Put Your Resume On Steroids (Long)

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---------Put Your Resume On Steroids - A little language goes a long way. To prepare the most effective resume, you must know what market you are trying to target. Your resume should:Stimulate prospective employers' interest in meeting you and in arranging a personal interview. Notice that stimulating interest is not the same as telling everything about you. Give a face-to-face interviewer a framework for discussion. Many interviewers rely on your resume to guide and stimulate their questioning. Generate interest and leave the hiring manager wanting to know more.
Use action verbs to describe accomplishments. Action Verbs for Accomplishment Statements

G
Generated | Governed | Grouped | Guided

H
Handled | Headed | Helped | Hired

J
Judged | Justified

N
Negotiated |

O
Obtained | Operated | Organized | Originated | Oversaw

V
Vacated | Verified | Vitalized

W
Widened | Withdrew | Won | Worked | Wrote

Written by - Joe Hodowanes, M.P.A., S.P.H.R.
Joe Hodowanes is President of J.M. Wanes & Associates, Career Strategy Advisors. Contact them at (813) 908-7116, or visit them at www.jmwanes.com.[This message has been edited by uncle ber (edited 05-10-2001).]

Ber
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Got this in my e-mail today from Brainbuzz.com - thought it might come in handy for those of you looking to switch jobs, get a job, etc.

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Put Your Resume On Steroids - A little language goes a long way.

To prepare the most effective resume, you must know what market you are trying to target. Your resume should:

Stimulate prospective employers' interest in meeting you and in arranging a personal interview. Notice that stimulating interest is not the same as telling everything about you.

Give a face-to-face interviewer a framework for discussion. Many interviewers rely on your resume to guide and stimulate their questioning.

Generate interest and leave the hiring manager wanting to know more.
Use action verbs to describe accomplishments.

Action Verbs for Accomplishment Statements

A
Accelerated | Accomplished | Achieved | Acquired | Acted | Activated | Adapted | Addressed | Administered | Advertised | Advised | Advocated | Affected | Allocated | Amended | Analyzed | Anticipated | Appointed | Appraised | Approved | Arranged | Assembled | Assessed | Assisted | Assumed | Audit | Augmented | Averted | Avoided
B
Based | Bought | Broadened | Budgeted | Built |
C
Calculated | Captured | Catalogued | Centralized | Challenged | Changed | Clarified | Collaborated | Collated | Collected | Combined | Communicate | Compiled | Completed | Composed | Conceived | Concluded | Condensed | Conducted | Consolidated | Controlled | Constructed | Consummated | Contacted | Contracted | Converted | Conveyed | Coordinated | Corrected | Corresponded | Counseled | Created | Cultivated | Cut
D
Decentralized | Decreased | Defined | Delegated | Delivered | Demonstrated | Designed | Determined | Developed | Devised | Directed | Disapproved | Discovered | Disseminated | Distributed | Documented | Doubled | Drafted |
E
Earned | Edited | Eliminated | Established | Employed | Enforced | Encouraged | Engineered | Enlarged | Established | Estimated | Entrusted | Evaluated | Executed | Exercised | Exhibited | Expanded | Expedited | Explained | Exposed | Extracted
F
Facilitated | Forecast | Formed | Formulated | Fortified | Founded | Framed | Fulfilled
G
Generated | Governed | Grouped | Guided
H
Handled | Headed | Helped | Hired
I
Identified | Implemented | Improved | Improvised | Increased | Incurred | Informed | Initiated | Innovated | Inspected | Installed | Instigated | Instituted | Instructed | Insured | Interpreted | Interviewed | Introduced | Invented | Investigated | Isolated
J
Judged | Justified
L
Launched | Led | Lightened | Liquidated | Localized | Located
M
Maintained | Managed | Marketed | Minimized | Moderated | Modified | Monitored | Motivated |
N
Negotiated |
O
Obtained | Operated | Organized | Originated | Oversaw
P
Perceived | Performed | Pioneered | Planned Prepared | Presented | Presided | Prevented Processed | Procured | Produced | Programmed | Promoted | Proposed | Proved | Provided | Published | Publicized | Purchased
R
Reacted | Received | Recommended | Recorded | Recruited | Rectified | Redesigned | Reduced | Referred | Refined | Regulated | Rejected | Related | Renegotiated | Reorganized | Replaced | Reported | Represented | Researched | Reshaped | Resolved | Revamped | Reviewed | Revised | Revitalized
S
Saved | Scheduled | Secured | Selected | Serviced | Settled | Set up | Separated | Served | Shaped | Simplified | Singled out | Sold | Solved | Sparked | Specified | Spoke | Staffed | Standardized | Started | Streamlined | Strengthened | Stressed | Stretched | Structured | Studied | Submitted | Succeeded | Summarized | Superseded | Supervised | Supplied | Supported | Surpassed | Surveyed | Systematized | Systemized
T
Taught | Terminated | Tested | Traced | Tracked | Trained | Transferred | Transformed | Trimmed | Tripled |
U
Uncovered | Undertook | Unearthed | Unified | Unraveled | Upgraded | Used | Utilized
V
Vacated | Verified | Vitalized
W
Widened | Withdrew | Won | Worked | Wrote

Written by - Joe Hodowanes, M.P.A., S.P.H.R.
Joe Hodowanes is President of J.M. Wanes & Associates, Career Strategy Advisors. Contact them at (813) 908-7116, or visit them at www.jmwanes.com.

[This message has been edited by uncle ber (edited 05-10-2001).]

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