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Powerful Words for a Winning Resume

Powerful Words for a Winning Resume

Check out these powerful words for a winning resume.

By Roxana Hadad

March 12, 2009

Whether it be your leadership skills, your ability to work with people or your creative talents, you need to use the right language to convey your credentials. Use active words like these to give your resume a powerful punch:

Accelerated
Accomplished
Achieved
Adapted
Advised
Administered
Analyzed
Approved
Arranged
Assembled
Budgeted
Built
Calculated
Completed
Conceived
Conducted
Coordinated
Created
Delegated
Delivered
Demonstrated
Designed
Developed
Devised
Directed
Edited
Established
Estimated
Evaluated
Expanded
Formulated
Founded
Headed
Generated
Implemented

Improved
Improvised
Increased
Initiated
Innovated
Inspected
Installed
Instituted
Interpreted
Introduced
Invented
Launched
Led
Maintained
Managed
Mediated
Motivated
Negotiated
Operated
Organized
Originated
Performed
Planned
Presented
Produced
Processed
Programmed
Proposed
Promoted
Provided
Recruited
Redesigned
Reduced
Reorganized

Researched
Revised
Scheduled
Serviced
Set up
Simplified
Sold
Solved
Started
Streamlined
Strengthened
Structured
Succeeded
Summarized
Superseded
Supervised
Supported
Traced
Traded
Trained
Transferred
Transformed
Translated
Trimmed
Uncovered
Unified
Updated
Used
Utilized
Vacated
Verified
Withdrew
Won
Worked
Wrote

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