Action Verbs
Start off sentences with action verbs like the ones below, to convey both achievement and enthusiasm in your resumé.
- Accelerated
- Accommodated
- Accomplished
- Achieved
- Acquired
- Acted
- Activated
- Adapted
- Addressed
- Adjusted
- Administered
- Admitted
- Advanced
- Advised
- Aided
- Alleviated
- Allocated
- Allowed
- Amended
- Analyzed
- Anticipated
- Appointed
- Appraised
- Approved
- Approximated
- Arbitrated
- Arranged
- Assembled
- Assessed
- Attained
- Audited
- Augmented
- Authored
- Authorized
- Balanced
- Boosted
- Branded
- Budgeted
- Built
- Calculated
- Catalogued
- Centralized
- Certified
- Chaired
- Charted
- Checked
- Clarified
- Classified
- Coached
- Commissioned
- Communicated
- Compared
- Compiled
- Completed
- Composed
- Computed
- Conceived
- Conducted
- Conserved
- Consolidated
- Constructed
- Consulted
- Contracted
- Contributed
- Controlled
- Converted
- Convinced
- Cooperated
- Coordinated
- Correlated
- Corresponded
- Counseled
- Created
- Debugged
- Decided
- Deciphered
- Defined
- Delegated
- Deliberated
- Delivered
- Demonstrated
- Designed
- Detected
- Determined
- Developed
- Devised
- Diagnosed
- Directed
- Disbursed
- Dispatched
- Displayed
- Dissected
- Distributed
- Doubled
- Drafted
- Dramatized
- Drove
- Earned
- Edited
- Educated
- Elevated
- Elicited
- Eliminated
- Empathized
- Employed
- Empowered
- Enabled
- Encouraged
- Enforced
- Engineered
- Enhanced
- Enlarged
- Enriched
- Enumerated
- Envisioned
- Established
- Estimated
- Evaluated
- Executed
- Exercised
- Exhibited
- Expanded
- Expedited
- Experimented
- Explained
- Extracted
- Facilitated
- Familiarized
- Filed
- Finalized
- Financed
- Fixed
- Followed
- Forecasted
- Formulated
- Founded
- Gathered
- Gave
- Generated
- Grew
- Grouped
- Guided
- Handled
- Headed
- Helped
- Hired
- Identified
- Illustrated
- Implemented
- Improved
- Improvised
- Increased
- Indexed
- Influenced
- Informed
- Initiated
- Innovated
- Inspected
- Inspired
- Installed
- Instituted
- Instructed
- Integrated
- Interceded
- Interpreted
- Interviewed
- Invented
- Inventoried
- Investigated
- Involved
- Issued
- Judged
- Kept
- Launched
- Learned
- Lectured
- Led
- Licensed
- Linked
- Listened
- Logged
- Made
- Maintained
- Managed
- Marketed
- Measured
- Mediated
- Memorized
- Mentored
- Met
- Minimized
- Moderated
- Modernized
- Modified
- Monitored
- Motivated
- Moved
- Multiplied
- Navigated
- Negotiated
- Observed
- Obtained
- Offered
- Officiated
- Operated
- Orchestrated
- Ordered
- Organized
- Originated
- Overhauled
- Oversaw
- Perceived
- Performed
- Persuaded
- Photographed
- Piloted
- Pioneered
- Planned
- Played
- Polished
- Predicted
- Prepared
- Prescribed
- Presented
- Printed
- Prioritized
- Processed
- Procured
- Produced
- Programmed
- Projected
- Promoted
- Proofread
- Protected
- Provided
- Publicized
- Purchased
- Queried
- Questioned
- Raised
- Rated
- Read
- Realized
- Received
- Recommended
- Reconciled
- Recorded
- Recruited
- Rectified
- Reduced
- Referred
- Refined
- Reformed
- Regulated
- Rehabilitated
- Reinforced
- Related
- Relieved
- Remedied
- Remembered
- Remodeled
- Rendered
- Reorganized
- Repaired
- Reported
- Represented
- Researched
- Reserved
- Reshaped
- Resolved
- Responded
- Restored
- Retrieved
- Revamped
- Reversed
- Reviewed
- Revised
- Revitalized
- Sanctioned
- Satisfied
- Scheduled
- Screened
- Scrutinixzed
- Secured
- Selected
- Set
- Settled
- Set up
- Shared
- Showed
- Simplified
- Sketched
- Sold
- Solicited
- Solved
- Sought
- Spearheaded
- Specified
- Spoke
- Stimulated
- Streamlined
- Strengthened
- Studied
- Submitted
- Succeeded
- Suggested
- Summarized
- Supervised
- Supplemented
- Supplied
- Supported
- Surveyed
- Synthesized
- Tabulated
- Taught
- Tested
- Traced
- Trained
- Transacted
- Transcribed
- Transformed
- Translated
- Transmitted
- Treated
- Typed
- Unified
- Updated
- Upgraded
- Utilized
- Validated
- Valued
- Verified
- Wrote