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Action Verb List

Here are action verbs you can use in your resume to describe your accomplishments and achievements.

 

  • Accelerate
  • Accomplish
  • Acquire
  • Achieve
  • Activate
  • Adapt
  • Administer
  • Advise
  • Align
  • Allocate
  • Analyze
  • Apply
  • Appraise
  • Approve
  • Arrange
  • Assemble
  • Assess
  • Assign
  • Assist
  • Attain
  • Authorize
  • Award
  • Budget
  • Build
  • Calculate
  • Change
  • Chart
  • Clarify
  • Classify
  • Coach
  • Collaborate
  • Collect
  • Combine
  • Communicate
  • Compare
  • Compile
  • Complete
  • Compose
  • Compute
  • Conclude
  • Conduct
  • Configure
  • Connect
  • Conserve
  • Consolidate
  • Construct
  • Consult
  • Contact
  • Contribute
  • Control
  • Convert
  • Convey
  • Convince
  • Coordinate
  • Counsel
  • Critique
  • Cultivate
  • Customize
  • Decide
  • Declare
  • Decline
  • Dedicate
  • Define
  • Delegate
  • Deliver
  • Demonstrate
  • Depreciate
  • Describe
  • Design
  • Determine
  • Develop
  • Devise
  • Diagnose
  • Direct
  • Dispatch
  • Dispense
  • Distribute
  • Document
  • Draft
  • Edit
  • Emphasize
  • Encourage
  • Enforce
  • Engineer
  • Enhance
  • Ensure
  • Establish
  • Estimate
  • Evaluate
  • Examine
  • Execute
  • Expand
  • Expedite
  • Explain
  • Facilitate
  • Finance
  • Focus
  • Forecast
  • Formulate
  • Foster
  • Fund
  • Furnish
  • Gain
  • Generate
  • Guide
  • Hire
  • Host
  • Identify
  • Illustrate
  • Implement
  • Improve
  • Improvise
  • Increase
  • Index
  • Influence
  • Inform
  • Initiate
  • Innovate
  • Inspire
  • Install
  • Institute
  • Integrate
  • Interact
  • Interview
  • Introduce
  • Investigate
  • Itemize
  • Join
  • Justify
  • Launch
  • Learn
  • Lecture
  • Led
  • Link
  • Maintain
  • Manage
  • Map
  • Market
  • Measure
  • Mediate
  • Merge
  • Mobilize
  • Modify
  • Monitor
  • Motivate
  • Negotiate
  • Observe
  • Obtain
  • Operate
  • Order
  • Organize
  • Originate
  • Outpace
  • Outperform
  • Participate
  • Perform
  • Persuade
  • Plan
  • Prepare
  • Present
  • Prevent
  • Prioritize
  • Produce
  • Program
  • Promote
  • Propose
  • Prospect
  • Prove
  • Provide
  • Publicize
  • Purchase
  • Pursue
  • Qualify
  • Rate
  • Recommend
  • Reconcile
  • Record
  • Recruit
  • Reduce
  • Refer
  • Refocus
  • Regulate
  • Reorganize
  • Repair
  • Replace
  • Report
  • Represent
  • Research
  • Restore
  • Restructure
  • Retrieve
  • Review
  • Revise
  • Revitalize
  • Schedule
  • Secure
  • Select
  • Serve
  • Share
  • Showcase
  • Simplify
  • Solve
  • Sponsor
  • Staff
  • Standardize
  • Suggest
  • Summarize
  • Supervise
  • Supply
  • Support
  • Surpass
  • Survey
  • Target
  • Teach
  • Test
  • Track
  • Train
  • Transform
  • Translate
  • Transport
  • Unite
  • Update
  • Upgrade
  • Validate
  • Verify
  • Volunteer
  • Yield

  • Job Interview Fun

    Just in case you thought you did poorly in a job interview, read these anecdotes from executives who actually encountered these situations during an interview:


    "... stretched out on the floor to fill out the job application."

    "While I was on a long-distance phone call, the applicant took out a copy of Penthouse, and looked through the photos only, stopping longest at the centerfold."

    "An applicant came in wearing only one shoe. She explained that the other shoe was stolen off her foot in the bus."

    "...asked me to show her the ladies  room, saying that it would be where she spent most of her time on the job."
     



     

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