well when it comes to resumes, \u201cnumbers speak louder than words.\u201d When you start changing your resume to be achievement based rather than duty based, a great thing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/using-quantifiable-evidence-throughout-your-resume-2\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essay-paper-writing","category-resume-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}