Each point in your experience description should begin with an action verb (using past tense for previous experience and present tense for current experience) to make a vivid and powerful impression of you as a productive contributor—avoid personal pronouns altogether.
200 Resume Action Verbs
- Achieved
- Acted
- Adapted
- Addressed
- Administered
- Advised
- Aided
- Allocated
- Analyzed
- Approved
- Arbitrated
- Arranged
- Assembled
- Assessed
- Assigned
- Assisted
- Attained
- Authored
- Balanced
- Budgeted
- Built
- Calculated
- Chaired
- Checked
- Clarified
- Classified
- Coached
- Collaborated
- Collated
- Collected
- Communicated
- Compared
- Compiled
- Composed
- Computed
- Conceived
- Conceptualized
- Conducted
- Consolidated
- Constructed
- Contributed
- Controlled
- Converted
- Convinced
- Cooperated
- Coordinated
- Correlated
- Counseled
- Created
- Critiqued
- Customized
- deadlines
- Debated
- Decided
- Defined
- Delegated
- Delivered
- Demonstrated
- Designed
- Detailed
- Determined
- Developed
- Devised
- Diagnosed
- Directed
- Discovered
- Documented
- Doubled
- Drafted
- Drove
- Earned
- Edited
- Educated
- Effected
- Enabled
- Enforced
- Engineered
- Established
- Evaluated
- Examined
- Executed
- Expanded
- Expedited
- Experienced
- Experimented
- Explained
- Extrapolated
- Facilitated
- Figured
- Financed
- Followed
- Forecasted
- Formed
- Formulated
- Founded
- Gathered
- Generated
- Guided
- Handled
- Headed
- Helped
- Identified
- Illustrated
- Imagined
- Implemented
- Improved
- Improvised
- Increased
- Influenced
- Informed
- Initiated
- Innovated
- Inspected
- Inspired
- Installed
- Instituted
- Instructed
- Integrated
- Interpreted
- Interviewed
- Introduced
- Invented
- Investigated
- Issued
- Justified
- Keynoted
- Lectured
- Led
- Licensed
- Maintained
- Managed
- Marketed
- Mastered
- Mediated
- Mentored
- Merged
- Met
- Moderated
- Monitored
- Motivated
- Negotiated
- Observed
- Operated
- Organized
- Originated
- Overhauled
- Oversaw
- Participated
- Performed
- Persuaded
- Pioneered
- Planned
- Prepared
- Prioritized
- Problem solved
- Processed
- Produced
- Programmed
- Projected
- Promoted
- Proved
- Provided
- Publicized
- Recommended
- Reconciled
- Recruited
- Reduced
- Referred
- Reorganized
- Repaired
- Reported
- Represented
- Researched
- Retrieved
- Reviewed
- Revitalized
- Scheduled
- Served
- Set goals
- Shaped
- Simplified
- Solved
- Sparked
- Specified
- Spoke
- Strengthened
- Submitted
- Succeeded
- Summarized
- Supervised
- Surveyed
- Systemized
- Tabulated
- Tailored
- Tested
- Tracked
- Trained
- Upgraded
- Validated
- Wrote
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