This is in response to the recent 'cast on 2009 Resume Updates:
I have no idea how to include cost reductions on my resume, and I need help figuring out how to get this information and/or coming up with proxies.
For those of you in the U.S., I work for your friendly neighborhood Federal Government. The thing is that I have no clue about budgets, as budgets are managed by people one - sometimes two - levels above me. Should I talk to those people above me about the impact of my work on their bottom line? How do I broach the subject?
I am a front-line manager, though I am currently an individual contributor due to restrictions that prevent me from filling my vacancies. In previous positions where I had staff, I made productivity improvements (noted on my CMD), and I'm sure some of my process changes impacted budgets. I just have no idea what those impacts were.
- BJ
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How do you know your productivity improvements/process changes were improvements? What improved?
Hopefully there's a metric-based answer to that. That's what you put on your resume. Cost reductions is one good way to characterize this, but there are others if you don't have cost info: headcount/contractor reduction, output increase, reduction of cycle time, etc.
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