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Revamping your Resume?
Punch it up with Power Verbs
and Phrases! |
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175 Power Verbs and
Phrases for Resumes, Cover Letters, and Interviews
By
Cheryl Lynch Simpson |
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While you’re revamping your resume or cover
letter or constructing your proof-by-example stories for interviews, you’ll
find you need to watch your word choice. Why? Communication is powerful if
the words we use to communicate are powerful. That’s not all it takes, but
the right words make for a good beginning.
So as you craft achievement statements or
write paragraphs that sell your skills or draft interview responses to knock
the employers’ socks off, consider these suggestions:
- Use verbs in active
tense, not passive tense.
- Use verbs that convey
power and action.
- Use verbs that claim
the highest level of skill or achievement you can legitimately claim.
- Use verbs to
accurately describe what you have done on the job.
- Use adjectives and
adverbs sparingly, but when you use them, use them well.
- Use nouns that are as
specific and as descriptive as possible.
- Use numbers whenever
possible.
- Use the most
impressive (and still honest) form of the number you use.
- Never lie! It IS NOT
worth it. It WILL catch up with you.
- Proofread all your
verbs and nouns for agreement, tense and appropriateness.
Here, then, are 175 powerful verbs and
phrases to make use of in resumes, cover letters and interviews: |
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- abated
- abolished
- accelerated
- accomplished
- achieved
- actively participated
- administered
- advanced
- advised
- aggressively analyzed
- applied
- assumed a key role
- authored
- automated
- built
- hired
- closed
- coached
- co-developed
- codirected
- co-founded
- cold called
- collected
- co-managed
- communicated
- completed
- computerized
- conceptualized
- conducted
- consolidated
- contained
- contracted
- contributed
- controlled
- convinced
- coordinated
- cost effectively
created
- critiqued
- cut
- dealt effectively
- decreased
- defined
- delivered
- designed
- developed
- developed and applied
- directed
- doubled
- earned
- eliminated
- emphasized
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- enforced
- established
- evaluated
- exceeded
- executed
- exercised
- expanded
- expedited
- facilitated
- filled
- focused
- formulated
- fostered
- founded
- gained
- generated
- ground-breaking
- headed up
- helped
- identified
- implemented
- improved
- increased
- initiated
- innovated
- instituted
- instructed
- integrated
- interviewed
- introduced
- investigated
- lectured
- led
- leveraged
- maintained
- managed
- marketed
- motivated
- negotiated
- orchestrated
- organized
- outmaneuvered
- overcame
- oversaw
- penetrated
- performed
- permitted
- persuaded
- planned
- played a key role
- positioned
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- prepared
- presented
- prevented
- produced
- profitably
- project managed
- promoted
- proposed
- prospected
- protected
- provided
- published
- quadrupled
- ranked
- received
- recommended
- recruited
- reduced
- removed
- renegotiated
- replaced
- researched
- resolved
- restored
- restructured
- reversed
- satisfied
- saved
- scheduled
- scoped out
- selected
- self-financed
- set up
- sold
- solved
- staffed
- started
- stopped
- streamlined
- substituted
- supervised
- taught
- tightened
- took the lead in
- trained
- trimmed
- tripled
- troubleshooted
- turned around
- upgraded
- yielded
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While you certainly can use the list anytime
you’re looking to say something in a more powerful way, you can also use it
to help jog your memory about accomplishments on present and past jobs that
you might otherwise overlook. Also, consider using the list to help you
refine your resumes and cover letters to be more powerful in their
presentation and communication.
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Cheryl Lynch Simpson is a Spiritual Director and Solutions
Coach who helps women discover and create the life they've always
wanted to live. Cheryl is the author of over 30 print/Internet articles
and the founder of Coaching Solutions For Women, a
coaching website that produces and showcases career, business, and life
solutions that improve the life balance of today's busy women. For a
complimentary copy of her latest e-book, Ten-Minute Stress
Zappers for Women Service Business Owners, visit
http://www.coachingsolutionsforwomen.com. Article Source:
http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Cheryl_Lynch_Simpson |
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