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You’ve likely heard the advice to add numbers to your resume bullets. It helps really picture the impact you’ve made in your position, and it frankly just sounds more impressive.
See for yourself: Which person would you hire?
Person 1: Duties included taking field measurements and maintaining records, setting up and tracking project using Microsoft Project, and developing computerized material take-off sheets.
Person 2: Initiated and managed tracking systems used for the Green District water decontamination project, saving $125,000 on the overall project through a 30% decrease of staff allocation time.
Exactly.
Of course, I know what you might be thinking: Sounds great, but what if I just don’t really work with hard numbers? Maybe you’re in a role that requires softer skills, or maybe you don’t have hard data or sales reports to pull from.
That’s OK! Truthfully, no matter what you do, you can add some numbers and data to your resume to give it that extra touch.
Here are three ways to quantify your experience without being in an inherently quantitative field:
1. Range
Not knowing the exact figure for things is often a big deterrent for using numbers in resumes. But one way to overcome this is to use a range.
It’s perfectly fine to not know exactly how many clients you see a month or how many calls you take a week, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t still quantify it.
Give it your best estimate, and the range will show that there is a bit of leeway. And, of course, focus on your impact.
To read more of Lily Zhang’s brilliant tips on The Muse, click here.