Key Words to Include in your Resume

The words you choose to include in your resume can be of great assistance helping you catch the attention of a potential employer. It is important to use action words and to write in an "active voice". Below are some helpful words to use when marketing yourself on your resume!

Accomplishments
Accomplished
Action
Active
Accurate
Achievement Oriented
Acquainted
Adaptable
Adjusted
Adhered
Administered
Advanced
Allocated
Analyzed
Applied
Appraised
Arranged
Assertive
Assessed
Assist
Attentive to Detail
Awarded

Bilingual
Benefits
Benchmarked
Brainstorming
Business Etiquette
Built

Career Advancement
Career Advice
Career Change
Career Fairs
Career Objective
Career Planning
Career Training
Challenge Seeking
College
Communication Skills
Conducted
Confident
Contacts
Contributed
Coordinated
Co-op Programs
Counseled
Cover Letter
Customer Oriented

Decisive
Decreased
Dedicated
Demonstrated
Dependable
Detected
Determined
Diploma
Distributed
Documented

Edited
Education
Effective Problem Solving Skills
Elected
Employability Skills
Employment
Encouraging Others
Enlisted
Enterprising
Enthusiastic
Entry Level Jobs
Executed

Financed
Flexible
Flextime
Focused
Forecasted
Formulate

GTA Jobs
Gained
Gathered
Generated
Goals
Goal Oriented
Good follow through
Good listener

Hard Working
Headed
Head Hunter
Honest
Hosted
Human Relations

Implemented
Improved
Improvised
Increased
Independent
Industrious
Influenced
Informational Interview
Initiated
Innovative
Instilled
Instituted
Internship
Interviews
Introduced

Job Bank
Job Fairs
Job Finding
Job Forecast
Job Hunting
Job Objective
Job Ready
Job Search
Job Shadowing
Justified

Leadership Qualities
Loyal

Maintained
Managed
Marketed
Mastered
Mature
Mentored
Monitor and Regulate work flow
Motivated

Negotiated
Network
Networking
Objectives
Observant
Open Minded
Operated
Optimistic
Organized
Organized Projects
Outgoing

Patented
Patient
People Oriented
Persistent
Plan Strategically
Planned
Positive
Practical
Prepared
Processed
Productive
Professional
Progressive
Project Oriented
Punctual

Qualifications
Quick to take initiatives

Recommended
Recruiter
Recruiting Agencies
Redesigned
Reeducated
Reengineered
Reference
Reorganized
Reliable
Researched
Responded
Represented
Restructured

Secured
Selected
Seminars
Set Goals
Skills
Skill Set
Soft Skills
Specified
Staffing Agencies
Standardized
Strengthened
Student Jobs
Summer Jobs
Supported

Targeted Resume
Toronto Jobs
Trained
Transferable Skills

Unified
University

Willing to learn
Work well with others
Work effectively as part of a team

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