WOW! - week 3

The word of the week this week is:
ACCOMPLISHMENT - noun meaning something you have achieved, something you are proud of, something you completed after great effort.

This is a very important word for people who are job hunting or who want to take a proactive approach to their career.

Experts say that resumes should be accomplishment driven. In other words, don't let your resume be a list of your responsibilities. Make it a list of your accomplishments. To be able to do this, you have to keep track of your accomplishments. Get in the habit of entering everything you succeed at in a file.

Some experts advise the use of a special format for your accomplishment descriptions.
This is called C.A.R. - Challenge.Action.Result.
For example: Our new product was not selling well. (Challenge). I went out to talk to our customers.(Action). It turned out they did not like the purple colour so we made it in green and tripled our sales .(Result).

The next step is to decide what this story says about you. It might show that you are an independent thinker and action-oriented.
Now you can use this in your resume and have it ready to tell when an interviewer asks you if you are action-oriented.

To take this a step further, I recommend that when you have written several accomplishments, cut up the paper and put each one in a jar. when you have a spare minute, take one out and practice it. Check your pronunciation with a native English speaker.