The language you use in your résumé says a lot about what type of employee you are and your competency level. The following pages will help you choose words that are applicable and relevant to portray the best image of your abilities.
- Actively
- Established
- Evaluate
- Participated
- Schedule
- Coordinate
- Increased
- Proposed
- Strategy
- Created
- Launched
- Reduced
- Support
- Effect
- Eliminate
- Organized
- Originate
- Approve
- Generate
- Program
- Solve
- Control
- Improve
- Recommend
- Supervise
- Direct
- Manage
- Motivated
- Responsibilities
- Revise
- Analyze
- Founded
- Pinpointed
- Set up
- Completed
- Interpret
- Proficient
- Successfully
- Demonstrate
- Maintain
- Revamped
- Responsible
- Administer
- Expedite
- Plan
- Simplicity
- Conduct
- Implemented
- Provide
- Streamline
- Develop
- Lecture
- Reorganized
- Accelerated
- Adapted
- Expanded
- Perform
- Significantly
- Conceived
- Influence
- Proved
- Structure
- Delegate
- Lead
- Reinforced
- Teach
- Professional
- Active
- Diplomatic
- Loyal
- Respective
- Analytical
- Attentive
- Determined
- Logical
- Resourceful
- Ambitious
- Efficient
- Energetic
- Independent
- Reliable
- Alert
- Economical
- Objective
- Optimistic
- Realistic
- Aggressive
- Discrete
- Methodical
- Sense-of-humor
- Sincere
- Adaptable
- Disciplined
- Mature
- Self-reliant
- Broad-minded
- Enterprising
- Personable
- Tactful
- Creative
- Imaginative
- Perceptive
- Systematic
- Constructive
- Forceful
- Productive
- Sophisticated
- Consistent
- Fair
- Practical
- Will relocate
- Conscientious
- Extroverted
- Positive
- Will travel
- Enthusiastic
- Pleasant
- Talented
- Dependable
- Trustworthy
- Ethical
- Ability to delegate
- Accurate
- Assertive
- Creative
- Ethical
- Follow up
- Leadership
- Oral communication
- Public speaking
- Self accountable
- Supportive
- Tenacious
- Ability to implement
- Adaptable
- Communication skill
- Customer oriented
- Flexible
- High energy
- Multitasking
- Organizational skills
- Results oriented
- Self management
- Takes initiative
- Willing to travel
- Ability to plan
- Aggressive
- Competitive
- Detail minded
- Follow instructions
- Industrious
- Open minded
- Persuasive
- Risk taking
- Sensitive
- Team building
- Ability to train
- Analytical ability
- Conceptual ability
- Empowering others
- Follow through
- Innovated
- Open communication
- Problem solving
- Safety conscious
- Setting priorities
- Team player
Occupational keywords include skills, titles, and occupational buzzwords.
- Account manager
- Accounts receivable
- Acquisitions
- Bachelors Degree
- Bank Card
- Bank reconciliation
- Batch processing
- Benchmarking
- Blueprint reading
- Brochures
- Budget
- Bulletins
- CAD
- Calibrator
- Carpentry
- Cash Flow
- Cell Culture Media
- Cement
- Child Care
- Claims Justification
- Commercial Leasing
- Copy Editing
- Counselor
- Crisis Management
- Cross-culture training
- Debugging
- Decision making
- Demographics
- Dental management
- Die casting
- Dietitian
- Drywall
- Ecology
- Electronics
- Employee assistance
- Engineer
- Financial planning
- Food preparation
- Gas pipeline
- Goal setting
- Graphic design
- Grant writer
- Guest services
- Harnessing
- Hiring/firing
- Hotel
- ISO 9000
- Journalism
- Journeyman
- Layout design
- Logic analyzer
- Magnetic theory
- Manager
- Marketing
- Master’s Degree
- Microprocessor
- Microsoft word
- Nursing
- Oscillator
- Pelletizing
- Patient advocate
- Payroll
- Personal computer
- Process metallurgy
- Proposal writing
- Psychology
- Public Relations
- Purchasing
- Radio
- Raw materials
- Receptionist
- Reporter
- Research
- Sales
- Secretarial
- Software modeling
- Spanish
- Spreadsheets
- Statistical Process Control
- Stick Welding
- Strategic Planning
- Student Personnel
- Supervisor
- Taxonomy
- Teacher
- Technical Writing
- Time Management
- Transportation
- Travel
- Wave Solder
- WordPerfect
- Workflow
- Writer
Action Words
- Assembled
- Enforced
- Prepared
- Reorganized
- Collected
- Executed
- Planned
- Scheduled
- Centralized
- Formalized
- Processed
- Updated
- Coordinated
- Implemented
- Routed
- Catalogued
- Maintained
- Recorded
Research and Planning: the search for specific knowledge and the ability to conceptualize future needs and solutions for meeting those needs.
- Forecasting, predicting
- Creating ideas
- Identifying problems
- Imagining alternatives
- Identifying resources
- Gathering information
- Solving problems
- Setting goals
- Extracting important information
- Defining needs
- Analyzing
- Developing evaluation strategies
Human Relations: the use of interpersonal skills for resolving conflict, relating to and helping people.
- Developing rapport
- Being Sensitive
- Listening
- Conveying feelings
- Providing support for others
- Motivating
- Sharing credit
- Counseling
- Cooperating
- Delegating with respect
- Representing others
- Perceiving feelings, situations
- Asserting
The organization, Management, and Leadership: the ability to supervise, direct and guide individuals and groups in the completion of tasks and fulfillment of goals. Work Survival: the day-to-day skills that assist in promoting effective production and work satisfaction.
- Implementing decisions
- Cooperating
- Enforcing policies
- Being punctual
- Managing time
- Attending to detail
- Meeting goals
- Enlisting help
- Accepting responsibility
- Setting and meeting deadlines
- Organizing
- Making decisions
- Initiating new ideas
- Handling details
- Coordinating tasks
- Managing groups
- Delegating responsibility
- Teaching
- Coaching
- Counseling
- Promoting change
- Selling ideas or products
- Decision making with others
- Managing conflict