Be active, not passive… replace the passive words in your resume with these action verbs, we’re sure you can find some you like…
| Abbreviated Accented Accentuated Accepted Accessed Accomplished Achieved Acquired Activated Adapted Adjudicated Administered Advanced Advised |
Advocated Aided Aimed Allocated Allotted Alphaed Ameliorated Amplified Analyzed Anticipated Applied Appointed Apportioned Appraised |
Apprised Appropriated Approved Argued Armed Aroused Arranged Arranged Arrayed Articulated Ascertained Ascribed Assaulted Assembled |
Assessed Assigned Assumed Assured Attained Augmented Authenticated Authored Authorized Automated Averted |
| Back-channeled Balanced Banned Bartered Battered Began |
Bested Betaed Bettered Bid Blasted Blended |
Blistered Blueprinted Booted Bootstrapped Brainstormed Broadcast |
Broke Brokered Budgeted Built Branded |
| Campaigned Canned Carved Cautioned Chaired Championed Charged Charmed Charted Chartered Chose Christened Circumnavigated Claimed Clarified Classified |
Clawed Cleaned Closed Coaxed Collaborated Collected Combined Commanded Commandeered Commissioned Communicated Compacted Completed Composed Comprised Compromised |
Computerized Conceived Concentrated Concepted Concluded Condensed Conducted Conferred Confirmed Conquered Conserved Consolidated Constructed Consulted Consummated Contracted |
Contrived Controlled Conveyed Coordinated Cornered Corralled Correlated Counseled Crafted Crashed Created Culled Cultivated Curated |
| Data dumped Dealt Deciphered Decoded Delegated Deliberated Delivered Depicted |
Derived Designated Designed Detected Determined Devalued Developed Devised |
Devolved Diagnosed Diagrammed Dictated Directed Disbursed Disclosed Dispatched |
Dispensed Distilled Distributed Dominated Downloaded Drafted Drove |
| Earned Eased Economized Edited Editorialized Elevated Elicited Embellished Emphasized Employed Empowered Enabled |
Enacted Encompassed Encouraged Enforced Engaged Engineered Enlarged Enlisted Ensured Entitled Enriched Envisioned |
Epitomized Erased Erected Escalated Established Evaluated Evolved Exacted Exalted Examined Exchanged Executed |
Exemplified Expanded Expedited Expressed Expropriated Extended Extolled Extracted Extruded Exulted |
| Facilitated Familiarized Farmed Fashioned Featured Filed Fire-tested Fired |
Firewalled Fixed Flamed Focused Followed Forced Forged Forecast |
Foresaw Forewarned Formed Formulated Fortified Fostered Founded Framed |
Front-channeled Fronted Fulfilled Fumigated Functioned Furthered Found |
| Galvanized Game-planned Ganged Garaged |
Garnered Garnished Gave Generated |
Gerrymandered Girded Going for the gold Governed |
Granted Grew Guided |
| Hacked Hampered Handled |
Harassed Hatched Heightened |
Held Helped Herded |
Highlighted Honed |
| Identified Illustrated Imagined Imagineered Impinged Implemented Imposed Impressed Inaugurated Increased |
Incubated Inculcated Induced Influenced Informed Ingrained Initiated Inspected Inspired Installed |
Instituted Instructed Integrated Intensified Interfaced Interlocked Internetworked Interpreted Interred Intersected |
Intertwined Introduced Inundated Invented Investigated Issued Italicized |
| Jilted | Joined | Jousted | Judged |
| Labored Lambasted Launched Laundered |
Learned Lectured Led Levied |
Liaised Localized Located Locked |
Locked In Locked On Logged Logged On |
| Magnified Maimed Mainstreamed Maintained Managed Mandated Maneuvered |
Manned Mapped Marginalized Marked Marketed Married Mastered |
Matriculated Measured Merchandised Merged Merited Met Moderated |
Monitored Moored Motivated |
| Named Narrated Narrowed Navigated |
Negated Negotiated Nested Netted |
Neutered Neutralized Nominalized Normalized |
Notified |
| Obtained Ombudsmanned Operated |
Opined Orchestrated Ordered |
Organized Originated Outreached |
Overcame Oversaw |
| Packaged Panned Paralleled Parleyed Patterned Penned Perfected Permitted Persuaded Pictured Piloted Pinpointed |
Pioneered Placed Planned Planted Pointed Polished Positioned Posted Postured Prepared Presented Presided |
Prevailed Prevented Procured Produced Programmed Projected Promised Promoted Prompted Promulgated Propagated Proposed |
Proved Provided Provisioned Publicized Punished Purchased Purged Pursued Pushed |
| Quarterbacked Quelled |
Queued Quickened |
Quieted | Quit |
| Railroaded Raised Ramrodded Ran Rated Rationalized Rationed Reached Realized Reaped Recognized |
Recommended Recorded Recounted Recovered Recruited Rectified Redeemed Reduced Re-enacted Reflected Reformed |
Regionalized Registered Regaled Regulated Reinforced Related Relayed Reported Represented Requisitioned Resolved |
Responded Restructured Retrained Retrenched Retrofitted Revamped Revised Righted |
| Safeguarded Salvaged Sanctified Sanctioned Sanitized Saved Scheduled Scratched Scrimmaged Sculpted Secured Seized Selected Sent Served |
Set Set Up Settled Shadowed Sharpened Shepherded Shouldered Simplified Situated Slamdunked Slammed Slashed Sold Solidified Solved |
Spawned Spearheaded Specified Spurred Staged Starred Stationed Steered Stimulated Stipulated Stirred Stored Stormed Strategized Streamlined |
Strengthened Stressed Struck Structured Summarized Supervised Supported Surfed Surpassed Surveyed Sustained Swayed Symbolized Synergized Synthesized |
| Tailed Tail-gunned Targeted |
Taxed Terminated Terra-formed |
Tracked Trailed Trained |
Transformed Translated Transported Troubleshoot |
| Underscored Unified Unilateralized |
Unlinked Unveiled Updated |
Upgraded Uplifted Uplinked |
Utilized |
| Validated Valued |
Vaulted Vented |
Verified Vetoed |
Visualized Voted |
| Warmed Warranted Whipped Wielded |
Won Worked Wounded Wrapped |
Wrestled Wronged Wrote Wrung |
Yielded Zeroed in on Zoomed in |
