A lot of the work I have done DO NOT have tangilble impact? How should I describe it in resume as well as in interview? For example, I have done a five year planning project for an multinational energy firm, a go-to-market strategy for a SaaS company and strategy benchmarking for a information technology company, but I don't even know any tangible impact of it, let alone put the impact on resume/at interview.
What should I do?
Hi,
This is hard to talk through in writing. Really, you need to hire a coach so that you can actually talk through your work with you. They'll help tease out where there is impact that you don't realize.
However, here are some tips:
1) Impact does not have to be purely quantitative - you can say qualitative impacts (like, resulted in successful launch, or accepted by CEO and implemented, etc. etc.)
2) You can provide estimate/ballpark numbers - if you don't have exact numbers, that's ok! I did some process improvements for a company. I know that their existing process took a few hours. I now that my new process probably would take a few minutes if done right. So, I put that!
3) You can provide " tangental" impact numbers - for example, I designed and built an onboarding process + application for our company. I have no idea if it was good or not! But I do know that we increased our staff by 50% that year (this was planned)...so I put that number! Would you feel comfortable estimating the size of the market for your go-to-market strategy? Put that!
Hi, feel free to send it for a quick review
Best,
ANtonello
Hi Anonymous,
don't be overly strict when thinkign about the tangible impact you had.
Hope that helps - if so, please be so kind and give it a thumbs-up with the green upvote below!
Robert
Hi there,
You can talk about the experience from other aspects to show impact, e.g.
Best,
Emily
