Best Resume Words
Creating a resume? Here's one persons list of the best words for creating your resume. If you are looking to update your resume and need some power words for characterizing your skills and work contributions in a positive light, this list is for you. Take a quick break and quiz yourself using the words to power a hangman puzzle game. | Play Resume Hangman |  |
If you are looking for a good guide to refresh your efforts, try out "The Damn Good Resume Guide" by Yana Parker. Find it on Amazon
Here are some general ideas I've gleaned from the book. To help you get started.
Ten steps...
- Know your job target.
- Discover the knowledge, skills, and experience required for your job target.
- Create a list of your skills.
- Make a brief list of your accomplishments around each skill you listed.
- Reduce that list of accomplishments into short, simple descriptions using powerful action words.
- Create a list of jobs from your past and list them chronologically.
- Create a list of your education, and any training you've received.
- Pick a format for your resume which best suites your information.
- Place your action statements into the resume format you've chosen.
- Make a summary of your key points.
List of Resume Power Words
- accomplishments
- achieved
- acted
- adapted
- addressed
- administered
- advised
- allocated
- analyzed
- appraised
- approved
- arbitrated
- arranged
- assembled
- assessed
- assigned
- assisted
- attained
- audited
- authored
- balanced
- budgeted
- built
- calculated
- catalogued
- chaired
- clarified
- classified
- clerical
- coached
- collaborated
- collected
- communicated
- communication
- compiled
- computed
- conceptualized
- configured
- consolidated
- contracted
- convinced
- coordinated
- corresponded
- counseled
- created
- creative
- critiqued
- customized
- delegated
- demonstrated
- demystified
- designed
- detail
- developed
- devised
- diagnosed
- directed
- drafted
- edited
- educated
- enabled
- encouraged
- engineered
- enlisted
- established
- evaluated
- examined
- executed
- expanded
- expedited
- explained
- extracted
- fabricated
- facilitated
- fashioned
- financial
- for
- forecast
- formulated
- founded
- generated
- goals
- guided
- helping
- identified
- illustrated
- implemented
- improved
- increased
- influenced
- informed
- initiated
- inspected
- installed
- instituted
- instructed
- integrated
- interpreted
- interviewed
- introduced
- invented
- investigated
- lectured
- maintained
- managed
- management
- marketed
- mediated
- moderated
- monitored
- motivated
- negotiated
- operated
- organized
- originated
- overhauled
- oversaw
- performed
- persuaded
- pioneered
- planned
- prepared
- prioritized
- processed
- produced
- programmed
- projected
- promoted
- publicized
- purchased
- recommended
- reconciled
- recorded
- recruited
- reduced
- referred
- rehabilitated
- remodeled
- repaired
- represented
- research
- researched
- resolved
- restored
- retrieved
- reviewed
- revitalized
- scheduled
- screened
- set
- shaped
- skills
- solved
- spearheaded
- specified
- spoke
- stimulated
- strengthened
- summarized
- supervised
- surveyed
- systematized
- tabulated
- teaching
- technical
- trained
- transformed
- translated
- troubleshooting
- upgraded
- validated
- verbs
- wrote
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