Incorporating an Employers Praise in Your Résumé

Incorporating an Employers Praise in Your RsumIncorporating an Employers Praise in Your RsumIts hard to promote yourself in person, let alone on paper, without sounding like a narcissist. But its necessary, and there are ways to do it that wont make you sound like a braggart. It is extremely important to use quantitative metrics to describe your achievements to make you stand out. Hiring managers want to know that you increased satisfaction, reduced costs or improved efficiency (and want to see numbers to prove it). But those are your claims the hiring manger must decide to accept or not how about words from the mouths of your colleagues? This is why special recognition needs to be on yourrsumtoo. Otherwise, how will a hiring manager knowthat others think youre a star employee? The first thing you should do is collect this information. It will take a good chunk of time to dig into your past work history, but if you set up a system you wont have to spend time in the future going ba ck to find it once more. Email folder Create a new folder in your work inbox to file all kudos, recognition and compliments that you receive via email.File folder Create a workfolder on your personal drive where you can keep performance appraisals. If you prefer to keep emails here too, you can save them by selecting save as_file.Word or Excel document Pick your favorite program and create a table withcolumns for the following a description of the project you worked on for which you received compliments or an award, dates and the specific recognition you received (such as thename of the award or word-for-word compliment). Put this document in your new file folder. Once youve created your system, youre ready to translate your kudos into applicablersummaterial. Awards are easy because you can put those either as a bullet under the job where you received them, or if you have space and have received several awards, you should create a special section at the end of yourrsum. List the na me of each award pluswhere and when you received it. Verbal and writtencompliments are more challenging to incorporate, but not impossible. Performance appraisals may or may not contain good content for yourrsum, but theycan be very helpful for finding good wordsabout your work. Here are some examples Compliment Thank you for your great work on the vorstellung. The client praised your efforts and asked that we have you work on the next one too.Rsumtranslation Designed and executed client marketing event for more than 100 attendees, including senior government leaders and Fortune 500 executives praised by client for efforts.Compliment Im very happy with how this project turned out and that you were able to deliver it on time.Rsumtranslation Redesigned project plan and strategy after encountered problems recognized for ability to turn it around and finalize it on time.Performance appraisal She was selected to mentor 10 junior staff and interns as a result of her ability to work well w ith team members and counsel peers.RsumtranslationSelected by senior leadership to mentor 10 junior staff and interns.Performance appraisal Detail-oriented professional with capability to rise quickly within the organization.Rsumtranslation Name an example of a time when youve employed your detail-oriented nature acknowledged by management for attention to detail and high potential for promotion. If youve received an email or letter of gratitude from a client, vendor or manager, highlight the specifics in a bullet in the saatkorn way as the examples above. There are many different words to use to describe the fact that youve received kudos. You dont want to use the same word throughout yourrsum. Some words to consider using, depending on the situation, areRecognizedAcknowledgedSelectedIdentifiedDesignatedSingled outChosenElected Dont neglect to include the compliments and recognition youve received on yourrsum. Save this information as you work so you can update yourrsumeasily. Incorporating these details may be the deciding factor for ahiring manager who is considering you or another candidate with a similar background.Marcelle Yeageris the president ofCareer Valet, which delivers personalized career navigation services. Her goal is to enable people to recognize skills and job possibilities they didnt know they had to make a career change or progress in their current career. She worked for more than 10 years as a strategic communications consultant, including four years overseas. Yeager holds an MBA from the University of Maryland.