More Resume Action Words To Boost Your Job Application

Did you know that powerful resume action words can invigorate your description of your accomplishments and skills?

When you use language like this effectively, you can lay emphasis on the positive benefits you brought to your previous roles. This is a compelling technique to show the value you offer to a prospective employer and it can pep up an otherwise 'vanilla' recitation of job details.

Make sure when you use these that:

• you take every opportunity to to give amounts, figures or data as evidence of what you achieved
• you highlight those aspects of your experience that most closely match what the employer seems to be looking for
• that your description of your work history is reliable and truthful -- avoid the temptation to embroider on the facts!

If you're still trying to figure out how to write a resume that will stand out from the dozens or hundreds of others that the recruiter may have to read, take a look at the language you use to describe your most important achievements.

Here are some ideas of resume words that can add value to your profile when properly used:

• did you have financial responsibility or control? Some suggested verbs:
  
  audited
  budgeted
  calculated
  purchased
  
• did you implement a system?
  
  administered
  catalogued
  compiled
  coordinated
  inventoried
  operated
  processed
  programmed
  scheduled
  systematized
  tracked
  
• did you introduce something new?
  
  authored
  conceived
  developed
  established
  formulated
  initiated
  invented
  patented
  
• did you exercise your judgment?
  
  appraised
  arbitrated
  estimated
  interpreted
  recommended
  reviewed
  screened

These are words that help you in other parts of your job application as well as when drafting a resume.

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