Does your CV list accomplishments?


Has this ever happened to you? You’ve been instructed to list your career accomplishments, and you can’t think of any. Or you’re asked in a job interview, ‘What accomplishments are you most proud of?” and you freeze up. You know you have had accomplishments, but you just can’t dredge them up.

The inability to come up with accomplishments happens to lots of Kenyan job seekers. We know because we ask our CV and cover-letter clients to list accomplishments as part of the process of preparing their CV and cover letters for their next jobs. Although we stress that accomplishments are far more important than duties and responsibilities, a surprising number of clients are unable to articulate beyond the day-to-day tasks they performed in their jobs.