Power Verbs by Category | Dice Tech Career Tool Kit
Power verbs bring your resume to life. They paint a picture for the reviewer by highlighting your skills and accomplishments, affirm your communication skills, and help you stand out in a crowd. Begin each statement or phrase with a power verb, then take you resume to the next level, by inserting action-packed power verbs into your work history and branding statement.
Tip: Remember to use present tense verbs in your profile and qualifications summary and when creating task, responsibility and accomplishment bullets for a current position. Use past-tense verbs to describe prior positions and experience in your work history. There are literally thousands of verbs to choose from, so feel free to share your favorites.
| • Absorbed | • Discharged | • Prepared |
| • Accounted for | • Dissolved | • Prioritized |
| • Accrued | • Dispensed | • Procured |
| • Acted | • Dispersed | • Projected |
| • Adopted | • Doubled | • Promoted |
| • Administered | • Economized | • Provisioned |
| • Aligned | • Elevated | • Pruned |
| • Allocated | • Eliminated | • Quantified |
| • Amended | • Enacted | • Ratcheted |
| • Anticipated | • Ensured | • Rated |
| • Appointed | • Estimated | • Reapportioned |
| • Appraised | • Examined | • Recognized |
| • Appropriated | • Executed | • Recommended |
| • Approved | • Extracted | • Recruited |
| • Assessed | • Facilitated | • Redefined |
| • Audited | • Forecasted | • Reinforced |
| • Augmented | • Fought | • Reigned in |
| • Authorized | • Fulfilled | • Reorganized |
| • Avoided | • Furnished | • Researched |
| • Benchmarked | • Funded | • Restructured |
| • Budgeted | • Gained | • Required |
| • Calculated | • Gauged | • Reversed |
| • Capitalized | • Governed | • Reviewed |
| • Carried out | • Hired | • Revised |
| • Carved out | • Injected | • Risked |
| • Cemented | • Intervened | • Saved |
| • Charged | • Justified | • Seized |
| • Charted | • Leveraged | • Set goals |
| • Checked | • Magnified | • Sharpened |
| • Chose | • Managed | • Shortened |
| • Commanded | • Mandated | • Slashed |
| • Commended | • Maneuvered | • Solicited |
| • Compared | • Measured | • Sourced |
| • Complied | • Mitigated | • Supervised |
| • Contracted | • Monitored | • Sustained |
| • Controlled | • Mounted | • Terminated |
| • Convened | • Navigated | • Transferred |
| • Critiqued | • Normalized | • Trimmed |
| • Cut | • Off shored | • Tripled |
| • Decided | • Orchestrated | • Turned |
| • Deduced | • Outsourced | • Vetted |
| • Delineated | • Oversaw | • Weighed |
| • Delegated | • Planned | • Withstood |
| • Designated | • Praised | |
| • Directed | • Predicted |
