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Part 2 ➤ Six Steps to a Perfect Resume

supervision. However, she wanted to get a job as a corporate trainer. So she prioritized her
achievement statements to stress the training experience, even though it was not her pri-
mary responsibility.

Bonus Check

After you’ve listed your achievement statements, prioritize them within each section so
that the most relevant and most impressive achievement appears first.

The following order reflects the amount of time Andrea spent on each achievement:

• Supervised administration of firm’s largest litigation department with more than 300
cases per week.
• Led office to achieve “#1 Team” award by motivating staff to take a customer service
approach to all internal and external interactions.
• Trained 13 employees on new automated accounting system, providing classroom
sessions, individual coaching, and written instructions.
This order reflects which achievements are most important to Andrea’s job goal:

• Trained 13 employees on new automated accounting system, providing classroom
sessions, individual coaching, and written instructions.
• Led office to achieve “#1 Team” award by motivating staff to take a customer service
approach to all internal and external interactions.
• Supervised administration of firm’s largest litigation department with more than 300
cases per week.

The order in which you list your achievements should indicate what tasks you like best and
which ones you wish most to perform on your next job.

Bonus Check
When listing items within an achievement statement, prioritize those items so that the
most relevant one comes first. When listing them in a column, list them either according
to relevance or alphabetically.

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