Powerful Action Verbs for Your Resume
Action verbs by skill type
- Communication skills
- Addressed
- Advertised
- Authored
- Called
- Circulated
- Coached
- Collaborated
- Communicated
- Composed
- Conferred
- Contacted
- Convinced
- Conveyed
- Corresponded
- Directed
- Discussed
- Drafted
- Edited
- Elicited
- Emphasized
- Explained
- Formulated
- Influenced
- Informed
- Instructed
- Interpreted
- Lectured
- Listened
- Mediated
- Moderated
- Negotiated
- Oriented
- Persuaded
- Presented
- Promoted
- Publicized
- Recommended
- Reconciled
- Recruited
- Redirected
- Referred
- Related
- Represented
- Resolved
- Showed
- Spoke
- Translated
- Transmitted
- Tutored
- Wrote
- Creative skills
- Acted
- Adapted
- Authored
- Composed
- Conceptualized
- Created
- Conceived
- Customized
- Designed
- Developed
- Directed
- Established
- Estimated
- Fashioned
- Forecasted
- Formulated
- Founded
- Illustrated
- Initiated
- Instituted
- Integrated
- Introduced
- Invented
- Investigated
- Modified
- Originated
- Performed
- Planned
- Proposed
- Researched
- Revised
- Revitalized
- Shaped
- Solved
- Studied
- Interpersonal skills
- Accommodated
- Adjusted
- Advised
- Agreed
- Arranged
- Assisted
- Communicated
- Consulted
- Contributed
- Cooperated
- Counseled
- Facilitated
- Guided
- Influenced
- Mediated
- Moderated
- Modified
- Motivated
- Negotiated
- Personalized
- Persuaded
- Presented
- Provided
- Reconciled
- Related
- Requested
- Respected
- Served
- Sold
- Taught
- Leadership skills
- Administered
- Allocated
- Appointed
- Approved
- Assigned
- Authorized
- Awarded
- Conducted
- Controlled
- Delegated
- Designated
- Directed
- Disapproved
- Discharged
- Encouraged
- Enforced
- Evaluated
- Executed
- Governed
- Hired
- Led
- Managed
- Mentored
- Oversaw
- Presided
- Recommended
- Regulated
- Required
- Selected
- Settled
- Signed
- Specified
- Sponsored
- Stipulated
- Supervised
- Research skills
- Adapted
- Analyzed
- Applied
- Built
- Calculated
- Clarified
- Collected
- Compared
- Computed
- Conducted
- Critiqued
- Designed
- Developed
- Devised
- Diagnosed
- Engineered
- Evaluated
- Examined
- Extracted
- Fabricated
- Gathered
- Identified
- Installed
- Interpreted
- Interviewed
- Investigated
- Located
- Maintained
- Operated
- Organized
- Overhauled
- Programmed
- Remodeled
- Repaired
- Replaced
- Researched
- Reviewed
- Solved
- Standardized
- Summarized
- Surveyed
- Systematized
- Tested
- Utilized
- Technical skills
- Adapted
- Analyzed
- Applied
- Assembled
- Automated
- Built
- Calculated
- Compared
- Computed
- Constructed
- Debugged
- Designed
- Developed
- Engineered
- Implemented
- Installed
- Maintained
- Operated
- Performed
- Programmed
- Rebuilt
- Re-designed
- Repaired
- Restored
- Solved
- Specialized
- Standardized
- Tested
- Upgraded
- Verified