Powerful action verbs - do you need a list? Here is a list of over 300 powerful action verbs, which are essential for your career documents.
Over 300 powerful action verbs – These accomplishment verbs are essential for your career documents and provide clarity and create impact.
You can start your bullet points under your positions with these powerful and unique verbs. These verbs will help catch your reader’s attention and note your accomplishments.
Ensure in your previous jobs you use verbs in the past tense. You may use verbs in the present tense for ongoing responsibilities and verbs in the past tense for projects that you have already accomplished in your current position.
Here is an alphabetical list of over 300 verbs that might help you with your resume and LinkedIn profile.
Accelerated
Achieved
Activated
Adapted
Administrated
Advanced
Aligned
Amplified
Analyzed
Applied
Approved
Arbitrated
Architected
Arranged
Assembled
Attained
Attracted
Audited
Augmented
Authored
Automated
Balanced
Boosted
Brainstormed
Briefed
Budgeted
Built
Calculated
Campaigned
Capitalized
Captured
Catapulted
Centralized
Chaired
Challenged
Championed
Charted
Clarified
Classified
Coached
Coded
Codeveloped
Cofounded
Collaborated
Collected
Communicated
Compared
Completed
Complied
Composed
Conceived
Conceptualized
Conducted
Configured
Conserved
Consolidated
Constructed
Controlled
Converged
Converted
Conveyed
Convinced
Cooperated
Coordinated
Corrected
Crafted
Created
Cultivated
Curated
Customized
Deciphered
Decreased
Defended
Defined
Delivered
Demonstrated
Deployed
Derived
Described
Designed
Detected
Developed
Devised
Diagnosed
Diagrammed
Differentiated
Directed
Discerned
Discovered
Dispensed
Distinguished
Distributed
Documented
Doubled
Drafted
Drew
Drove
Earned
Edited
Educated
Elevated
Eliminated
Empowered
Enabled
Enacted
Endeavored
Endorsed
Enforced
Engaged
Engineered
Enhanced
Enlivened
Ensured
Equalized
Escalated
Established
Evaluated
Examined
Exceeded
Excelled
Executed
Expanded
Expedited
Explained
Extracted
Facilitated
Finalized
Followed up
Forecasted
Forged
Formalized
Formed
Formulated
Fostered
Founded
Fueled
Fulfilled
Furthered
Gained
Generated
Governed
Guided
Halted
Handled
Headed
Helmed
Hired
Identified
Illustrated
Imagined
Implemented
Improved
Improvised
Incorporated
Increased
Influenced
Initiated
Innovated
Inspired
Installed
Instituted
Instructed
Integrated
Intensified
Interpreted
Introduced
Invented
Investigated
Invigorated
Landed
Launched
Led
Leveraged
Lowered
Maintained
Managed
Manufactured
Masterminded
Maximized
Mentored
Merged
Modeled
Modified
Monitored
Motivated
Multiplied
Narrowed
Navigated
Negotiated
Networked
Operated
Optimized
Orchestrated
Ordered
Organized
Originated
Outpaced
Outperformed
Outsourced
Overcame
Overhauled
Oversaw
Partnered
Paved
Performed
Piloted
Pinpointed
Pioneered
Planned
Positioned
Predicted
Prepared
Presented
Prevented
Prioritized
Processed
Procured
Produced
Programmed
Promoted
Proofread
Proposed
Provided
Published
Purchased
Qualified
Quantified
Raised
Rallied
Ran
Re-engineered
Reached
Rebuilt
Reclaimed
Recognized
Recommended
Reconciled
Recovered
Rectified
Redefined
Redesigned
Reduced
Refined
Reflected
Refocused
Refreshed
Regulated
Related
Remodeled
Renovated
Reorganized
Repaired
Replaced
Rescued
Research
Researched
Resolved
Restored
Restructured
Retained
Reversed
Revised
Revitalized
Rewrote
Salvaged
Satisfied
Saved
Scheduled
Secured
Selected
Served
Services
Set up
Shaped
Sharpened
Shattered
Simplified
Skyrocketed
Sold
Solved
Sparked
Spearheaded
Specialized
Spoke
Started
Steered
Stimulated
Storyboarded
Strategized
Streamlined
Strengthened
Stressed
Stretched
Structured
Succeeded
Superseded
Supervised
Supported
Surpassed
Sustained
Tailored
Teamed up
Terminated
Tested
Traced
Tracked
Traded
Trained
Transferred
Transformed
Translated
Translated
Trimmed
Tripled
Troubleshot
Turned around
Uncovered
Unified
Unraveled
Updated
Upgraded
Utilized
Vacated
Validated
Valuated
Verified
Visualized
Volunteered
Withdrew
Won
Worked
Wrote
Yielded
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