8 Great Tips to Prove Your Value on Your Resume

Not getting callbacks from the employers when you send out your resume? Join me as I review 8 great tips to prove your value on your resume!

I could have titled this post 8 Great Tips to Prove Your Value to Your Employer...

Before you non-job-seekers cut out me, this post very accurately could have been titled 8 Great Tips to Prove Your Value to Your Employer. So, stay tuned.

Lets be honest. How many times do we need to remind our own employers of our awesomeness? I dont know about you, but I seem to need to remind my guy every day because he cant remember a thing.

Whats the problem?

Think about the problem. Youre sending out your resume and employers arent calling you back. Ouch. [Ive already explained why that is in How to Get Your Resume Noticed in 5 Seconds Guaranteed .]

Although recruiters are a funky bunch and review those resumes quickly, they do notice an impact player when they see one. So, how do we get you to SHOW youre that impact player?

First, you need a great layout

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Second, Ill give you TWO FREE courses if you can stump me

Im really confident I can improve your resume if you follow this video and spend a few moments considering these tips. Want to know how confident?

I will give you my Build Your Ultimate Professional Resume Course & Workshop plus any additional online training course you find on the milewalk Academy siteFOR FREEif you can stump me. Details later.

Cmon buddy. Where are my 8 Tips?

Think about what employers care about. Who makes an impact in their organization? People who these things

1. Generate revenue. Employers love people who generate revenue. Do you generate revenue, profits, and acquire new customers? (Check the video for more commentary on this. I wont say this again for everyone because I hate repeating myself. You get it.)
2. Improve market and brand awareness. Hey marketing-type folks! Are you creating a better-known brand? Measure it any way you can. Is your company getting more inquiries or email addresses? Is your website traffic increasing due to content marketing? Google Analytics anyone?
3. Customer attraction and leads. Inside sellers or anyone on the front end of sales can be opening doors. You might not be closing the deal for your company, but youre filling your sales pipeline. Any lead generation works. Managing a booth at an industry fair? Are you collecting business cards or starting a customer or partnership relationship?
4. Customer happiness. Service people can rejoice! Maybe youre a call center operator and helping people who call in because your product or service is broken. You fix it. Voila! What are your customer satisfaction scores? What is your customer retention rate? What about renewals and renewal rate?
5. Corporate growth and security. Lets not forget the executives. Have you done anything related to supporting an Initial Public Offering, acquisition, divestiture, etc. Is your corporate and online security safer?
6. Employee happiness. Human resources, recruiters, and all who manage employees can focus on happiness. What are those employee satisfaction scores? Are your employees staying? Is your attrition bad or is your tenure really, really great? Are your recruitment numbers good? Are they healthy? Are your people progressing through their careers and going through the ranks and staying with you because you offer such great opportunities?
7. Cost reduction. Yeah baby!! Lets save some money! Did you do anything to save your company money? That could be anything. It could be optimizing a system that makes you run more efficiently. It could be reducing expenses. Processes you do faster save money.
8. Process efficiency. Optimize anything lately? I mean anything?!? Did you optimize a process that lets the rest of the employees do their job easier or faster? Maybe youre an accountant who figured out a way to reduce your companys month-end closing cycle from fifteen days to seven days. That saves money. It probably reduces mistakes too. All of that stuff is gold on a resume.

But, Andy, I dont do those activities at work

Sure you dont. If youre thinking theres no way I can come up with something like this

Are you a hostess? How many people do you care for and seat and service each night? Over the course of the year?

Are you a mail carrier? How many houses do you deliver the mail to? How many pounds of mail? How many square miles do you cover every single day, year in and year out?

Are you a mechanic? How many cars have you fixed within the last year?

Are you a project manager? Whats the size of the project budget? Did you complete it on time? How many people did you manage? How many people did you coach? How many people did you mentor?

We could go all day, but I have a time limit and word count limit and your attention span limit.

Hey, you mentioned a contest or something

Think about what I said. If you cant figure out a way to improve your resume, head to the comments section (wherever youre seeing this) and say

Hey, Andy, Im a [insert title here/perhaps type of company too] and I do [insert what you do] and I cant figure out how to quantity or show impact. What should I do?

Ill respond with advice. If I cant figure out something for you to add, you can have my resume course & workshop for FREE and any other online training course in the milewalk Academy .

Tell me I dont love you.

About the Author

Andrew LaCivita is the Founder & Chief Executive of milewalk and the milewalk Academy . As an internationally recognized executive recruiter, award-winning author, speaker, and trainer, Andrew has dedicated his career to helping people and companies realize their potential. He frequently serves as a trusted media resource and is the author of Interview Intervention, Out of Reach but in Sight, and The Hiring Prophecies (the eLit Gold Award Winner for Best Business/Careers/Sales Book for 2016).

Andrews passion is serving as a coach and trainer via his top 5 Careers Blog, Tips for Work and Life , and his online training site, the milewalk Academy . On a daily basis, he circulates his Todays Line to Live By , which is a self-developed inspirational quote. You can find these daily dispatches of inspiration on his blog and social media platform.

To learn more about Andrew, see his full biography and resources page .