Documenting Accomplishments in Your Career Search

Can you remember what you accomplished earlier today? What about yesterday? How about ten months ago? It is very difficult to recall what has been accomplished over the past year without reminders. In the moment, it is hard to believe we can forget such a stellar accomplishment.

Unfortunately, we often forget the most important ones when we are pressed to list our accomplishments for a performance review or job interview or award application. By creating a system for collecting your accomplishments, they are there when you need to share them or compile them for your review. They become easily accessible and easy to recall.

Accomplishments don’t just happen at work. Your personal, volunteer and educational accomplishments can also have an impact on your work, performance review or job interview. Completing a degree program is a large accomplishment that may not have been financially supported by your employer, but will now support a raise or promotion. Managing a team of 30 volunteers in a non-profit organization will certainly hone your abilities to manage a larger group of employees at the office.

Completing a marathon demonstrates your ability to aim high and work toward a long-term goal. Making a presentation to your child’s class about the work you do provides a company valuable marketing exposure. Every child may tell their parents about your presentation or the teacher may share throughout his or her network.

Accomplishments are much too valuable to be simply forgotten when most needed in a job search.

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