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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.
• Accelerated | • Equipped | • Qualified |
• Added | • Evaluated | • Quality Assured |
• Adopted | • Expunged | • Ranked |
• Aggregated | • Extended | • Realigned |
• Analyzed | • Extracted | • Rebooted |
• Applied | • Extrapolated | • Rebuilt |
• Assembled | • Fabricated | • Reconciled |
• Authenticated | • Finalized | • Reconstructed |
• Automated | • Fine-Tuned | • Recovered |
• Backed-up | • Formatted | • Rectified |
• Balanced | • Functionalized | • Re-engineered |
• Blocked | • Grouped | • Refreshed |
• Boosted | • Hosted | • Reinforced |
• Branched | • Identified | • Rehabilitated |
• Bridged | • Implemented | • Released |
• Built | • Initialized | • Remodeled |
• Bundled | • Installed | • Replicated |
• Calculated | • Integrated | • Restored |
• Calibrated | • Isolated | • Retooled |
• Certified | • Launched | • Retrieved |
• Changed | • Licensed | • Retrofitted |
• Checked | • Linked | • Revamped |
• Classified | • Loaded | • Revised |
• Cleaned | • Maintained | • Road mapped |
• Cleansed | • Manufactured | • Rolled out |
• Cleared | • Mapped | • Rotated |
• Coded | • Mechanized | • Routed |
• Collocated | • Merged | • Safeguarded |
• Computed | • Migrated | • Salvaged |
• Computerized | • Mined | • Scanned |
• Configured | • Mirrored | • Scoped |
• Consolidated | • Mobilized | • Scrubbed |
• Constructed | • Modeled | • Secured |
• Corrected | • Modified | • Selected |
• Debugged | • Moved | • Sequenced |
• Deciphered | • Networked | • Solved |
• Decoded | • Neutralized | • Stabilized |
• Dedicated | • Operated | • Standardized |
• Defended | • Optimized | • Straddled |
• Delivered | • Overhauled | • Systematized |
• Deployed | • Packaged | • Tested |
• Digitized | • Patched | • Toggled |
• Discovered | • Penetrated | • Traced |
• Dispatched | • Pinpointed | • Transitioned |
• Distributed | • Prevented | • Updated |
• Duplicated | • Prioritized | • Upgraded |
• Enabled | • Processed | • Validated |
• Engineered | • Programmed | • Verified |
• Enhanced | • Protected | • Virtualized |
• Eradicated | • Prototyped | • Web-enabled |
• Estimated | • Provisioned |
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