Resume & Cover Letter Formatting
5. Action Verbs
Table of Contents
Resume and Cover Letter Formatting
- Modern Resume Formatting
- Resume Sections Explained
- Modern Cover Letter Formatting
- Sample Cover Letters
- Action Verbs
- AI Prompts for Stronger Applications
Sector Specific Resumes
Most accomplishment statements begin with some sort of action verb, this allows them to feel like they are an impact that happened instead of simply being a duty that was completed. If you’re looking for some inspiration you can try the more traditional list like University of Victoria has created or you could get inspiration from the Skills for Success.
To help you we have some examples here to get you started, they’re based off of the Skills for Success and Revised Blooms Taxonomy.
Action Verbs
| Achieved | Parsed | Judged |
| Adapted | Persisted | Learned |
| Addressed | Planned | Listened |
| Analyzed | Predicted | Made |
| Applied | Produced | Managed |
| Assembled | Provided | Mapped |
| Carried out | Recognized | Matched |
| Categorized | Reflected | Monitored |
| Checked | Regulated | Organized |
| Clarified | Represented | Outlined |
| Classified | Responded | Retrieved |
| Communicated | Executed | Reviewed |
| Compared | Exemplified | Revised |
| Concluded | Explained | Selected |
| Constructed | Extrapolated | Set |
| Contrasted | Facilitated | Sought |
| Coordinated | Focused | Spoke |
| Created | Gathered | Structured |
| Critiqued | Generalized | Summarized |
| Deconstructed | Generated | Tested |
| Demonstrated | Hypothesized | Translated |
| Designed | Identified | Used |
| Detected | Illustrated | |
| Determined | Implemented | |
| Developed | Inferred | |
| Differentiated | Instantiated | |
| Distinguished | Integrated | |
| Evaluated | Interpolated | |
| Paraphrased | Interpreted |
