Choose a Simple System to Remember Your Accomplishments

A great resume will be a powerful story about what you can bring to your prospective employer. This is done by highlighting your past career accomplishments. Unfortunately, one of the most difficult parts about putting together a great resume is remembering your past accomplishments!

When you finish a project, it seems like you will never forget the great results that you earned. But give it a year, and the specifics are a distant memory.

That’s why everyone needs an Accomplishments Folder – a place to file away accomplishment reminders. It doesn’t have to be fancy. It just needs to work for you. It can be a physical folder that’s easy to throw a sticky note in, the note app on your phone or you can send an email to yourself with a subject line that’s easy to find.

Accomplishments Folders also come in handy for self-evaluations, promotion opportunities, salary increase negotiations and really just anytime that you need to market yourself professionally.

So pick a simple system that will work for you and let those accomplishments accumulate. The next time you go to write your resume, it will truly be a story of your achievements.