Career Article 155:
Tips for Completing the Work History Section of Your Résumé

By Tamara Dowling, CPRW

It is important to quantify your achievements, and to use details to demonstrate how you did it.

How many employees reported to you?

What amount of dollars or percentage of growth, or amount of savings are you responsible for generating?

What problems did you solve? Did you take a department that was failing and turn it around? How did you do it?

Have you been in a corporate change or crisis situation? What did you do to facilitate its success?

How did you add value to the company? Did you introduce a new product or service? Did you increase sales? Did you implement a new process, technology or design?

Show the reader how you were successful. Use these details to paint a picture in the reader's mind.