Action Words for Resumes

Action Words for Powerful Resumes

Action Words

When employers read resumes they look for words that precisely describe the writers' accomplishments, because accomplishments predict potential. Avoid generalizations or overview statements. For example, "Assisted faculty with a wide variety of duties" is vague. "Researched labor law reports; graded papers for 50 junior level finance students; developed Visual Basic Software programs for classr...

Action Words

When employers read resumes they look for words that precisely describe the writers' accomplishments, because accomplishments predict potential. Avoid generalizations or overview statements. For example, "Assisted faculty with a wide variety of duties" is vague. "Researched labor law reports; graded papers for 50 junior level finance students; developed Visual Basic Software programs for classr...

Developing a Semantic Similarity Judgment Test for Persian Action Verbs and Non-action Nouns in Patients With Brain Injury and Determining its Content Validity

Objective: Brain trauma evidences suggest that the two grammatical categories of noun and verb are processed in different regions of the brain due to differences in the complexity of grammatical and semantic information processing. Studies have shown that the verbs belonging to different semantic categories lead to neural activity in different areas of the brain, and action verb processing is r...

An Approach to Extract Special Skills to Improve the Performance of Resume Selection

In the Internet era, the enterprises and companies receive thousands of resumes from the job seekers. Currently available filtering techniques and search services help the recruiters to filter thousands of resumes to few hundred potential ones. Since these filtered resumes are similar to each other, it is difficult to identify the potential resumes by examining each resume. We are investigating...