Your résumé is the part of your job search that you have the most control over.
The way to take control is to ensure that your résumé not only shows that you can do the job, but also demonstrates that you will make a quick, substantial, and positive impact on the organization to which you are applying. Essentially, your résumé becomes a personal brochure that promotes you.
Do you want to be like everyone else, and have all of your bullet points start with words like reduced, improved, and managed or do you want to be the applicant who slashed costs, transformed employee morale, and championed a new initiative? Any recruiter or hiring manager will have an easier time envisioning the second applicant performing those actions at their company.
Use this guide to choose action verbs that will make you stand out against the competition.
