How to Promote Experiences in a Job Interview

"Hi! I’m Tine Buechler. My company is Business Growth Training and I am here today on behalf of Expert Village.com to talk about accomplishments. In this clip I want to talk about the key area of focus that you need to really spend a lot of time on in order to improve your chances of becoming employed and that is accomplishment statements. What we are looking at is: how well you have performed. What are your accomplishments, your achieved results and your reputation? When you are looking for employment, one of the things that the future employer wants to know is what have you done, what have you accomplished? When you went to work, what were your key things that you contributed to that place of employment? The best indicator of future behavior is past behavior and so what I am looking for when I am hiring somebody is a reputation. I want evidence. I want concrete evidence that indeed you can do the job that you say you can do. Part of that accomplishment can be based upon transferable skills. For example, you had a project and you took on this project and you completed the project on time or you completed the project on budget. All of those things indicate that you can take on a task, follow it through and bring it to completion. If you can do it in one setting, you can probably do it in another setting. So when you are thinking about your job goal, what is it that you are looking for? What you need to think about is what an employer hiring this position would want this employee to be able to do. Focus on those key skills. Think about in your past what have you done that would validate those skills. What you are looking for is a situation or task that you did, the action that you took and then the result that happened. For example, I developed or implemented an inventory recording program. The action is that I developed it, the situation or task was the inventory recording program and the result was it reduced 2 days from prior inventory recording time. All of this indicates that you took a situation or task, you applied your action and you got a result. Think of how you can do that for your next employer. This accomplishment statements, these achieved results are what makes your income and that is what you need to focus on."