The Resume Words Every Job Seeker Needs To Know

Finding a job these days can be both time consuming and difficult. It seems that there are hundreds of applicants for every position that’s advertised. Job seekers need to do everything they can to prove themselves the best candidate for the job and having a professional resume is essential. This article will discuss the resume words that job seekers should be using to turn their resumes into effective tools that highlight their skills and experience.

When writing a resume it is beneficial to put yourself in the position of an employer whose job it is to look through dozens of resumes while trying to identify a suitable candidate. Naturally any resumes that are hard to read and understand, as well as those that don’t seem relevant and possibly all those that are poorly written with spelling and grammatical errors will all be discarded. This will help to narrow down those resumes that deserve more attention and time spent on them. So it is common sense to make sure that your resume does not fall into any of the above categories.

It has been proven that using action oriented words will increase the effectiveness of your resume. Quite often job seekers will use passive words in their resume and when rewritten the effect can be quite dramatic. Some example action resume power words are listed below;

- accelerated, analysed, created, developed, documented, enabled, established, implemented, led, maintained, presented, published, reduced, researched, solved, tested.

Some passive words that are best avoided as they don’t really say very much are also listed below;

- assist, assisted, experiment, skilfully, effectively, carefully, quickly, expert, mastered, cutting-edge, detail-oriented, coordinate, facilitate, transform, proven, ability, synergy, liaison, responsible for.