What is your Greatest Achievement?

Your greatest achievement’ may be part of an answer to the interview questions – tell me about yourself.
If you don’t include this part in your answer, the interviewer may ask about your greatest achievements to get a clear picture of your career.
Therefore, in order to know who you really are, the interviewer would like to assess your career accomplishments.

Achievement:
Let’s start brainstorming – How did you improve ‘things’ while you were working at your previous jobs?
For Example:
• Great initiatives and fresh ideas.
• Have you shaken old methods?
• Developed a new program.
• Target sales, new sales.
• Reached new clients?
• Developed a new customer satisfaction procedure?
• Improved the accuracy of budget forecasts?
• New design on time-schedule.
• Achieved project goals.
• Established good working relationships with customers.
• Great team work.
• Established new quality standards.

Value And Performance:
• How was your target goal measured?
• Who was the initiator – you or your bosses?
• What did your bosses say after achieving these goals?

Actions:
Think of the actions that you took to achieve the goal. Every single step that you have taken for achieving the objectives:
• Tasks during the activity
• Your personal management activities
• The changes and difficulties that you handled effectively.

Results:
What were the results of your achievement?
For Example:
• Better quality performance or reliability?
• Did you make any difference in sales numbers, costs and profits?
• What about customer satisfaction?
• Did you improve support service level? What about productivity, efficiency and the company’s reputation? Did you make any difference?

After thinking about the above questions you may have a perfect answer to the question – what were your greatest achievements?
P.S. It would be wise for you to present a career achievement that reflects back to the job requirements and to the company to which you are applying.
In this way, you gain the employer’s interest – tell a success story where you have had a challenge with an impressive achievement.
You want the interviewer to think: hey, if he/she did it once, he/she can do it again!