What are the achievements in your career? You can imagine your daily work has a lot of content and manipulation. But most of the end goal is to achieve something that is considered important to the company or business.
What is considered important and meaningful should be described and recorded in your CV so that employers can understand what you have achieved and accomplished?
This is one of the items that usually quite a lot of candidates ignore or don’t pay attention to. It’s really hard for recruiters to know what you’ve achieved at work if you don’t write it down specifically.
The achievement here is not something we do every day. The operations that you perform daily are actually the job contents specified in the Job Description. You cannot describe the results achieved in the course of work when put on the CV by “telling” the results of each event every day.
The more you can’t repeat the same work results in a boring way, the recruiters will feel suffocated or can’t effectively exploit the information you provide because they are duplicates.
Achievements included in your CV should be broken down by your performance cycle, usually by year, or summed up throughout your career at the previous company into a single block. It briefly and succinctly describes what you have achieved in terms of results in your previous job. Through achievements, employers can predict part of your capacity and skills at previous companies.
The perfect cycle for bringing your achievements to a yearly or full-time cycle is based on the business cycle of your previous business. Most businesses will have an annual business cycle such as services, manufacturing, etc.
However, there will be some businesses in industries with longer cycles such as real estate. Also, another factor you should consider is the length of time you worked at the previous business so that you can choose the right time frame to highlight your achievements.
And whether the work you’re doing has any merits listed under the even shorter cycle. For example, monthly salary accounting, quarterly tax accounting, etc.
Achievements should be expressed in numerical language. And it should be measurable results. In fact, what can be measured in terms of numbers gives recruiters a feeling of credibility rather than generic descriptions.
You can imagine the two achievements described “doing full timekeeping and calculating wages for employees” and “doing timekeeping and calculating full wages for 2000 employees per month” would be quite different.
