The following is a list of resume action verbs and power words to use in your resumes and cover letters. Use these resume action verbs / resume power words to write a compelling resume.
- Absorb
- Accelerate
- Access
- Accomplish
- Accrue
- Acquire
- Achieve
- Act
- Activate
- Adapt
- Address
- Adjust
- Administer
- Advertise
- Advise
- Advocate
- Affirm
- Aid
- Alert
- Align
- Allocate
- Analyze
- Apply
- Appraise
- Approve
- Arbitrate
- Arranged
- Assemble
- Assess
- Assign
- Assist
- Attain
- Authorize
- Award
- Begin
- Brief
- Bring
- Broadcast
- Budget
- Build
- Calculate
- Campaign
- Certify
- Chaired
- Change
- Chart
- Check
- Choose
- Clarify
- Classify
- Coach
- Collaborate
- Collate
- Collect
- Combine
- Communicate
- Compare
- Compile
- Complete
- Comply
- Compose
- Compute
- Conceptualize
- Conclude
- Condense
- Conduct
- Confer
- Configure
- Connect
- Conserve
- Consolidate
- Construct
- Consult
- Contact
- Continue
- Contribute
- Control
- Convert
- Convey
- Convince
- Coordinate
- Correspond
- Counsel
- Critique
- Cultivate
- Customize
- Decide
- Declare
- Decline
- Decorate
- Dedicate
- Define
- Delegate
- Deliver
- Demonstrate
- Depreciate
- Describe
- Design
- Determine
- Develop
- Devise
- Diagnose
- Direct
- Dispatch
- Dispense
- Distribute
- Document
- Draft
- Edit
- Educate
- Emphasize
- Encourage
- Enforce
- Engineer
- Enhance
- Ensure
- Establish
- Estimate
- Evaluate
- Examine
- Execute
- Expand
- Expedite
- Explain
- Fabricate
- Facilitate
- Finance
- Focus
- Forecast
- Formulate
- Foster
- Fund
- Furnish
- Gain
- Generate
- Graduate
- Greet
- Guide
- Handle
- Help
- Hire
- Host
- Identify
- Illustrate
- Implement
- Improve
- Improvise
- Increase
- Index
- Influence
- Inform
- Initiate
- Innovate
- Inspire
- Install
- Institute
- Integrate
- Interact
- Interview
- Introduce
- Investigate
- Itemize
- Join
- Justify
- Launch
- Learn
- Lecture
- Led
- Lessen
- Lift
- Link
- Listen
- Maintain
- Manage
- Manipulate
- Map
- Market
- Measure
- Mediate
- Merge
- Mobilize
- Modify
- Monitor
- Motivate
- Negotiate
- Observe
- Obtain
- Open
- Operate
- Order
- Organize
- Originate
- Outpace
- Outperform
- Participate
- Perform
- Persuade
- Plan
- Prepare
- Present
- Prevent
- Printed
- Prioritize
- Process
- Produce
- Program
- Promote
- Propose
- Prospect
- Prove
- Provide
- Publicize
- Purchase
- Pursue
- Qualify
- Run
- Rate
- Reach
- Receive
- Recommend
- Reconcile
- Record
- Recruit
- Reduce
- Refer
- Refocus
- Regulate
- Reorganize
- Repair
- Replace
- Report
- Represent
- Research
- Reserve
- Resolve
- Respond
- Restore
- Restructure
- Retrieve
- Review
- Revise
- Revitalize
- Schedule
- Screen
- Search
- Secure
- Select
- Send
- Serve
- Share
- Seize
- Showcase
- Simplify
- Solve
- Sort
- Specialize
- Specify
- Sponsor
- Staff
- Standardize
- Start
- Succeed
- Suggest
- Summarize
- Supervise
- Supply
- Support
- Surpass
- Survey
- Sustain
- Target
- Teach
- Test
- Track
- Trade
- Train
- Transact
- Transcribe
- Transform
- Translate
- Transmit
- Transport
- Tutor
- Unite
- Update
- Upgrade
- Use
- Utilize
- Validate
- Value
- Verify
- View
- Volunteer
- Watch
- Weigh
- Witness
- Write
- Yield
