Most People Mistakenly Leave Out The Best 'Predictor Of Future Success' On Their Resumes, Says Former Google Recruiter

When writing a resume, don't forget to include your personal achievements and promotions — these key details are some of the best predictors of future success, according to a former Google recruiter. 

What To Know: CEO of talent marketplace Continuum, Nolan Church, shared some key tips for job applicants that he picked up from his time as a recruiter at Alphabet Inc GOOGGOOGL, which owns Google.

Professional achievements should always be included, but there's another key piece of information applicants commonly leave out, Church told CNBC. 

"Promotion history is the thing that I am looking for in resumes and in LinkedIn that I do not think people highlight enough," he said. 

If you worked for a company for five years and were promoted during that time, you should include the promotions on your resume and on job boards and professional social platforms such as LinkedIn, but most people don't, Church said. 

If you leave promotions out, a recruiter will assume that you were not promoted at all during your time at the prior job, which can make it look like you have had a stagnant career not worthy of recognition and promotions, which are the "No. 1 predictor of future success," he said. 

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Promotions are so important for recruiters that you should make them easy to find. You can even design your resume so that promotions are the first thing a potential employer sees, Church said. 

One way to do this is by including the promotions in the description section beneath prior experience. Underneath the title of relevant roles, you should say something like "promoted three times in the last five years," the former Google recruiter said. 

“Promotions for me indicate that this company believes that you are solving problems for them, that they want to invest in you and that they want to keep you ... which then makes me want to steal you from them," Church said.

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This story is part of a series of features on the subject of success, Benzinga Inspire.

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