eResumes: Electronic Resumes, Key Words or Action Words Resources

# Accelerate
# Accomplish
# Acquire
# Achieve
# Activate
# Adapt
# Administer
# Advise
# Align
# Allocate
# Analyze
# Apply
# Appraise
# Approve
# Arrange
# Assemble
# Assess
# Assign
# Assist
# Attain
# Authorize
# Award
# Budget
# Build
# Calculate
# Change
# Chart
# Clarify
# Classify
# Coach
# Collaborate
# Collect
# Combine
# Communicate
# Compare
# Compile
# Complete
# Compose
# Compute
# Conclude
# Conduct
# Configure
# Connect
# Conserve
# Consolidate
# Construct
# Consult
# Contact
# Contribute
# Control
# Convert
# Convey
# Convince
# Coordinate
# Counsel
# Critique
# Cultivate
# Customize
# Decide
# Declare
# Decline
# Dedicate
# Define
# Delegate
# Deliver
# Demonstrate
# Depreciate
# Describe
# Design
# Determine
# Develop
# Devise
# Diagnose
# Direct
# Dispatch
# Dispense
# Distribute
# Document
# Draft
# Edit
# Emphasize
# Encourage
# Enforce
# Engineer
# Enhance
# Ensure
# Establish
# Estimate
# Evaluate
# Examine
# Execute
# Expand
# Expedite
# Explain
# Facilitate
# Finance
# Focus
# Forecast
# Formulate
# Foster
# Fund
# Furnish
# Gain
# Generate
# Guide
# Hire
# Host
# Identify
# Illustrate
# Implement
# Improve
# Improvise
# Increase
# Index
# Influence
# Inform
# Initiate
# Innovate
# Inspire
# Install
# Institute
# Integrate
# Interact
# Interview
# Introduce
# Investigate
# Itemize
# Join
# Justify
# Launch
# Learn
# Lecture
# Led
# Link
# Maintain
# Manage
# Map
# Market
# Measure
# Mediate
# Merge
# Mobilize
# Modify
# Monitor
# Motivate
# Negotiate
# Observe
# Obtain
# Operate
# Order
# Organize
# Originate
# Outpace
# Outperform
# Participate
# Perform
# Persuade
# Plan
# Prepare
# Present
# Prevent
# Prioritize
# Produce
# Program
# Promote
# Propose
# Prospect
# Prove
# Provide
# Publicize
# Purchase
# Pursue
# Qualify
# Rate
# Recommend
# Reconcile
# Record
# Recruit
# Reduce
# Refer
# Refocus
# Regulate
# Reorganize
# Repair
# Replace
# Report
# Represent
# Research
# Restore
# Restructure
# Retrieve
# Review
# Revise
# Revitalize
# Schedule
# Secure
# Select
# Serve
# Share
# Showcase
# Simplify
# Solve
# Sponsor
# Staff
# Standardize
# Suggest
# Summarize
# Supervise
# Supply
# Support
# Surpass
# Survey
# Target
# Teach
# Test
# Track
# Train
# Transform
# Translate
# Transport
# Unite
# Update
# Upgrade
# Validate
# Verify
# Volunteer
# Yield

Chapter 4 Reading Notes: Resume Preparation Recommendation

Chapter 4 Reading Notes:

Resume Preparation Recommendation:

Now that you know that your resume is your marketing piece or an advertisement for yourself, you want to make sure it shows your most important skills which will impress your employer. After all, the purpose of a resume is to impress a potential employer and get you an interview. The cover letter will help you get your feet in the door.

A by-product of your resume preparation is that it can raise your confidence. As far as resume requirements, there are some absolutes you must incorporate into your resume.

Avoid "I" and complete sentences. Use telegraphic phrases with specific action words. Be specific about what you did. Avoid abbreviations such as B.A. Instead use Bachelor of Arts, Master of Sciences etc. If your resume will be scanned, include key words and acronyms such as RN along with "registered nurse."

Here is a list of Action words found in the textbook:

Achieved, acquired, acted as, serviced, addressed, administered, advanced, advised, analyzed, answered, arbitrated, assigned, assisted, balanced, budgeted, built, communicated, composed, computed, constructed, consulted, coordinated, created, delegated, designed, developed, devised, diagnosed, directed, edited, employed, engineered, estimated, evaluated, filed, formulated, gathered, generated, hired, identified, increased, informed, inspected, installed, interacted, invented, maintained, managed, marketed, mediated, monitored, negotiated, operated, ordered, organized, recorded, redesigned, reorganized, reported, researched, reviewed, revised, saved, scheduled, selected, sold, solved, sorted, studied, summarized, supervised, taught, tested, trained, updated, utilized, wrote.

Review Guide for Chapter 4

Resume, reasons for resumes, requirements, resume typs, traditional or formatted, plain text, scannable, key words, electronic or eResume, web resume and web portfolio, resume formats, chronological, functional, combination, targeted, considerations and recommendations regarding: heading, objectives, categories and how to determine the order of these: wording, telegraphic phrases or key words, inclusion of references, personal data, information to avoid giving, appearance, copying and number of copies, online posting, cover letter, reasons for importance, guidelines for writing, sections and contents, mailings, follow-up letter, after-rejection letter, job application, guidelines, illegal questions and ways to respond.

Use this review to get ready for chapter 4