Your achievements are simply the experiences that have brought you recognition or that have made you stand out from the crowd; that is, your skills turned into deeds. They can give you the illustrations that will demonstrate to the interviewer exactly what you can offer them as a potential employee. Examples might include a time when you cut costs, improved a process, mastered a new skill, solved a problem or averted a crisis.
When listing your achievements, it is important to assign them with a value and a result. Whilst the interviewer may be interested to learn that you designed a marketing plan for a product, they will be far more impressed if they knew that you designed a marketing plan that increased sales from £1 million to £4 million over 2 years.
Think about how you accomplished the achievement, the skills you used and the benefit that it brought both you and the company. Our section on creating your curriculum vitae has more information on how to identify and describe achievements.
