Achievements

Route to Success

Easy steps to prepare
your achievements
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Essential to identify achievements
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Memory jogger
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Self-confidence for the job search
Important for:
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CV
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Interviews
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Maintaining motivation


Success & Accomplishments
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Important ones – create a list
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Your personal, volunteer and
educational accomplishments
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Impact on your work, performance
review or job interview


Employers & Recruiters
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Need to know
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set you apart from others
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YOUR unique contribution
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Ask yourself So what?
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Quantify and qualify them
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STAR – situation, task, action, result


Review your achievements
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Career and personal life from school days up to
present
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evaluate your importance in society and the
workplace
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build awareness of your strengths.
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realize that you are valuable a
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boost confidence in your abilities and skills


Identify core achievements & abilities:

Make a list of your achievements in your life -
about 30 to 35
Only list those where the outcome was significant.
Only list those where you played a key role.
Select the best achievements
Write a short essay about each & cover following
points:
Specific situation {S} Task {T} Action taken {A}
Result {R}

Underline all the action verbs in the
actions taken which will be used to
identify your strengths.
Then answer the following questions
for each of the accomplishments:



List 30-35 greatest life achievements
Significant outcomes
You had key role
Select the best


Write a short essay
Use STAR
Specific situation {S}
Task {T}
Action taken {A}
Result {R}



Underline action verbs
Identify your strengths
Look for theme of success
Strength
Role
Important for : CV and Interview

Questions to ask yourself
What was the main achievement?
What did you most enjoy when taking the action?
Why did you enjoy it?
In what did you excel and why?
What was your motivation for doing it?
How did you get along with the other people
involved?
What was the environment like and how did you
feel about it?

Achievements
Answers to interview questions
Successes highlights on your CV
Accomplishments remind you of your
abilities
Check-list:
– Ask - So what?
– Quantify & qualify

Quantify & Qualify

– How much
– How many
– How small
– How well
– How often
– How quick

Achievements

Too valuable to be simply
forgotten when most
needed in a job search


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