ACHIEVEMENT STATEMENT EXAMPLES FOR

MATH STUDENTS AND GRADUATES

·        Motivated and assisted students as a Math tutor for underperforming students in Algebra, Statistics, and Calculus classes; monitored their progress and evaluated course work, resulting in increased grades of participating students

·        Developed, processed, classified, and analyzed results of 200 computerized mail questionnaires during summer position at a marketing firm

·        Performed comparative analysis of operating expenses in Excel to establish variances in line items,  saving company $10,000 in operating expenses

·        Received department honors in Mathematics for senior presentation justifying concepts and explaining alternative approaches to creative problem solving

·        As an intern working on a major airlines project, helped determine favorable trends by analyzing ratios, resulting in changes that increased the number of business travelers by 30%

·        During summer position at Hewlett-Packard, helped develop a paper-moving algorithm for key printer that resulted in 20% faster printing

·        As a real estate finance intern, budgeted operating expenses and developed procedure to determine rent schedule through rent averaging process that company adopted

·        Analyzed and projected unit costs to create pricing report used to increase department profitability by 20%

·        As a summer intern with Proctor & Gamble Company, provided statistical support for various research projects, helping to determine efficient study design; collected, analyzed, and interpreted data, leading to new ideas and hypotheses to be tested

Sources:  Best Resumes for College Students and New Grads; Great Jobs for Math Majors; http://jobsearch.about.com/library/resume/blSampleSample1Resume.htm; Skill Scan Facilitator’s User Guide