Online Guide to Employment

Action Verbs

Action verbs are positive words to use to show what you did in previous situations.

Management Skills

  • administered
  • analyzed
  • assigned
  • attained
  • chaired
  • contacted
  • consolidated
  • coordinated
  • delegated
  • directed
  • evaluated
  • executed
  • improved
  • increased
  • organized
  • oversaw
  • planned
  • prioritzed
  • produced
  • scheduled
  • strengthened
  • supervised

Communication Skills

  • addressed
  • arbitrated
  • arranged
  • authored
  • corresponded
  • developed
  • directed
  • drafted
  • edited
  • enlisted
  • formulated
  • influenced
  • interpreted
  • lectured
  • mediated
  • moderated
  • motivated
  • negotiated
  • persuaded
  • promoted
  • publicized
  • reconciled
  • recruited
  • translated
  • wrote

Research Skills

  • clarified
  • collected
  • critiqued
  • diagnosed
  • evaluated
  • examined
  • extracted
  • identified
  • inspected
  • interpreted
  • interviewed
  • investigated
  • organized
  • reviewed
  • summarized
  • surveyed

Technical Skills

  • adapted
  • administered
  • advised
  • clarified
  • coached
  • communicated
  • coordinated
  • developed
  • enabled
  • encouraged
  • evaluated
  • explained
  • facilitated
  • guided
  • informed
  • initiated
  • instructed
  • persuaded
  • presented
  • set goals
  • stimulated

Creative Skills

  • arranged
  • acted
  • conceptualized
  • created
  • decorated
  • designed
  • developed
  • directed
  • established
  • fashioned
  • founded
  • illustrated
  • instituted
  • integrated
  • introduced
  • invented
  • invented
  • performed
  • planned
  • revitalized

Helping Skills

  • assessed
  • assisted
  • clarified
  • coached
  • counseled
  • demonstrated
  • diagnosed
  • educated
  • expedited
  • facilitated
  • familiarized
  • guided
  • referred
  • rehabilitated
  • represented

Clerical Skills

  • approved
  • arranged
  • catalogued
  • classified
  • collected
  • compiled
  • executed
  • generated
  • implemented
  • organized
  • prepared
  • purchased
  • recorded
  • retrieved
  • screened
  • systemized
  • tabulated
  • validated

Financial Skills

  • administered
  • allocated
  • analyzed
  • appraised
  • audited
  • balanced
  • budgeted
  • calculated
  • computed
  • developed
  • forecasted
  • managed
  • marketed
  • planned
  • projected
  • researched

Manufacturing Skills

  • controlled
  • dispatched
  • drove
  • handled
  • inspected
  • maintained
  • monitored
  • operated
  • recommended
  • repaired
  • set up
  • specified

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