Akhundova began her career as a stenographer and then worked as an editor for the Committee of Azerbaijani Television and Radio broadcasting from 1977 until 1980.
She was elected as secretary for the Azerbaijani Writers' Federation in 1991 and as a member of the State Forgiveness Commission in 1995.
Akhundova has been a docent of the translation theory and practise department at Baku Slavic University since 2002.
Her other books include It is forgiven by rescript (in Russian) in 2000, A death of polygraphic worker in 2001, and Reality moment, Alovsat Guliyev: he was creating a history, This is us and Live time in 2003.
In 2009, her six volume official biography Heydar Aliyev: Personality and Epoch was released after a decade's research on the national leader.