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Get a Great Job When You Don’t Have a Job

CHANGING AN ACCOMPLISHMENT TO A Q STATEMENT
We’re going to use the accomplishments you just listed as a foun-
dation to construct statements that are at the very heart of your
work history.
They are called Q statements, and they usually include num-
bers, percentages, and/or very specific information that appeals to
virtually every employer’s survival instinct.
We’ll come back after the next chapter and turn your pen-
ciled-in accomplishments into Q statements that will reflect not
only what you did, but the results that you produced.
Right now, I hope you’ve created at least one accomplish-
ment and penciled it in. Great! We’re almost finished with your
unique power proposition, something that is essential for your
Fearless Résumé.

• You’ll find that your proposition also has an unmistak-
able “ring” to it when you actually say it in an interview,
or even to someone who may have a job lead for you
in an informal setting.

At this point, don’t worry if you’re thinking to yourself, “I just did
my job. I really don’t have anything that special to say.” Most peo-
ple think that at first.
As you discover more, you’ll feel firsthand that once you learn
how to turn skills into accomplishments and accomplishments
into Q statements, as thousands of people have, your résumé and
your interviewing skills are going to hit the sky, and your confi-
dence, both on paper and in person, is going to soar.
Now, there are a few more optional sentences in your power
proposition. We’ll discuss those next.

Further Sentences
In the last sentences, you can add short phrases or sentences
relating to one or all of the following:

1. Your education, training, certificates, or licenses, or
education that you are still enrolled in. For example,
Masters in Business Administration with an emphasis
in Finance

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