In the beginning was the Word.
Have you ever wondered why some writers can’t hook us while others simply toy with your emotions? Why do we listen to some speakers carefully while others make us nothing but fall asleep?
Words.
They use different words to influence readers and listeners.
When written in resumes or said during job interviews, words become your powerful weapon. The better you use them, the bigger your chances to influence recruiters are.
So, how to do that?
Next time you write a resume, make sure you use strong and powerful words, as they increase your chances of getting hired by 80%! It’s high time to forget about clichés: professional recruiters read hundreds of resumes daily, so they are sick and tired of all those “great team player” or “responsible and dedicated individual” every second candidate writes in resumes and says at job interviews.
Powerful words in your resume will help you avoid apocalypse and motivate recruiters, especially when you search for your first job after graduation.
Said during an interview, they can do wonders.
Carefully-chosen, such words draw interviewers from one emotion to another, making them sympathize you and see you an ideal candidate as compared with others.
What are these powerful words, after all?
Broken down alphabetically, they are easier to find and remember.
A-Words
| Able
Absorb
Accelerate
Accomplish
Achieve |
Acquire
Administrate
Advanced
Advise
Advocate |
Align
Amplify
Analyse
Announce
Appraise |
Arbitrate
Assemble
Assess
Assign
Assist |
Attain
Attract
Audit
Authorize
Award |
B-Words
| Balance
Bargain
Benefit |
Block
Bolster
Boost |
Brief
Budget
Build |
C-Words
| Calculate
Campaign
Capitalize
Centralize
Chart
Clarify
Coach |
Co-author
Collaborate
Commit
Complete
Comply
Compose
Conduct |
Conserve
Consolidate
Consult
Convert
Convey
Convince
Contribute |
Coordinate
Correspond
Counsel
Create
Critique
Customize
Cultivate |
D-Words
| Decrease
Deduct
Define
Delegate
Deliver
Demonstrate |
Design
Detect
Develop
Devise
Devote
Design |
Dispatch
Diagnose
Discover
Distinguish
Diversify
Document |
E-Words
| Earn
Educate
Enable
Encourage |
Enforce
Engineer
Enhance
Enrich |
Ensure
Establish
Evaluate
Examine |
Exceed
Excell
Expand
Explore |
F-Words
| Facilitate
Field
Finance
Forecast |
Forge
Formalize
Formulate |
Foster
Found
Fulfill
Further |
G-H-Words
| Gain
Gather
Generate |
Head
Help
Hire
Host |
Give
Grant
Guide |
I-Words
| Identify
Illustrate
Implement
Improve
Improvise
Incorporate |
Increase
Influence
Inform
Initiate
Innovate
Inspect |
Inspire
Integrate
Interpret
Introduce
Investigate
Itemize |
L-M-Words
| Launch
Lessen
Lift
Lobby |
Maintain
Manage
Map
Market |
Monitor
Motivate
Multiply |
Maximize
Measure
Mediate
Mentor |
Merge
Mobilize
Modernize
Modify |
N-O-Words
| Navigate
Negotiate |
Observe
Obtain |
Oversee
Outpace
Outperform |
Operate
Organize |
Originate
Overhaul |
P-Words
| Participate
Partner
Perform |
Persuade
Pioneer
Plan |
Prepare
Present
Project |
Promote
Provide
Publish |
Q-R-Words
| Qualify
Rank
Reach
React
Receive
Recommend
Reconcile
Recover
Recruit
Redesign |
Quantify
Reduce
Reengineer
Refine
Refocus
Regulate
Rehabilitate
Reinstate
Remodel
Reorganize |
Quote
Replace
Represent
Restructure
Resolve
Retain
Revamp
Review
Revise
Revitalize |
S-Words
| Safeguard
Save
Scrutinize
Secure |
Segment
Select
Shape
Showcase |
Simplify
Skill
Spearhead
Specify |
Standardize
Stimulate
Streamline
Strengthen |
Structure
Succeed
Suggest
Supervise |
Support
Surpass
Survey
Sustain |
T-U-V-Words
| Target
Teach
Test
Track
Train |
Transcend
Transform
Translate
Triumph
Tutor |
Uncover
Unify
Unite
Update
Upgrade |
Utilize
Validate
Value
View
Verify |
As far as you see, all power words are verbs of action. When you use them in resumes and interviews, you tell a recruiter that you are a doer, a man of action who is ready to work and do his best.
It’s clear you shouldn’t use all 250+ words at once or learn them ALL to blow HRs out of the water:
- Check them carefully;
- Choose those corresponding to your skills and describing you as a leader and responsible individual ready for self-development, learning, and working the best you can;
- Make sure they sound during your answers to a recruiter’s question.
A word is a powerful weapon that can help you win as well as fail. So, use this weapon for your sake.
Have you ever thought of words as a method to influence interviewers? Do you consider it a good technique to improve your resume and help you get a dream job?
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