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75 Examples of Professional Accomplishments

John Spacey, updated on February 05, 2024

Professional accomplishments are admirable or high value things that you have achieved in your work. This includes producing business outcomes such as revenue, cost reduction and customer satisfaction. Professional accomplishments can also be demonstrated in terms of promotions, awards and positive feedback you have received. In some cases, accomplishments can involve things that aren't noticed or awarded that nonetheless generated much value or solved big problems for your team. The following are common examples of professional accomplishments.

Achieving compliance	Acquiring skills
Advocating for customers	Automating processes
Awards & recognition	Being an agent of change
Building competitive advantages	Business retrenchments
Business strategies you originated and implemented	Business tests & experiments
Business turnarounds	Changes you championed
Closing sales	Customer satisfaction wins
Decreasing rework	Delivering important analysis
Delivering projects	Delivering training
Developing relationships	Developing talents
Doing good	Growing market share
Impressing important clients	Improving customer outcomes
Improving decisions	Improving efficiency
Improving key relationships	Improving product review scores
Improving products	Improving quality
Improving safety	Improving security
Improving the customer experience	Increasing brand recognition
Increasing productivity	Increasing revenue
Influencing leadership	Innovations you launched
Launching products	Leading teams
Media coverage you generated	Meeting difficult deadlines
Mentoring	Negotiation outcomes
Optimizations you discovered	Originating business change
Planning events	Positive feedback from customers
Positive feedback from executives	Positive feedback from project stakeholders
Professional certifications	Promotions
Prototypes you developed	Public speaking
Recovering from a business crisis	Recovering from failure
Reducing costs	Reducing errors
Reinventing a business	Research publications
Resolving conflict	Saving time
Service excellence	Solving business problems
Sponsoring successful change	Strategic wins
Supporting executives	Supporting your team
Systems you developed	Taking accountability
Transforming a brand	Transforming team culture
Turning around customer dissatisfaction	Valuable inventions
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Overview

Professional accomplishments are significant contributions you have made to your field or organization. These can be admirable things that you have achieved or specific examples of how you have created value and progressed in your profession.