Unit 4: Achievement Statements
Describing your skills effectively without boasting
Job seekers will need this manual while working through Unit 3: Winning Résumés, Unit 5: Networking & Research and Unit 7: Winning at the Job Interview. Participants are encouraged to help each other write achievement statements. The ‘mentor’ in a pair of participants might question the ‘mentee’ seeking to find out about an achievement that would demonstrate a skill required for the position being sought and then the two could describe the exploit in the form of an achievement statement. This will accomplish two things: working in pairs will strengthen the learning experience for both mentor and mentee and, through sharing the achievements, they will become more real to the mentee, enhancing the mentee’s self-image and facilitating the ability to envisage success in the prospective job.
Asking participants to share one or two of their achievement statements with the whole group is also very beneficial to the positive self-image and it also improves the readiness of job seekers to use achievement statements in answers to interview questions.
Estimated Time Required: 1 hour
Learner Outcomes:
be able to explain how achievement statements can describe your skills in a convincing and interesting way
be able to explain their use and value in résumés, job applications and when preparing answers to interview questions
understand the different ways of writing achievement statements
be able to write achievement statements of different types
be able to compile a Key Skills Statement for grabbing interest fast when making a telephone call