The numbers recruiters look for on a CV
Most CVs describe responsibilities. The ones that get calls describe size, speed and money.
Two candidates can do identical work and describe it completely differently. One writes managed procurement for the business. The other writes managed a supplier base of ninety vendors across three countries with an annual spend of four million.
Pick the unit your industry counts in
- Engineering: users, requests per second, uptime, deploy frequency, cost per month.
- Architecture: square metres, floors, hotel keys, project value, team size.
- Procurement: spend under management, supplier count, savings delivered, lead times.
- Sales: quota, attainment, deal size, cycle length.
- Support: ticket volume, response time, satisfaction scores.
Order of magnitude beats false precision
You do not need audited figures. Roughly fifty applications, about four million in spend, a team of six. Nobody expects a signed off number, and a range is more credible than a suspiciously exact one.
Where people under sell
The most commonly omitted numbers are team size, budget and duration. If you led work, say how many people. If you owned spend, say how much. If you ran something for four years, say so, because longevity reads as trust.
One caution
A number you cannot explain is worse than no number. Every figure on your CV should come with a story about how it was achieved and what you would do differently.
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