You've probably heard the advice: a good resume has numbers. Quantify your impact. Show metrics.
But one of the most common pushbacks I get is: "My job isn't a numbers job. I'm not in sales/finance. I don't have revenue numbers or $ figures or whatever."
Fair enough. But here's what you're missing: there are other numbers you can add.
(And btw, if most people in your field think there are "no numbers" by default, you adding them will really differentiate your resume.)
Let’s look at an example with no numbers (this resume won’t go far):
❌ Designed email templates for the marketing team
❌ Coordinated website redesign project
Here’s how I might add numbers (everyone has these):
✅ Designed an email toolkit and style guide to enable teams to quickly build mobile-responsive emails and maintain visual consistency; led to time savings of 5+ hours per week (time saving is an easy one you can estimate)
✅ Coordinated 6-month website redesign, working with 12 people across design, engineering, and marketing teams (project length/complexity/size of your team show hiring managers the kind of scale you worked with)
Try to choose metrics that are related to your industry. So, if you work in customer service, the best metrics are linked to tickets closed or accounts handled. And if you’re a lawyer, talk about the scale of deals you worked on.
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