Action Verbs for Resumes
Put some of these action verbs in your job resume and cover letter to describe your skills and experiences.
- Accelerated
- Accomplished
- Adapted
- Adjusted
- Administered
- Advertised
- Advised
- Analyzed
- Announced
- Arranged
- Assembled
- Assisted
- Attained
- Balanced
- Built
- Calculated
- Catalogued
- Chaired
- Changed
- Collaborated
- Communicated
- Compared
- Complied
- Completed
- Computed
- Conceptualized
- Conducted
- Consolidated
- Constructed
- Consulted
- Contracted
- Converted
- Created
- Defined
- Delegated
- Demonstrated
- Deposited
- Designed
- Developed
- Devised
- Directed
- Distributed
- Drafted
- Edited
- Educated
- Eliminated
- Encouraged
- Entertained
- Established
- Estimated
- Evaluated
- Examined
- Executed
- Expanded
- Explained
- Fabricated
- Facilitated
- Familiarized
- Figured
- Filed
- Formulated
- Founded
- Generated
- Grouped
- Guided
- Handled
- Hired
- Identified
- Illustrated
- Implemented
- Improved
- Improvised
- Indexed
- Influenced
- Informed
- Initiated
- Innovated
- Inspected
- Installed
- Instituted
- Instructed
- Integrated
- Interviewed
- Kept record
- Launched
- Led
- Made
- Maintained
- Managed
- Marketed
- Moderated
- Modified
- Monitored
- Motivated
- Negotiated
- Obtained
- Operated
- Ordered
- Organized
- Packed
- Persuaded
- Pioneered
- Planned
- Prepared
- Presented
- Presided
- Processed
- Produced
- Programmed
- Promoted
- Proposed
- Publicized
- Recommended
- Recorded
- Recruited
- Redesigned
- Reduced
- Referred
- Related
- Repaired
- Reported
- Researched
- Restocked
- Revised
- Served
- Set up
- Shaped
- Simplified
- Sold
- Solved
- Sparked
- Specified
- Staffed
- Stimulated
- Streamlined
- Strengthened
- Stretched
- Structured
- Succeeded
- Summarized
- Surveyed
- Synthesized
- Tested
- Tracked
- Traded
- Trained
- Transformed
- Transmitted
- Tripled
- Typed
- Uncovered
- Unified
- Unraveled
- Upgraded
- Used
- Verified
- Wrote
