<p>I have been reading sample resumes off resume writing services’ sites and I noticed that some of them encourage to write numbers on resumes. For example, instead of writing “increased sales,” they say to write “increased sales by 1 million.” I had a job where I handled and counted money at the end of the day. Is it ethical to write down that kind of information? In my opinion, I think it is very unethical to give out that kind of internal information of your previous employer, but then again I have seen several websites where they say this will actually put a shine on your resume.</p>
<p>It depends on the situation. If you’re in sales, for instance, and you made a multi-million dollar deal for your company, I’m thinking you’d probably put it on your resume (although, if you were that big in the business and were looking to change jobs, you probably wouldn’t need a resume…potential employers would know your name…). But if your just counting money, why bother? Who cares whether you can count twenty dollars or three thousand?</p>
<p>There’s a BIG difference between MAKING money for a company, and counting it. No one is really going to care how much money you counted, unless they are worried about your arithmetic skills. It is true that you have to make your resume shine, but I don’t see how this would do it…</p>
<p>I disagree. Go ahead and put a ballpark figure for how much money your company trusts you to handle. It shows, roughly, their level of confidence in you.</p>