Now a days it isn’t enough to just write a resume. With technology getting advanced, employers are taking advantage of these technologies to speed up the hiring process. This isn’t good for the job seeker, unless they know how to properly use the words in their resume and cover letter.
Resume scanners are used to scan a resume for certain keywords and action verbs to help pick the best candidate for the job. If your resume lacks these words, your resume will simply be discarded. It is stressed by professional resume writers that when writing your skills, accomplishments, and work experience, to use action verbs to strengthen your writing and make prospective employers take notice.
Below is an alphabetical listening of action verbs to use. If you notice any missing, please let us know and we will be pleased to update the list.
A
Accelerated, Accomplished, Achieved, Acquired, Acted, Activated, Adapted, Adopted, Addressed, Administered, Advised, Altered, Analyzed, Anticipated, Applied, Appointed, Appraised, Approved, Arbitrated, Arranged, Ascertained, Assembled, Assessed, Assisted, Assured, Attained, Audited
B
Balanced, Began, Boosted, Briefed, Budgeted, Built
C
Calculated, Cataloged, Charted, Checked, Clarified, Classified, Closed, Coached, Collected, Commanded, Communicated, Compared, Compiled, Completed, Composed, Computed, Conceived, Conceptualized, Concluded, Conducted, Confronted, Conserved, Consolidated, Constructed, Consulted, Continued, Contracted, Controlled, Converted, Coordinated, Corrected, Correlated, Counseled, Created, Critiqued
D
Dealt, Decided, Defined, Delegated, Delivered, Demonstrated, Depended, Designed, Detailed, Detected, Determined, Developed, Devised, Diagnosed, Directed, Discovered, Dispensed, Displayed, Disproved, Dissected, Distributed, Diverted, Doubled, Drafted, Dramatized, Drew, Drove
E
Earned, Edited, Educated, Effected, Eliminated, Enacted, Encouraged, Endured, Enforced, Engineered, Enhanced, Enlisted, Ensured, Entertained, Established, Estimated, Evaluated, Examined, Exceeded, Executed, Exhibited, Expanded, Expedited, Explained, Experimented, Expressed, Extracted
F
Fabricated, Facilitated, Fashioned, Filed, Finalized, Financed, Fixed, Focused, Followed, Forecasted, Formalized, Formed, Formulated, Fostered, Found, Founded, Fulfilled, Furnished
G
Gained, Gathered, Generated, Governed, Graduated, Grossed, Guided
H
Handled, Headed, Heightened, Helped, Hired, Honed, Hosted, Hypothesized
I
Identified, Illustrated, Imagined, Implemented, Improved, Improvised, Increased, Induced, Influenced, Informed, Initiated, Innovated, Inspected, Inspired, Installed, Instituted, Instructed, Insured, Integrated, Intensified, Interpreted, Interviewed, Introduced, Invented, Inventoried, Investigated
J
Joined, Judged, Justified
K
Kept
L
Launched, Learned, Lectured, Led, Licensed, Lifted, Listened, Located, Logged
M
Maintained, Managed, Manipulated, Manufactured, Mapped, Marketed, Measured, Mediated, Memorized, Mentored, Modeled, Modified, Monitored, Motivated
N
Named, Navigated, Negotiated, Netted, Nominated, Normalized, Noted
O
Observed, Obtained, Offered, Officiated, Operated, Ordered, Organized, Oriented, Originated, Overcame, Oversaw
P
Painted, Participated, Perceived, Perfected, Performed, Persuaded, Photographed, Piloted, Pinpointed, Pioneered, Placed, Planned, Played, Praised, Predicted, Prepared, Prescribed, Presented, Presided, Printed, Processed, Procured, Produced, Professed, Programmed, Progressed, Projected, Promoted, Proofread, Proposed, Protected, Proved, Provided, Publicized, Purchased
Q
Qualified, Questioned
R
Raised, Ranked, Rated, Realigned, Realized, Reasoned, Received, Recognized, Recommended, Reconciled, Recorded, Recruited, Reduced, Referred, Regulated, Rehabilitated, Reinforced, Related, Rendered, Reorganized, Repaired, Reported, Represented, Researched, Resolved, Responded, Restored, Retrieved, Restructured, Reviewed, Revised, Risked
S
Satisfied, Scheduled, Secured, Selected, Sensed, Separated, Served, Serviced, Shaped, Shared, Showed, Sketched, Simplified, Sold, Solved, Sorted, Specified, Spoke, Stimulated, Streamlined, Structured, Studied, Succeeded, Suggested, Summarized, Supervised, Supplied, Supported, Symbolized, Synthesized, Systemized
T
Tabulated, Talked, Targeted, Taught, Terminated, Tested, Tightened, Totaled, Tracked, Traded, Trained, Transcribed, Transferred, Transformed, Translated, Transmitted, Traveled, Treated, Troubleshot, Tutored, Typed
U
Uncovered, Undertook, Unified, United, Updated, Upgraded, Used, Utilized
V
Validated, Verbalized, Verified, Vitalized, Volunteered
W
Weighed, Won, Worked, Wrote, Widened
