Get Down to Business on Your Resume

Explain specifically what you can contribute to the bottom line of the organization, whether it’s through contract negotiations, streamlining operations, creating more efficient forms and systems, or sponsorship sales. Tell them you negotiated a contract that saved your organization $45,000, or you reduced attrition by $10,000, or you increased attendance by 25 percent. Have you saved money by renegotiating the contract with the printer? Put it up top on your resume. Those are the things that