Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter explains how to discuss your performance metrics in your resume for greatest effect.
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I want to talk with you about framing metrics in your resume in ways that are very powerful.
What to know how powerful it is? Google has written about this formula. Let’s talk about the power of these metrics.
What you do is write about what you’ve done by comparison to the average individual in your organization and how you went about doing it.
For example, in the quote that comes from Google, “Wrote editorials for the New York Times.” That’s one way of saying it but it isn’t particularly effective.
“Had 50 OpEds published by comparison to six by most op-ed writers, as a result of providing deep insight into the following area for three years.”
What they are doing is showing what they did in comparison to the average and then how they went about doing it.
So, if you’re administrative assistant,, you might talk about call averages or support effectiveness, or supporting X number of people or output that you have by comparison to others. If you are a programmer, he might speak in terms of code. If you’re an architect… You get the idea.
The idea is to compare yourself to the average and how you went about doing it. It’s a powerful metrics and method even Google recognizes and looks at when they are evaluating people.
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