Action Verbs are Your Resume’s Best Friends

Action verbs are your resume’s best friends.

Many people work on their resumes over the weekend. Before you take action, make sure you are using “Action” words to drive the attention of your intended audience.

Most resume bullet points start with the exact tired old words hiring managers have read over and over — to the point where they’ve lost a lot of their meaning. They also don’t do much to show off your accomplishments and instead tend to communicate your job duties.

So let’s get a little more creative, shall we?

Next time you update your resume, switch up some common words and phrases with strong, compelling action verbs that will catch hiring managers’ eyes.

Action verbs convey doing — for example, “She walked to the door,” or, “The dog chased the ball.”

On your resume, action verbs show readers that you accomplished something at your past jobs, you weren’t just “responsible for” it.

Instead you “streamlined” or “coordinated” or “executed” it. You got the job done and you achieved something in the process.