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50 Action Words for Your Resume

October 29, 2009 (2:00PM) by Brianna Raymond, CPRW

You might think you have an awesome resume, but I bet it's missing some very important pieces—like powerful action words. A resume that's chock-full of phrases like responsible for, participated in, or contributed to isn't the worst thing on earth, but it doesn't say what you actually did in your job. So take that same resume from okay to great by replacing those simple, boring phrases with some punch-packing, meaningful verbs to describe your skills and accomplishments. And because there are 50 of those action words right in this very post, you no longer have an excuse for submitting a dull resume!

Oh, and if you're not sure what a word means, don't use it! Your resume is supposed to represent you, not a version of you who uses bigger words.

Resume action words

Is your favorite power word not on this list? Leave it in a comment below!

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Comments (4)

Brianna, I don't know if it was your decision on someone else's, but making the text available for readers to copy & paste from is more important than putting it in an image to preventing scrapers from stealing it.

Posted by: Jacob Share | November 22, 2009 at 4:46 AM | Quote This Comment
My thoughts exactly Brianna, when I find articles like this one, I like to copy and past in to a frequent reference file that I save in my resume folder.

Posted by: TDWay | November 30, 2009 at 11:37 AM | Quote This Comment
Simply right click on the image and click copy image. Then you can save it in a Word Document.

Posted by: Charlene Ridley | January 06, 2010 at 3:52 AM | Quote This Comment
Thanks for posting....this list is extremely helpful.

Posted by: Lynette McKnight | January 06, 2010 at 1:11 PM | Quote This Comment

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