(recognizes a characteristic that has become a career pattern)
My ultimate goal is to be head of a department. For the past six years, I've been in education, helping teachers and their students. For the first 20 years, I worked in television news, believing in the people's right to know. I have learned that my role is to do work that makes a difference in people's lives. We did such a great job and made the functions so much more efficient that the vendor recognized us with its Certificate for Management's Commitment for Successful Implementation and Design Contribution to Improve Efficiencies.įollowing are sample stories that demonstrate skills, abilities, values, and knowledge that employers seek: By customizing reports to track labor and benefits allocation, we also cut time spent on reports by a quarter. Since we've operationalized it, the company has saved time in scheduling employees and resolving timesheet-related issues in fact, these processes take half the time they used to. Under my guidance, we got the vendor's system online so successfully that we reduced payroll discrepancies by 25 percent. We were on a tight, two-month deadline, but I led the team to surpass not only the deadline, but the results. When management decided to go with an outside vendor for the new system, they chose me to head up the project team.
We needed a system, preferably online, that would make these tasks more efficient, save time, and reduce errors. My company was struggling with scheduling employees, monitoring their time and attendance, as well as tying these elements into payroll. Still more detailed version, composed in a conversational style, for job interviews, as in this example:.The icing on the cake was earning the vendor's Certificate for Management's Commitment for Successful Implementation and Design Contribution to Improve Efficiencies. Not only did we crush our two-month deadline, but we also reduced payroll discrepancies, slashed in half the time spent scheduling employees and resolving timesheet-related issues, and cut time spent on reports. I demonstrated my strong project-management skills when the project team I led exceeded all expectations when we implemented an outside vendor's system for online scheduling, time/attendance, and payroll. Note that a cover letter should not rehash the resume, so even if you are highlighting the same accomplishment in both documents, vary your language and the way you frame the story: In the following example, the same story is told in paragraph form in the job-seeker's cover letter. More detailed paragraph version for your cover letters.Earned vendor's Certificate for Management's Commitment for Successful Implementation and Design Contribution to Improve Efficiencies.Decreased time spent on reports by 25 percent by customizing reports to track labor/benefits allocation.Reduced payroll discrepancies 25 percent and time spent scheduling employees and resolving timesheet-related issues by 50 percent.Beat two-month deadline for operationalizing online scheduling, time/attendance, and payroll system by overseeing fast-track implementation from outside vendor.Because a resume needs to attract attention quickly, it's a good idea to tell each story so that the result comes first, as in the following bullets about a job-seeker's accomplishment: Short bullet-point version for your resume.Stories of various lengths and containing varying amounts of detail for each element of your job search:
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Job-seekers need to know how to develop stories about skills, abilities, expertise, personal traits and characteristics, values, and accomplishments.
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