Strong Action Verbs
Strong Action Verbs
Click/tap/select the categories below to view skills and qualities employers and graduate schools often say they want candidates to demonstrate on a resume. Use these action verbs to describe your experiences. Remember to add in numbers, dollars, and percentages when possible.
- Approve
- Arrange
- Categorize
- Classify
- Code
- Collaborate
- Collect
- Compile
- Conserve
- Consolidate
- Correct
- Diagram
- Distribute
- Enlist
- Execute
- Expedite
- Extract
- Generate
- Identify
- Implement
- Incorporate
- Inspect
- Integrate
- Join
- Log
- Maintain
- Monitor
- Obtain
- Operate
- Organize
- Prepare
- Prioritize
- Process
- Purchase
- Record
- Reorganize
- Reshape
- Respond
- Retrieve
- Revamp
- Review
- Revise
- Schedule
- Screen
- Set up
- Shape
- Specialize
- Specify
- Standardize
- Streamline
- Substitute
- Systematize
- Tabulate
- Target
- Update
- Validate
- Act
- Adapt
- Advertise
- Begin
- Broaden
- Combine
- Compose
- Conceive
- Condense
- Conceptualize
- Conduct
- Create
- Customize
- Demonstrate
- Design
- Develop
- Direct
- Discover
- Display
- Draft
- Dramatize
- Draw
- Entertain
- Establish
- Execute
- Exhibit
- Explore
- Fashion
- Forge
- Formulate
- Found
- Illustrate
- Imagine
- Improvise
- Initiate
- Institute
- Integrate
- Introduce
- Invent
- Market
- Model
- Modernize
- Modify
- Originate
- Perform
- Photograph
- Pilot
- Pioneer
- Plan
- Present
- Produce
- Recommend
- Redesign
- Rehearse
- Remodel
- Renovate
- Replace
- Revise
- Revitalize
- Shape
- Sketch
- Spearhead
- Transform
- Account for
- Adjust
- Administer
- Allocate
- Analyze
- Appraise
- Audit
- Balance
- Budget
- Calculate
- Compute
- Conserve
- Control
- Correct
- Determine
- Develop
- Estimate
- Finance
- Forecast
- Manage
- Market
- Measure
- Monitor
- Net
- Plan
- Prepare
- Procure
- Project
- Purchase
- Qualify
- Reconcile
- Reduce
- Research
- Retrieve
- Transfer
- Adapt
- Advise
- Advocate
- Aid
- Answer
- Anticipate
- Arrange
- Assess
- Clarify
- Coach
- Collaborate
- Contribute
- Cooperate
- Counsel
- Deliver
- Demonstrate
- Diagnose
- Educate
- Enable
- Encourage
- Enlist
- Ensure
- Evaluate
- Expedite
- Facilitate
- Familiarize
- Foster
- Guide
- Handle
- Help
- Moderate
- Observe
- Orient
- Predict
- Prescribe
- Protect
- Prevent
- Provide
- Reconcile
- Rectify
- Refer
- Rehabilitate
- Represent
- Resolve
- Serve
- Simplify
- Supply
- Support
- Volunteer
- Accomplish
- Account for
- Adjust
- Administer
- Analyze
- Appoint
- Approve
- Assign
- Assume
- Attain
- Chair
- Choose
- Conceptualize
- Conduct
- Consolidate
- Consult
- Contact
- Contract
- Coordinate
- Decide
- Decrease
- Delegate
- Design
- Determine
- Develop
- Devote
- Direct
- Dispatch
- Dispense
- Eliminate
- Emphasize
- Employ
- Enforce
- Enhance
- Establish
- Evaluate
- Execute
- Formulate
- Generate
- Handle
- Head
- Hire
- Implement
- Improve
- Incorporate
- Increase
- Initiate
- Institute
- Lead
- Leverage
- Maintain
- Manage
- Merge
- Motivate
- Orchestrate
- Order
- Organize
- Overhaul
- Oversee
- Perfect
- Plan
- Preserve
- Preside
- Prioritize
- Produce
- Propose
- Protect
- Realize
- Recommend
- Recruit
- Regulate
- Reorganize
- Replace
- Review
- Revitalize
- Reward
- Save
- Schedule
- Set goals
- Streamline
- Strengthen
- Supervise
- Terminate
- Unify
- Address
- Advertise
- Arbitrate
- Arrange
- Ascertain
- Author
- Brief
- Collaborate
- Communicate
- Compose
- Confront
- Consult
- Contact
- Convey
- Convince
- Correspond
- Define
- Describe
- Develop
- Direct
- Document
- Draft
- Edit
- Educate
- Elicit
- Enlist
- Explain
- Express
- Follow-up
- Formulate
- Incorporate
- Influence
- Inform
- Interact
- Interpret
- Interview
- Involve
- Lecture
- Market
- Mediate
- Meet
- Moderate
- Motivate
- Negotiate
- Network
- Observe
- Outline
- Participate
- Persuade
- Present
- Promote
- Publicize
- Publish
- Question
- Reconcile
- Recruit
- Refer
- Reinforce
- Report
- Resolve
- Respond
- Solicit
- Specify
- Speak
- Stipulate
- Suggest
- Summarize
- Synthesize
- Translate
- Write
- Accumulate
- Acquire
- Address
- Analyze
- Brainstorm
- Calculate
- Chart
- Clarify
- Collaborate
- Collect
- Compare
- Conduct
- Design
- Detect
- Determine
- Diagnose
- Discover
- Disprove
- Evaluate
- Examine
- Extract
- Formulate
- Gather
- Hypothesize
- Identify
- Interpret
- Interview
- Investigate
- Modify
- Organize
- Reduce
- Remedy
- Research
- Revamp
- Review
- Revitalize
- Revive
- Solve
- Study
- Summarize
- Survey
- Troubleshoot
- Accelerate
- Accomplish
- Achieve
- Add
- Advance
- Attain
- Augment
- Award
- Complete
- Compound
- Contribute
- Decrease
- Demonstrate
- Double
- Eliminate
- Enlarge
- Establish
- Exceed
- Excel
- Expand
- Extend
- Fortify
- Improve
- Increase
- Initiate
- Introduce
- Launch
- Lower costs
- Map
- Maximize
- Measure
- Minimize
- Obtain
- Pioneer
- Prove
- Reduce
- Reinstate
- Resolve
- Secure
- Solicit
- Stabilize
- Standardize
- Succeed
- Transform
- Trim
- Triple
- Validate
- Widen
- Win
- Accept
- Adapt
- Advise
- Analyze
- Apply
- Appraise
- Appreciate
- Assess
- Assign
- Attend
- Categorize
- Challenge
- Choose
- Clarify
- Coach
- Command
- Communicate
- Complement
- Conduct
- Consider
- Cooperate
- Coordinate
- Correct
- Critique
- Define
- Demonstrate
- Designate
- Develop
- Direct
- Discipline
- Educate
- Elaborate
- Elicit
- Emphasize
- Enable
- Encourage
- Evaluate
- Excite
- Explain
- Explore
- Facilitate
- Focus
- Generate
- Guide
- Head
- Hypothesize
- Identify
- Implement
- Incorporate
- Indicate
- Individualize
- Infer
- Inform
- Initiate
- Inquire
- Instill
- Instruct
- Integrate
- Interact
- Investigate
- Listen
- Model
- Modify
- Motivate
- Observe
- Organize
- Persuade
- Ponder
- Postulate
- Praise
- Provoke
- Question
- Reinforce
- Rephrase
- Research
- Reward
- Set goals
- Set standards
- Simplify
- Solicit
- Speculate
- State
- Stimulate
- Structure
- Synthesize
- Systematize
- Teach
- Thank
- Theorize
- Train
- Tutor
- Activate
- Adapt
- Apply
- Appraise
- Assemble
- Begin
- Build
- Calculate
- Compute
- Configure
- Conserve
- Consolidate
- Construct
- Contrive
- Convert
- Coordinate
- Create
- Define
- Deliver
- Design
- Detect
- Determine
- Develop
- Devise
- Display
- Exhibit
- Experiment
- Fabricate
- Formulate
- Fortify
- Implement
- Install
- Integrate
- Investigate
- Maintain
- Navigate
- Operate
- Overhaul
- Participate
- Program
- Reconfigure
- Rectify
- Regulate
- Rehabilitate
- Remodel
- Repair
- Resolve
- Screen
- Service
- Solve
- Streamline
- Supply
- Survey
- Train
- Troubleshoot
- Upgrade