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Small-Scale Question Sunday for July 28, 2024

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

This is your opportunity to ask questions. No question too simple or too silly.

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Whenever possible, document the money that your initiatives and projects either saved your employer, or earned for your employer. State it in easy to digest terms. I like STAR format: Situation, Task, Actions, Results.

ex: As a senior risk management and transaction compliance manager, I initiated project Waste Not, where I initiated an org wide SOP review which identified over 80k redundant investigations per year under current processes. After eliminating this waste and streamlining our processes our org saved 6mil USD on operational costs YOY compared to the previous process state.

Keep it simple and easy to understand when spoken in an interview. Have supporting docs if you can (this is often not possible with NDAs).

If its not a cost saving/revenue generating position, find some other way to quantify impact in easy to communicate ways. If you took lead on a big project that got attention in the press, you can usually use your companies own press releases without violating your NDA (I'd hope anyway)