- It is in the Employment History Section of the resume where you need to describe the jobs you have worked on for the past fifteen years. For each job you have held, you will briefly describe Company Business, the Project and your Role. The sentences that follow should emphasize your responsibilities, what you did, for your employer. The first sentence is called the impact statement, because it should make an impact on how a potential employer will view your resume.
The impact statement is your strongest result or accomplishment. When an employer scans your resume quickly, the first statement is the one that is read most often.
This statement can be something you alone achieved or you achieved working on a team.
The impact statement and other responsibility sentences should begin with an Action or Skill verb. (Use the Action or Skill Verbs page to select the best action word(s) to describe what you did)
Use the following questions to assist you in writing the impact statement:
What did you do?
Over what period of time?
What impact did your accomplishment have on the department, company, city, state, etc?
How did you or your result
- increase performance?
- add to profits?
- save time?
- increase knowledge?
- decrease errors?
- save money?
Designed, developed and implemented a new payroll system, affecting 2200 employees. Payroll is processed now in two days instead of three, accuracy is up 2%, with a savings of $38,000 a year.
Introduced technology that reduced accounting's time requirements for month-end close of books from seven days to two days. This process was subsequently adopted by the company's three satellite offices.
Re-designed a management inventory software program that eliminated three days of costly and time-consuming inventory counts done monthly.
Within two weeks after being hired, resolved chronic computer crashes that had plagued the company for over a year. Traced the problem to vendor software.
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