• My team identi?ed four as-yet-unknown species of ?ora and fauna in the mountainous regions of California.

• I reduced overhead by 25 percent while increasing profits by 43 percent annually.

• I designed a microchip that is 23 percent more reliable than its predecessor.

• I introduced an on-site safety program that decreased workers’ compensation claims by 18 percent in 1 year.

• I process more than 250 customer requests daily.

• I won an award for decreasing materials costs from $6.41 per inch to $5.20 per inch.

• I have overseen the landscape design on over 200 projects, costing up to $350,000 per project.

After reading all these different Q statements, you probably see a pattern emerging. First, they all contain action words—verbs such as designed, initiated, saved, processed, and handled. Second, they all end with some sort of number, expressed in monetary amounts, time, and percentages, and numerical amounts of people, actions, or things.
The “formula” for a Q statement would look something like this:

Taken From: Fearless Interviewing