Responsibility Vs Accomplishments on your Résumé

Your résumé should focus on what you’ve achieved (i.e., your accomplishments), and not what you’re supposed to do (i.e., your responsibilities).

Here’s the difference:

Responsibility (don’t write this): “Oversaw team’s performance and provided leadership to all business functions in divisions.”

Consider the statement above. It explains what you did, but not how well you did it — and that’s the most important part. It sounds like it was pulled straight from a job posting, which makes it too generic for a resume.

Here’s what you should do instead:

Accomplishment (write this ✔️): “Recruited and mentored a team of 10 members to grow revenue by 200% in the first nine months (representing 20% of company revenue).”

In contrast, the statement above is specific about what you achieved in the role, focuses on the end benefit to the company, and it uses numbers and metrics to explicitly quantify that achievement.

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