Business development covers a lot: partnerships, new markets, new revenue. Upload your CV and see whether yours makes clear what you opened up and what it was worth.
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The review checks your CV against these, section by section.
What we see most often, and what to do instead.
Meetings as achievements
"Met with 50 potential partners" is a calendar. Say how many signed and what they brought in.
Vague job title, vague CV
Business development means different things at different companies. Say in one line what you were hired to grow.
Partnerships with no number
Every partnership should carry a figure: revenue, users, leads or cost saved.
The kind of rewrite every section of your review comes back with.
Developed strategic partnerships to drive growth.
Signed 6 distribution partners across Kenya and Ghana that delivered 18% of new revenue ($640K) within 12 months.
Why it works: How many, where, and what they were worth.
Use the ones you can back up with experience. Applicant tracking systems and recruiters both scan for them, and both notice a list with nothing behind it.
Choose Sales, then your level. The review reads for new revenue and the relationships that produced it, which is what most business development roles are judged on.
Split your bullets by outcome: direct revenue you closed, then partner-sourced revenue. Each should carry its own number.
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