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Action Words

The following list of action words can describe your experiences and skills to a prospective employer. Use action words in your resume to detail your duties and accomplishments. Use the past tense unless you are describing a current job.

Planning and organizing

  • acted
  • appraised
  • arranged
  • chaired
  • charted
  • conceptualized
  • coordinated
  • created
  • designed
  • developed
  • devised
  • facilitated
  • formulated
  • generated
  • innovated
  • mapped
  • motivated
  • organized
  • originated
  • planned
  • prioritized
  • provided
  • recorded
  • reorganized
  • synthesized
  • upgraded
  • updated

Oral/written communication

  • addressed
  • advertised
  • communicated
  • corresponded
  • detailed
  • drafted
  • edited
  • explained
  • interpreted
  • marketed
  • persuaded
  • prescribed
  • publicized
  • recruited
  • responded
  • revised
  • rewrote
  • sold
  • spoke
  • suggested
  • talked
  • translated
  • wrote

Supervisory/Leadership

  • activated
  • administered
  • advised
  • assessed
  • assisted
  • audited
  • budgeted
  • changed
  • controlled
  • delegated
  • delivered
  • determined
  • directed
  • diverted
  • enforced
  • established
  • estimated
  • expedited
  • governed
  • headed
  • hired
  • implemented
  • instituted
  • lead
  • maintained
  • managed
  • mentored
  • presided
  • promoted
  • solved
  • supervised
  • unified

Interpersonal/instructional

  • coached
  • conciliated
  • confronted
  • consolidated
  • counseled
  • demonstrated
  • dramatized
  • educated
  • expressed
  • helped
  • influenced
  • informed
  • inspired
  • instructed
  • mediated
  • modeled
  • negotiated
  • reasoned
  • recommended
  • reconciled
  • stimulated
  • taught
  • trained
  • tutored

Research/investigation

  • calculated
  • catalogued
  • classified
  • collected
  • compiled
  • computed
  • detected
  • dissected
  • evaluated
  • examined
  • extracted
  • indexed
  • figured
  • identified
  • inspected
  • inventoried
  • investigated
  • located
  • measured
  • reported
  • researched
  • studied

Teamwork/teambuilding

  • built
  • collaborated
  • constructed
  • effected
  • supported

Work attitudes

  • ascertained
  • completed
  • improvised
  • innovated
  • integrated
  • observed
  • performed
  • piloted
  • pioneered
  • vitalized


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