How to Quantify Resume Achievements

Using hard numbers when you make your resume is important because doing so shows employers how much work you can manage and what types of results you can produce. If you don’t quantify your resume, you’ll seem like a generic, ineffective applicant:

Here’s how to quantify your resume:

1. Go through your work history and note any achievement or task that can be expressed with numbers (for instance, if you managed a cash register, state how many customers you helped each shift)
2. Add the hard numbers that make you look best throughout your resume sections
3. Use numerals instead of spelled-out numbers (e.g., 4 not “four”) to make the accomplishments on your resume stand out
4. Change or rearrange the numbers you list based on the job you’re targeting (for example, if the job ad emphasizes management skills, prioritize management-related hard numbers)

Quantifiable Achievement Examples

Here are examples of quantifiable achievements that you can put on your resume to make your application appealing to employers:

Achievements related to money

If you managed money, increased profits, or cut costs, here are examples of how to highlight that information when you write your resume:

Time-Related Achievements

Employers value employees who can complete work on time and find ways to increase efficiency. These are examples of how to showcase your time management skills with hard numbers on your resume:

Workload Achievements

Here are four example resume bullet points that show you how to quantify your productivity on your resume:

Management Achievements

If you have management experience, listing the size of teams and projects you managed gives hiring managers a clear picture of how much responsibility you can take on if they hire you:

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Examples of Numbers in Each Resume Section

Here are examples of how to quantify every section of your resume, including your:

• Resume Introduction
• Work Experience
• Education
• Additional Skills

Resume Introduction

Your resume’s introduction (also called a resume objective or resume summary) is where you quantify your years of experience and your most job-relevant achievements to get the hiring manager’s attention. This is an example of a summary with eye-catching hard numbers from a customer service representative resume:

Extroverted call center representative with 4+ years’ experience processing orders and finding ideal solutions to complex customer issues. Trusted by my manager to train 3–5 new hires each quarter and 6-time Rep of the Month Award winner. Looking to bring proven leadership ability to the Customer Service Supervisor position at AT&T.

Work Experience

The most important part of your resume to quantify is your professional experience section. This is where hiring managers look to see what you’ve accomplished in your previous roles.

So add hard numbers wherever possible in your resume’s work experience section, like so:

• Process 20+ phone orders per day, generating an average of $300 in revenue per call
• Manage department customer complaint email inbox with a company best 93% successful resolution rate
• Upsell peripheral products and services, setting the company record for most add-ons sold in a single month (51, totaling $3,500)
• Trained 20+ new employees in phone etiquette, and sales and conflict resolution techniques

Education

If you’re an experienced applicant, all you need to do to quantify your resume’s education section is list your GPA (but only if it’s 3.6 or higher) because employers will just glance at it to be sure you’ve met their minimum requirements.

But if you’re writing a resume with no experience, your education section is the perfect place to quantify the skills you’ve learned in school or while participating in extracurricular activities.

This is an example of how to quantify your resume’s education section:

Colorado Christian University
Associate of Science in Sales & Marketing
GPA: 3.8/4.0

Relevant Coursework & Extracurricular Activities

• Created an online store as part of a group project that generated $5,000 in T-shirt sales for a local charity
• Served as treasurer for the university Marketing Club, managing a $3,200 budget

Additional Skills

Instead of just listing your skills on your resume, quantify your level of expertise. The below example does so with skills bubbles and test results:

Sample Resume with Metrics

This resume example is quantified from top to bottom:

Download Quantified Resume Example (MS Word)