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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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