November 8th, 2009 | Category: Resume |

Use These Resume Power Words with Confidence

A
accomplished	advertised	arranged	achieved	advised
assembled	acquired	analyzed	assisted	adapted
adjusted	approved	augmented	appraised	audited
administered	arbitrated	authored

B
budgeted	built

C
calculated	conceived	coordinated	completed	controlled
cataloged	conceptualized	copyrighted	composed	convinced
charted	conducted	corrected	consulted	created
closed (a deal)	consolidated	corresponded	contacted	cultivated
coached	constructed	counseled	compared	compiled

D
debugged	detected	discovered	designated	diagnosed
decreased	determined	dispatched	designed	directed
delegated	developed	distributed	devised	documented
delivered

E
edited	enhanced	examined	estimated	expanded
elicited	enlarged	exceeded	evaluated	explained
eliminated	established	executed	empowered	engineered

F
fired	flagged	formulated	founded

G
gathered	generated	guided

H
headed	hired

I
identified	initiated	interpreted	increased	instituted
ignited	innovated	interviewed	influenced	instructed
implemented	invented	inspected	installed	inventoried
improved

J
justified

L
lectured	lobbied	logged	led

M
maintained	mediated	motivated	manufactured	monitored
managed	modified

N
negotiated

O
obtained	ordered	overhauled	operated	organized

P
patented	prepared	programmed	posted	proficient
performed	presented	promoted	processed	provided
persuaded	presided	proposed	produced	purchased
placed	planned

Q
quantified	qualified

R
recognized	reorganized	researched	referred	represented
recommended repaired	restored	revised	regulated	rescued
reconciled	replaced	reviewed	reduced	reported

S
scheduled	sold	suggested	served	streamlined
screened	solved	supervised	simplified	studied
selected	steered	supplied	systematized

T
taught	tracked	transcribed	trained	translated
tested	traced

U
updated	utilized

V
vended

W
won	wrote

As a practice exercise, take your old resume, and at random, look for places to insert good power words. Watch how quickly your old resume will be transformed!

Make good use of adjectives when writing your resume.

Remember, an Adjective Describes. When writing your resume you want to be able to describe all that is important to you and your accomplishments.

Write with description and your resume will be more interesting!