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How to use action verbs in resume and cover letter benefit statements

This is VERY important. Use this format:

Action verb - Tell what you did - State the result (cost savings, increased sales, etc.).

Examples:

• Reduced expenses by comparative shopping and saved the company $100k over six months
• Applied lean startup principles from product idea to release and grew sales to one million in just one year

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Resume Action Verbs
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Action Verbs A-Z

• achieved
• acted
• activated
• adapted
• addressed
• adjusted
• administered
• advised
• aided
• allocated
• altered
• analyzed
• applied
• appraised
• approved
• arbitrated
• arranged
• assembled
• assessed
• assigned
• assisted
• attained
• audited
• authored
• balanced
• brought
• budgeted
• built
• calculated
• catalogued
• chaired
• clarified
• classified
• coached
• collected
• communicated
• compared
• compiled
• composed
• computed
• conceived
• conceptualized
• consolidated
• contracted
• coordinated
• corresponded
• counseled
• created
• critiqued
• dealt
• decided
• defined
• delegated
• demonstrated
• described
• designed
• detected
• developed
• devised
• diagnosed
• directed
• dispatched
• disproved
• drafted
• edited
• educated
• enabled
• encouraged
• engineered
• enlisted
• established
• estimated
• evaluated
• examined
• executed
• expedited
• explained
• extracted
• fabricated
• facilitated
• familiarized
• fashioned
• forecast
• forecasted
• formed
• formulated
• founded
• gathered
• generated
• guided
• handled
• helped
• identified
• illustrated
• implemented
• improved
• incorporated
• increased
• influenced
• informed
• initiated
• inspected
• inspired
• instituted
• instructed
• integrated
• interpreted
• interviewed
• introduced
• invented
• investigated
• launched
• lectured
• led
• listed
• loaded
• maintained
• managed
• marketed
• mediated
• moderated
• modified
• molded
• monitored
• motivated
• negotiated
• observed
• operated
• organized
• originated
• outlined
• overhauled
• oversaw
• perceived
• performed
• persuaded
• planned
• prepared
• presented
• prioritized
• processed
• produced
• programmed
• projected
• promoted
• proofread
• publicized
• published
• purchased
• recommended
• reconciled
• recorded
• reduced
• reevaluated
• referred
• refined
• rehabilitated
• rejected
• remodeled
• renegotiated
• repaired
• reported
• represented
• researched
• retrieved
• reunited
• reviewed
• rewrote
• scheduled
• screened
• searched
• set goals
• sold
• solved
• specified
• spoke
• stimulated
• streamlined
• strengthened
• studied
• summarized
• supervised
• supported
• surveyed
• systematized
• taught
• trained
• translated
• united
• updated
• upgraded
• upheld
• wrote
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