252 Powerful Words to Avoid Apocalypse at Job Interview
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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