Welcome to the Action Verb Stable
Some tips:
- Action verbs give life to résumés
- Be active, not passive
- Don’t repeat action verbs in your accomplishment statements
- Use the correct tense
- Let the other candidates be boring.
MassHire Lowell Career Center offers this list of verbs free of charge. Feel free to borrow any for your own résumé writing purposes.
Achieved
Acquired
Administered
Advanced
Advised
Advocated
Aligned
Amplified
Amplified
Analyzed
Arbitrated
Assembled
Assessed
Attained
Audited
Authored
Authorized
Awarded
Blocked
Boosted
Briefed
Built
Calculated
Campaigned
Capitalized
Centralized
Chaired
Charted
Clarified
Coached
Co-authored
Completed
Composed
Conserved
Consolidated
Consulted
Controlled
Converted
Conveyed
Convinced
Coordinated
Corresponded
Counseled
Created
Critiqued
Cultivated
Customized
Decreased
Deducted
Defined
Delegated
Delivered
Demonstrated
Designed
Developed
Devised
Diagnosed
Directed
Discovered
Dispatched
Documented
Earned
Edited
Educated
Enabled
Enforced
Engineered
Enhanced
Ensured
Established
Evaluated
Examined
Exceeded
Executed
Expanded
Expedited
Explored
Facilitated
Fielded
Forecasted
Forged
Formalized
Formed
Formulated
Fostered
Founded
Furthered
Gained
Generated
Guided
Headed
Hired
Identified
Illustrated
Implemented
Improved
Incorporated
Influenced
Informed
Initiated
Inspected
Inspired
Instituted
Integrated
Interpreted
Introduced
Investigated
Itemized
Launched
Lessened
Lifted
Lobbied
Mapped
Maximized
Measured
Mentored
Merged
Mobilized
Modified
Monitored
Motivated
Navigated
Negotiated
Operated
Orchestrated
Organized
Outpaced
Outperformed
Overhauled
Oversaw
Partnered
Persuaded
Pioneered
Planned
Produced
Programmed
Promoted
Publicized
Qualified
Quantified
Reached
Reconciled
Recruited
Redesigned
Reduced
Refined
Refocused
Regulated
Rehabilitated
Remodeled
Reorganized
Replaced
Resolved
Restructured
Revamped
Reviewed
Revitalized
Screened
Scrutinized
Secured
Shaped
Showcased
Simplified
Spearheaded
Standardized
Stimulated
Streamlined
Strengthened
Succeeded
Supervised
Surpassed
Surveyed
Sustained
Targeted
Taught
Tested
Tracked
Trained
Transformed
United
United
Updated
Upgraded
Verified
Yielded
Avoid these Weak Words
- Responsible for
- Worked
- Participated in
- Made
- Took
- Showed
- Used
- Maintained
- Helped
- Assisted
- Utilized
- Supported