Each of us has some unique capability, waiting for realization.
—George H. Bender

In the last chapter, you identi?ed your skills, personal traits, competencies, and gifts—a task that’s surprisingly difficult for most job seekers. In fact, this crucial bit of “homework” puts you well ahead of most other job applicants. It’s an essential step toward your ultimate goal—being able to clearly describe your skills and quali?cations to an interviewer. The next step will be to use these skills to create pithy, memorable, quanti?able “sound bytes” about yourself, assertions we’ll call Q statements.

What Is a Q Statement?
A Q statement is a sentence (or group of sentences) that expresses a numerical measurement of some action or accomplishment you have performed. It is quantitative. A Q statement is not vague; it’s exact. For example, rather than saying you “increased productivity,” using a Q statement, you would say that you “increased productivity by 25 percent.”

Why quantify a skill? Let’s take a look at the following statements and see which of them bears the most weight and leaves the longest-lasting impression:

Taken From: Fearless Interviewing