In a 2008 commencement speech at the Wharton School, long-time executive Steve Gilbert summed up his years of job success with the following formula.
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Oct 29
2008
Steven Gilbert’s Job Success Formula
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May 8
2008
60 Resume Achievement Writing Ideas and Expressions
As a salute to Israel’s 60th birthday, here are 60 kinds of achievements that you might not be emphasizing enough on your CV or resume.
Why is this list important?
To do a great job selling yourself, a resume needs to convince readers that you have the skills needed for their job and the abilities to do it successfully. By highlighting accomplishments using action verbs, you create a proven track record to eliminate all doubt.
You successfully…
1. Managed company/department annual/quarterly budget of X (large) amount
2. Stayed under budget for X quarters/years
3. Were promoted
4. Were promoted after only X months in the role
5. Directed a team/group/organization (something difficult to manage)
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--Jacob Share
Mar 29
2007
The Secret To Finding Dream Jobs
The Dream Job. The one that you never want to end. The one that you would love. The one that you’ve never had and may never have. Until now.
In Theory
Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for doing it
Flashback. When I was a teenager growing up in Montreal, I loved baseball. A friend and I would try to see as many games as possible each summer, and every time we went to the stadium to watch our favorite team (the now-defunct Expos), we would rave about what work must be like as a batboy, the next best thing to actually being a player.
Being a batboy was our dream job at that time, a job we would have done for free paid to do. The fact is that we saw only one facet of that job – the batboy helping the players during the game – and that if we’d known his entire job description including all the time he spends cleaning, polishing and shining, we would have set our hearts elsewhere.
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