Look at position descriptions, performance appraisals, and awards or achievements to help you develop accomplishment statements. What can you say about your performance?

For example:

• What has improved or changed for the better due to your efforts?  
• Have you served on a committee or worked on a team to accomplish a project?
• What new skills or knowledge have you gained?
• What have you done that has made you proud?
• Did you meet or exceed performance standards? How?
• Did you design or modify a system or procedure to make it better?
• How have you made a difference in your department or for individuals?
• Have you made a presentation or led a workshop?
• What has been your biggest accomplishment?
• Have you dealt with difficult employees, vendors or clients?
• Have you successfully supervised or trained others?
• What challenges have you overcome?
• Have you received outstanding evaluations on some aspect of your work?
• Have you increased participation, donations, sales or productivity? How?
• Did you create something new? A program, procedure, event, form, newsletter, etc.?
• Have you saved your department time or money?
• Have you successfully managed a project?  What was the scope? The results?
• What did you accomplish that no one expected or asked of you?
• Did you develop and/or implement a new approach to doing something that was more effective?

Don’t forget to include information about team or group involvement, and balance the information to include technical and interpersonal skills.