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Practical guide
A CV that lists tasks reads like a job description. A CV that shows results makes employers want to pay more. The method for rewriting every line.
Two people in the same job don't have the same market value: the one who shows what they achieved sells themselves better than the one who describes what they were asked to do. Your CV is your first negotiation. Every line must answer the question the recruiter is asking: what did you change wherever you worked?
A task says what you did: “Managing supplier orders”. An achievement says what it produced: “Reduced stock-outs by renegotiating delivery times with key suppliers”. The second talks about you; the first talks about the job description.
Action verb + what you did + result + context. For example: “Launched a customer newsletter, followed by [X] subscribers within a year, with a team of two”. Starting with the verb (led, designed, reduced, developed, trained, negotiated) makes the line readable in a second, by a human as well as by software. For variety, here is the list of action verbs by task.
You have more than you think. Look at:
Your annual reviews, your dashboards and your old emails are goldmines. When you don't have the exact figure, an honest estimate will do.
Beyond results, recruiters pay for scope and scarcity: managing people, responsibility for a budget or a key client, skills in demand in your field, experience in a large group. Put them at the top, in your profile (that is the whole point of a CV for a manager or executive). Our analysis calculates your market value based on your job and your city, and the range from small businesses to large groups: a CV that shows results is the one that aims for the top of that range.
Replace each “[X]” with your real figures: that is exactly what our AI-improved CV does, rewriting your lines without ever inventing a figure and asking you for the ones that are missing. For the next step, the guide on negotiating your starting salary helps you turn this CV into a job offer. And with every new role or new result, update your CV while the figures are still fresh.
Show the scope (how many people, cases or sites), the frequency, the level of responsibility or a concrete result (“procedure adopted by the whole team”). A precise qualitative result beats a generality.
Yes, if you can explain it in an interview: “about” or an honest estimate is better than nothing. Never an invented figure: it is the first thing you will be asked about.
Start with your last two jobs, the ones the recruiter actually reads. Three to six lines per job are enough; older experience can fit on one line.
The site's tools and features that go with this guide: the figures there are calculated by the code, never by the AI.