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Mastering Interview Preparation: Career Accomplishments Timeline

Plotting your career accomplishments on a timeline is a powerful way to prepare for interviews. Documenting key roles and successes helps you recall details, articulate your contributions, and boost your confidence. Practice recalling the great things you've done to be interview-ready!

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Mastering Interview Preparation: Career Accomplishments Timeline

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  1. Interview Simulator THE BEST WAY TO BE READY IS TO PRACTICE SPECIAL BONUS MATERIAL

  2. Career Accomplishments Timeline • In order to prepare for an interview, you really need to know yourself and your work history, specifically tasks, events and accomplishments that you played a key role in over the course of your career. • One of the most effective ways to jog your memory is to plot out your career on a timeline. So, we’ve created the following template and example for you to use. • Duplicate the template slide as many times as necessary to have enough slides to document all your roles and accomplishments.

  3. Career Timeline - template Accomplishment #1 Accomplishment #4 Accomplishment #2 Accomplishment #5 Accomplishment #3 Accomplishment #6 YYYY-MM YYYY-MM Job #2 Job #1

  4. Career Timeline - Example Played key role in supporting a project to launch a new product Implemented new process to increase overall efficiency in our department Supported a senior leader with an in- depth analysis leading to a major decision Hired 2 new team members who both contributed significantly to the business Led a project to collect and analyze data for our top client Led a major project to streamline our go to market strategy. 2012-08 2005-01 Manager Analyst

  5. The basis for your answers • Add as many jobs, accomplishments and slides as you can. Be thorough. Once you start the process you will recall many of the great things you’ve done. • Once you map out your accomplishments across all your jobs, you can move onto thinking about interview questions, or rather interview answers. • Refer back to your timeline and fill in details of what you did, how you overcame obstacles, how you used your unique set of skills to solve problems and how you contributed to the business’ success. • You already know the answers, you just need to practice recalling the details and articulating your role. • You’ll probably be quite impressed by the end of all the great stuff you did.

  6. The best way to be ready is to practice. Are you ready?

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