Job applications
Turn resume duties into evidence of your work
Start with what you personally did, then add any result your records support. A resume bullet about managing stock, for example, can explain which items you tracked and how the counts were used. Leave out figures you cannot verify.
A text to start with
Here are the resume bullets from my role as [job title] at [employer], held from [start] to [end]: [bullets]. Here are my own notes, records and feedback from that period: [notes]. Rewrite each bullet to show what I personally did and what resulted. Use only facts from my notes. Mark any bullet with no stated result so I can supply one. Do not add figures.
Example request. Change the details to fit your situation.Bullet rewrite with source notes
Role and employer: [ ] Dates held: [ ] Original bullet: [ ] What I personally did: [ ] Who else was involved: [ ] Rewritten bullet: [ ] Result stated: [ ] Source note (record, message or document): [ ] Confidence the result can be shown: [high / partial / none] Bullets with no supported result, to revisit: [ ] Repeat the item block as needed.
Where rewritten bullets go wrong
Check each verb against your involvement. Helping with a project, building part of it and managing the work describe different responsibilities. Keep a team result connected to your own contribution, and check whether another decision affected the outcome. If your notes contain no result, a plain description of the work can still be useful. An interviewer may ask you to explain the line, so keep the details you would need for that conversation beside the draft.
Ask another agent to check the result
Compare each rewritten bullet with my original notes. Flag any number, percentage or outcome that does not appear in the notes. Flag any verb that raises my role above what the notes show, such as led, owned or drove. List unsupported claims separately and suggest plainer wording for each.
Confirm each result before you submit
Open the source document, message or document named in each source note. Where the evidence is missing, remove the result or mark it for verification before submitting. Compare the supported bullets with the posting and move the most relevant work higher. Save the finished version with its source notes so you can reuse the evidence in other applications.