The Creativity Process
More500 Action Verbs
Resume Action Verbs
Resume sentences about responsibilities should start with action verbs. The stronger the verb, the better.
Examples:
Okay: Documented all procedures.
Better: Wrote procedure manual.
Okay: Coordinated five employees.
Better: Directed five employees.
Okay: Conceived new process.
Better: Created new process.
| Accelerated | Accomplished | Achieved | Acquired | Acted |
| Activated | Adapted | Added | Addressed | Adhered |
| Adjusted | Administered | Adopted | Advanced | Advertised |
| Advised | Advocated | Aided | Allocated | Amended |
| Amplified | Analyzed | Answered | Anticipated | Applied |
| Appointed | Appraised | Approved | Arbitrated | Arranged |
| Ascertained | Assembled | Assessed | Assigned | Assisted |
| Attained | Attracted | Audited | Augmented | Authored |
| Authorized | Averted | Awarded | Balanced | Bargained |
| Began | Bought | Broadened | Budgeted | Built |
| Calculated | Capitalized | Captured | Cataloged | Catalogued |
| Centralized | Chaired | Changed | Channeled | Charted |
| Checked | Circulated | Clarified | Classified | Coached |
| Collaborated | Collected | Combined | Commissioned | Committed |
| Communicated | Compared | Compiled | Completed | Composed |
| Computed | Conceived | Conceptualized | Concluded | Condensed |
| Conducted | Conferred | Conserved | Consolidated | Constructed |
| Consulted | Contacted | Contracted | Contrasted | Contributed |
| Controlled | Converted | Conveyed | Convinced | Coordinated |
| Corrected | Correlated | Corresponded | Counseled | Created |
| Critiqued | Cultivated | Customized | Cut | Debugged |
| Decentralized | Decided | Decreased | Deferred | Defined |
| Delegated | Delivered | Demonstrated | Demystified | Depreciated |
| Designated | Designed | Detected | Determined | Developed |
| Devised | Devoted | Diagnosed | Diagrammed | Directed |
| Disclosed | Discovered | Dispatched | Dispensed | Displayed |
| Distributed | Diverted | Divested | Documented | Doubled |
| Drafted | Dramatized | Drew | Earned | Edited |
| Educated | Effected | Elected | Eliminated | Emphasized |
| Employed | Enabled | Encouraged | Enforced | Engineered |
| Enhanced | Enlarged | Enlisted | Ensured | Entertained |
| Established | Estimated | Evaluated | Examined | Exceeded |
| Exchanged | Executed | Exempted | Expanded | Expedited |
| Experimented | Explained | Explored | Expressed | Extended |
| Extracted | Fabricated | Facilitated | Familiarized | Fashioned |
| Finalized | Financed | Fired | Focused | Forecasted |
| Formalized | Formed | Formulated | Fortified | Fostered |
| Found | Founded | Framed | Fulfilled | Functioned |
| Furnished | Gained | Gathered | Gauged | Generated |
| Governed | Granted | Guaranteed | Guided | Handled |
| Headed | Heightened | Helped | Hired | Hosted |
| Hypothesized | Identified | Illustrated | Implemented | Improved |
| Improvised | Incorporated | Increased | Influenced | Informed |
| Initiated | Innovated | Inquired | Inspected | Inspired |
| Installed | Instilled | Instituted | Instructed | Insured |
| Integrated | Interacted | Interpreted | Interviewed | Introduced |
| Invented | Inventoried | Invested | Investigated | Involved |
| Issued | Joined | Judged | Launched | Learned |
| Lectured | Led | Lightened | Liquidated | Listened |
| Litigated | Lobbied | Localized | Located | Logged |
| Made | Maintained | Managed | Manipulated | Mapped |
| Marketed | Matched | Maximized | Measured | Mediated |
| Merchandised | Merged | Met | Minimized | Modeled |
| Moderated | Modernized | Modified | Monitored | Motivated |
| Multiplied | Navigated | Negotiated | Netted | Nominated |
| Observed | Obtained | Offered | Opened | Operated |
| Orchestrated | Ordered | Organized | Originated | Outlined |
| Overhauled | Oversaw | Painted | Participated | Patterned |
| Perceived | Performed | Permitted | Persuaded | Photographed |
| Piloted | Pinpointed | Pioneered | Placed | Planned |
| Predicted | Prepared | Presented | Presided | Prevented |
| Printed | Prioritized | Probed | Processed | Procured |
| Produced | Programmed | Projected | Promoted | Proposed |
| Protected | Proved | Provided | Publicized | Published |
| Purchased | Pursued | Qualified | Quantified | Questioned |
| Quoted | Raised | Ranked | Rated | Read |
| Realized | Reasoned | Received | Recommended | Reconciled |
| Reconstructed | Recorded | Recovered | Recruited | Rectified |
| Redesigned | Reduced | Referred | Refined | Regulated |
| Rehabilitated | Reinforced | Related | Remodeled | Rendered |
| Renegotiated | Reorganized | Repaired | Replaced | Reported |
| Represented | Requested | Researched | Resolved | Responded |
| Restored | Restructured | Retained | Retrieved | Revamped |
| Reviewed | Revised | Revitalized | Routed | Salvaged |
| Satisfied | Saved | Scheduled | Screened | Searched |
| Secured | Selected | Separated | Served | Serviced |
| Set Goals | Settled | Shaped | Shared | Showed |
| Shrank | Simplified | Simulated | Sketched | Sold |
| Solicited | Solved | Sparked | Spearheaded | Specialized |
| Specified | Speculated | Spoke | Sponsored | Spread |
| Stabilized | Staffed | Staged | Standardized | Started |
| Stimulated | Strategized | Streamlined | Strengthened | Stressed |
| Stretched | Structured | Studied | Submitted | Substantiated |
| Succeeded | Suggested | Summarized | Supervised | Supplied |
| Supported | Surpassed | Surveyed | Symbolized | Synthesized |
| Systematized | Tabulated | Tailored | Targeted | Taught |
| Tended | Terminated | Tested | Tightened | Traced |
| Tracked | Traded | Trained | Transacted | Transcribed |
| Transferred | Transformed | Translated | Transmitted | Transported |
| Traveled | Trimmed | Tripled | Tutored | Uncovered |
| Undertook | Unified | United | Unraveled | Updated |
| Upgraded | Used | Utilized | Vacated | Validated |
| Verbalized | Verified | Volunteered | Weighed | Widened |
| Withstood | Won | Worked | Wrote |
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