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| Power Words To Build a Resume: |
| Action Words for Achievement |
These are words to use in an achievement that you have accomplished at your present or former job. Use these words in the description of your present or last job held to describe your position in more detail and what you actually did while you held that position. For example, use these words to describe your actions: "While employed I secured and selected new products lines for the sales line for the holiday season."
administered increased responsible, approved influenced responsibilities, provided tied together accelerated, actively, adapted, administered, assessed, authority, automated, behavior management, built up, concentrated, conscientiously, considered, dealt, decided, decreased, defined, delegated, delivered, demonstrated, deployed, derived, detailed, detected, determined, developed, devised, diagnosed, diffused, directed, directly, diverted, discovered, discussed, dispatched, dispensed, displayed, disposed, disproved, distinguished, distributed, educated, elected, elevated, enabled, encouraged, enrolled, ensured, established, experimented, expanded , expedited, explained, explored, fashioned, generated, guided, improved, in charge, headed, lead, people handling skills, initiated, installed, instilled, involved, notably, overview, originated, originally, performed, planned, praised, programmed, prime emphasis on, pushed, reduced, reinforced, reorganized, reinstalled, reviewed, scheduled, screened, sculptured, searched, secured, seized, selected, sent, shaped, successfully, significantly, sound, sparked, spent, weathered, weighed, widened, withstood |
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| Actions Words for Accomplishments(Action words for education, community involvement, and your others interests or hobbies) |
The use of these words would be for activities that you held outside of work or how you a made certain circumstances work for you. For example, volunteer work you have completed that made a difference in the community or in a school, or a listing on your resume where you list something that you have done that effects others besides boosting your paycheck.
Aided, arranged, assisted, actively, adapted, administered, approved, blended, boosted, bought, branded, broadened, brought, completed, conceived, conducted, conferred, created, conducted completed conferred, delegated, developed, designed, developed, demonstrated, directed, effected, eliminated, established, expanded, expedited, generated, guided, implemented, interpreted, increased, influenced, improved, identified, indicated, induced, influenced, informed, infused, launched, launched, led, eliminated, effected, launched learned, lectured, leveraged, lifted, limited, liquidated, listened, located, maintained, observed, organized, participated, performed, planned, pinpointed, programmed, proposed, provided, proficient, recommended, reduced, reinforced, reorganized, revamped, responsible, reviewed, revised, responsibilities, revised, represented, researched, rallied, ranked, rated, reached, read, realigned, realized, rearranged, reasoned, rebuilt, received, recognized, revamped reviewed revised, simplified, set up, scheduled, simplified, solved, streamlines, solved, strategy, structured, streamlined, strengthened, settled, shaped, shortened, showed, simplified, slashed, solidified, spearheaded, specialized, started, steered, strengthened, supervised, successfully, scheduled, simplified, triggered, volunteered |
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| Personality Descriptions |
When you give the reviewer additional information about yourself and your personality, you are making yourself appear before them more than on a piece of paper in their hand you are giving them insider information about yourself and how you perceive your abilities. Expanding on these words for your verbal use during your interview will also be good practice for that popular question, "Tell me something about yourself".
Ability to think alone, accurate, active, adaptable, aggressive, alert, ambitious, analytical, acquainted, careful, common sense, conscientious constructive creative fast thinking, dependable detailed, disciplined, discrete, efficiently, energetic, enthusiastic, error free, excellent, fast, figures, first, follow through, forceful, frank, giving, great, hard worker, honor, ideas person, imaginative logical, loyal, memorable, methodical, objective, official, operational, organized, oriented, orderly, perfectionist, people person, personable, perceptive, persuasive, practical, precise, probing, problem solving, pay attention, realistic, ready, reliable, resourceful, respected, self-reliant, sincere, sophisticated, systematic, tactful, talented, thinker, well organized, well lined, well rounded, will travel, will relocate |
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| Positive Words that get Attention |
The addition of additional positive words through out your resume and through out your cover letter will be an important factor in catching the attention of the resume reviewer. When you use positive words you will reveal more about your personality and your outlook in seeking a new career.
Accomplished, Achieved, Activated, Approved, Conceived, Consolidated, Contribution, Completed, Conducted, Ended, Established, Exceeded, Generated, Headed, Improved, Implemented, Increased, Introduced, Pioneered, Presented, Processed, Redesigned, Rectified, Reduced, Reorganized, Researched, Strengthened, Stretched, Succeeded, Traded, Translated, Transformed, Trimmed |
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