Actionable Verbs To Create a Successful Resume 

To showcase your skills, you need verbs that convey actions to help you describe your expertise to potential employers. No matter what your job duties were at your previous position when writing a resume, you are trying to stand out and showcase your skills. 

1. Verbs that don’t convey a specific action, such as worked, assisted, or encouraged have no place in your resume. For example, “Worked on the weekly schedule,” does not state what exactly you did with the weekly schedules. Instead, “Developed the weekly schedule and accommodated any last-minute changes without impacting the mission.” specifies how you put the schedule together and made room for last-minute changes.
2. Verbs that reflect a passive action including oversaw, utilized, or held. These verbs are vague in terms of reflecting the impact of the action on a company's productivity.  Below is a comparison.

Wrong Verb Choice 

“Held staff meetings weekly to share the latest updates.” The verb held does not reflect the steps taken to make the meeting happen.

Successful Verb Utilization

“ Executed weekly status meetings to communicate the client's needs.”  The verb executed demonstrates carrying out planned steps to make the meeting take place.

To Showcase Strong Work Ethics

Use verbs like, achieved, drove, established, and enacted to demonstrate your hard work and diligence. For example, “ achieved the set weekly goal of generating 50 sales.”

To Demonstrate Completing Core Duties

Verbs such as, accomplished, analyzed, implemented, and created, can help you present your responsibilities and reflect your main duties. Here is a sample, “ developed an informative and effective reporting system to analyze the gaps in sales and shared it with all departments,”

Combine action verbs with quantifiable data to make a long-lasting impact. For example, “Executed weekly status meetings to communicate revenue growth which boosted sales by %30.” Make sure you have the data to back it up.