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Action and Descriptive Words

 Action Words
You may use the following descriptive or action words for resumes, cover letter preparation and interviewing:
 Descriptive Words

You may use the following words to describe yourself in cover letters, resumes, interviews and thank you letters:
 

Accelerate
Accomplish
Achieve
Acquire
Act/Perform
Adapt
Administer
Advance
Advertise
Advise
Analyze
Anticipate
Apply
Appraise
Approve
Arrange
Assemble
Assess
Assist
Assign
Attain
Audit
Authorize
Automate
Balance Bargain
Budget
Build
Buy
Calculate
Care
Carry
Catalog
Chair
Change
Chart
Choose/Chose
Classify
Clean
Clerk
Coach
Collaborate
Collect
Color
Communicate
Compare
Compile
Complete
Compose
Comprehend
Compute
Concentrate
Conceptualize
Conclude
Conduct
Confront
Connect
Consolidate
Construct/Build
Contact
Contract
Control
Convert
Cooperate
Coordinate
Copy
Correspond
Corroborated
Counsel
Create
Critique
Cultivate
Decide
Decrease
Define
Delegate
Demonstrate
Describe
Designate
Design
Detail
Detect
Develop
Devise
Diagnose
Discover
Display
Distribute
Documented
Draft Draw/Drew
Edit
Educate
Employed
Encourage
Enforced
Endure
Engineer
Ensured
Entertain
Establish
Estimate
Evaluate
Examine
Exchange
Execute
Exhibit
Expedite
Explain
Fabricated
Facilitate
Filed
Familiarize
Figure
Financed
Fit
Follow
Forecast
Foresee
Forge
Formalize
Formulate
Gather
Generate
Govern
Grade
Grind
Grow/Raise
Guide
Handle
Help
Hire
Identify
Illustrate
Imagine
Implement
Improve
Improvise
Increase
Index
Influence
Inform
Initiate
Innovate/Invent
Inspect
Inspire
Install
Institute
Instruct
Integrate
Interact
Interpret
Interview
Inventory
Investigate
Judge
Justify
Lead
Lift
Liquidate
Listen
Load
Locate
Made
Maintain
Manage
Manipulate
Market
Master
Measure
Mediate
Memorize
Mentor
Merchandise
Model
Moderate
Modify
Monitor
Motivate
Move
Navigate
Negotiate
Nurture
Observe
Obtain
Operate
Order
Organize
Originate
Participate
Perceive
Perform
Persist
Persuade
Photograph
Place
Plan
Predict
Prepare
Present
Preside
Print
Problem/Solve
Process
Procure
Produce
Program
Promote
Proofread
Protect
Provide
Publicize
Publish
Purchase
Push/Pull
Question
Rate
Read
Reason/Reconcile
Recommend
Record
Recruit
Redesign
Reduce
Refer
Reinforce
Relate
Reorganize
Repair
Report
Represent
Research
Resolve
Respond
Restore
Retrieve
Revise
Review
Scan
Schedule
Screen
Search
Secure
Separate
Select
Serve
Shape
Sketch
Solve
Sort
Speak/Spoke
Specified
Staff
Standardize
Steer
Stimulate
Stock
Streamline
Strengthen
Structure
Study
Summarize
Supervise
Support
Survey
Systemize
Teach/Taught
Tailor
Track
Train
Transcribe
Transfer
Transform
Transmit
Translate
Travel
Treat
Tutored
Type
Unify
Update
Upgrade
Utilize
Visualize
Volunteer
Write/Wrote
 
Active
Accurate
Adaptable
Adventurous
Ambitious
Artistic
Assertive
Broad-minded
Business-like
Calm
Capable
Careful
Cautious
Cheerful
Clear-thinking
Clever
Competent
Competitive
Confident
Conscientious
Conservative
Considerate
Cooperative
Courageous
Creative
Curious
Deliberate
Democratic
Dependable
Determined
Dignified
Discreet
Eager
Easygoing
Efficient
Energetic
Enterprising
Enthusiastic
Fair-minded
Farsighted
Flexible
Friendly
Good-natured
Hard working
Helpful
Honest
Humorous
Idealistic
Imaginative
Independent
Individualistic
Industrious
Ingenious
Innovative
Intellectual
Intelligent
Inventive
Logical
Loyal
Mature
Methodical
Meticulous
Moderate
Motivated
Open-minded
Optimistic
Organized
Original
Outgoing
Patient
Persevering
Pleasant
Poised
Polite
Practical
Precise
Progressive
Prudent
Punctual
Purposeful
Quick
Rational
Realistic
Reasonable
Reflective
Relaxed
Reliable
Reserved
Resourceful
Responsible
Robust
Self-confident
Self-controlled
Self-motivated
Sensible
Sensitive
Serious
Sharp-witted
Sincere
Sociable
Spontaneous
Stable
Steady
Strong
Strong-minded
Sympathetic
Tactful
Teachable
Team-player
Tenacious
Thorough
Thoughtful
Tolerant
Tough
Trusting
Trustworthy
Unassuming
Understanding
Verbal
Versatile