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ACTION WORDS FOR THE TECHNICAL PROFESSIONAL

Use action words to describe your experience and accomplishments. Here are some actions words to use:

A accomplished, accounted, accumulated, achieved, acquired, activated, adapted, adhered, administered, advertised, advised, allocated, analyzed, applied, appraised, approved, arranged, assembled, assigned, assisted, assumed, assured, audited, augmented, authorized, automated

B balanced, brought, budgeted, built

C catalogued, changed, coded, collected, communicated, compared, compiled, completed, composed, computed, conceived, concentrated, conducted, configured, considered, consolidated, constructed, consulted, continued, contracted, controlled, converted, cooperated, coordinated, corrected, correlated, created, credited, customized

D debugged, decreased, defined, delegated, deleted, delivered, demonstrated, designed, determined, developed, diagnosed, directed, dispersed, displayed, distributed, documented, drafted

E edited, educated, eliminated, emphasized, employed, engaged, engineered, enhanced, enlarged, ensured, established, estimated, evaluated, examined, executed, exercised, expanded, expedited, extended, evaluated

F fabricated, facilitated, fixed, forecasted, formulated, functioned as, furnished

G generated, granted, graphed, guaranteed

H headed, helped, hired

I identified, implemented, improved, included, informed, initiated, issued, inspected, installed, instituted, instructed, integrated, interfaced, interpreted, interviewed, introduced, invented, investigated, involved

J joined, justified

L leased, led, lessened, loaded

M maintained, managed, marketed, mastered, measured, mediated, mentored, met, modified, monitored, motivated

N negotiated, neutralized, normalized, notified

O observed, overhauled, opened, operated, orchestrated, organized, ordered

P participated, performed, persuaded, planned, posted, prepared, presented, presided,
processed, procured, produced, programmed, projected, promoted, proposed, protected,
provided, publicized, purchased

Q qualified, quantified

R raised, reclaimed, recommended, reconstructed, recruited, rectified, reduced, released, reorganized, repaired, replaced, reported, represented, requested, required, requisitioned, researched, resolved, restored, retained, retrained, retrieved, revamped, reviewed, revised

S saved, scheduled, screened, searched, secured, selected, served, set objectives, set up, sold solicited, solved, sorted, specified, staffed, standardized, stimulated, streamlined, strengthened, structured, subcontracted, submitted, succeeded, summarized, supervised, supplied, supported, surpassed, synthesized, systematized

T taught, terminated, tested, traced, tracked, trained, transferred, translated, traveled

U updated, upgraded, underscored, utilized

V validated, verified, visualized

W won, wrote