Turn duties into achievements with numbers

The formula

Most CV lines can be rebuilt with one pattern:

Action + what + scale + result.

• Action: a strong verb in the past tense (prepared, reconciled, negotiated, trained, reduced, launched).
• What: the specific thing, not the category.
• Scale: how much, how many, how often, for whom.
• Result: what changed, or what was delivered on time, or what was avoided.

Before: "Responsible for stock management." After: "Managed stock for a 3,000-line hardware store, introducing weekly counts that cut unexplained losses to under one percent."

Before: "Handled customer complaints." Aft