Quick resume question about using numbers/metrics

Drez

I'm revising my resume and I just realized I last updated this for an internal application.

I have some specific numbers regarding the amount of throughput in some tools and processes I manage. As an example: "Manage Blahblahblah Tool which has $X billion+ in spend throughput." Or "Process $X million in wharrgarbl."

Thing is: Showing magnitude here would be good because there is a big difference between managing a large amount of data throughput suggested by a large number than with a low number. But I'm not sure if that may violate something since it would give the person reading the resume an idea of how much our company spends per year, or how much wharrgarbl we manage.

Unfortunately, these are not metrics I can refer to as percentages or in any other meaningful way without actually providing some kind of hard number or range.

Any thoughts?

ArbitraryDescriptor

Drez wrote: »

I'm revising my resume and I just realized I last updated this for an internal application.

I have some specific numbers regarding the amount of throughput in some tools and processes I manage. As an example: "Manage Blahblahblah Tool which has $X billion+ in spend throughput." Or "Process $X million in wharrgarbl."

Thing is: Showing magnitude here would be good because there is a big difference between managing a large amount of data throughput suggested by a large number than with a low number. But I'm not sure if that may violate something since it would give the person reading the resume an idea of how much our company spends per year, or how much wharrgarbl we manage.

Unfortunately, these are not metrics I can refer to as percentages or in any other meaningful way without actually providing some kind of hard number or range.

Any thoughts?

Hard to picture what you're trying to describe. Could you speak in terms of transactions per timeunit or is the value relevant?

You could also ask internally, unless this is on the dl for reasons. "How can I speak to X without giving away proprietary information" seems a reasonable question, but I'm a reasonable guy.

l_g

Drez wrote: »

I'm revising my resume and I just realized I last updated this for an internal application.

I have some specific numbers regarding the amount of throughput in some tools and processes I manage. As an example: "Manage Blahblahblah Tool which has $X billion+ in spend throughput." Or "Process $X million in wharrgarbl."

Thing is: Showing magnitude here would be good because there is a big difference between managing a large amount of data throughput suggested by a large number than with a low number. But I'm not sure if that may violate something since it would give the person reading the resume an idea of how much our company spends per year, or how much wharrgarbl we manage.

Unfortunately, these are not metrics I can refer to as percentages or in any other meaningful way without actually providing some kind of hard number or range.

Any thoughts?

Is your company publicly traded? If so, see if those numbers are already available through shareholder reports. That would put you completely in the clear.

If your company is entirely private, it might still be ok to express it in general terms, for instance the order of magnitude that the systems handle e.g. you could say that your system operates with a daily-average-user count that is in the millions (as opposed to tens/hundreds/thousands). Being able to describe in magnitude terms the scale of your systems should be fair game. Describing the monetary value of it may be giving too much away, but describing the load it is under is relevant.

Drez

l_g wrote: »

Drez wrote: »

I'm revising my resume and I just realized I last updated this for an internal application.

I have some specific numbers regarding the amount of throughput in some tools and processes I manage. As an example: "Manage Blahblahblah Tool which has $X billion+ in spend throughput." Or "Process $X million in wharrgarbl."

Thing is: Showing magnitude here would be good because there is a big difference between managing a large amount of data throughput suggested by a large number than with a low number. But I'm not sure if that may violate something since it would give the person reading the resume an idea of how much our company spends per year, or how much wharrgarbl we manage.

Unfortunately, these are not metrics I can refer to as percentages or in any other meaningful way without actually providing some kind of hard number or range.

Any thoughts?

Is your company publicly traded? If so, see if those numbers are already available through shareholder reports. That would put you completely in the clear.

If your company is entirely private, it might still be ok to express it in general terms, for instance the order of magnitude that the systems handle e.g. you could say that your system operates with a daily-average-user count that is in the millions (as opposed to tens/hundreds/thousands). Being able to describe in magnitude terms the scale of your systems should be fair game. Describing the monetary value of it may be giving too much away, but describing the load it is under is relevant.

Yeah, I ended up using "billions" and "millions" to describe the data points I am referencing.

Thanks for the advice!

zepherin

You can also use equivalent parallels. I see this done either people who have clearances on their resume. As opposed to work on x ts project for 3 letter agency, worked on similar project for dod.

For you maybe worked on 18.1 billion dollars in items.
Worked on bobbles project. 2 separate things

Numbers are always great though, it makes your resume more epic.