Helpful Exercises
Focus on Accomplishments
An effective salesperson describes the specifications of a product, as well as promotes its performance and notes examples of success and customer satisfaction.
Your accomplishments are a record of success. Employers want to know how, where and when you used those skills. They want to hear how you excelled in your performance. Your accomplishments set you apart from the competition.
Click here to print out a worksheet to help you list your accomplishments.
Include any success in your life. There are no wrong answers. Include some accomplishments from past employment or an employment-related activity. Include ways you improved, met a specific challenge or saved time and money. These may have been from your own effort or as part of a team. When stating an accomplishment, use measures whenever possible.
Here are some examples to consider:
- Successfully managed $500,000 accounts receivables and reduced delinquent accounts by 15 percent.
- Participated on a fundraising team for the YWCA which raised $15,000 for youth programs.
- Successfully managed a household of four on a $900 a month budget.
- Restored a 1936 Ford to original condition.