Using Power Words or Keywords in Resume

Using Power Words or Keyword is essential for your resume. It is not only useful to pass through digital and electronic filters but even manual scanning. The 30 seconds that every resume gets to make a impact are very crucial to it and in such scanning even the employer voluntarily or involuntarily looks only for the Keywords.
There are no prescribed lists of universal power words; they usually vary from job to job.
Let’s get down to the electronic keyword search filters. A keyword search software searches for around 60 keywords per document. The document that has the maximum number of keywords is ranked first in the results. Some employers may even use software with synonym search capability. Such software looks for the keywords as well as their synonyms in the documents. A third type of keyword search software can perform custom searches giving specific words higher preference than others.
If the employer uses keyword search software however interesting your resume might be it would fail to pass if there is a lack of keywords. As Keywords are so important to your Resume you must pay attention to the Keywords you are using.
Here is a list of the most convincing keywords for your resume. Choose the most appropriate keywords for your job and use them skilfully and tactically in your resume.
A
Absorb
Accelerate
Access
Accomplish
Accrue
Acquire
Achieve
Act
Activate
Adapt
Address
Adjust
Administer
Advertise
Advise
Advocate
Affirm
Aid
Alert
Align
Allocate
Analyze
Apply
Appraise
Approve
Arbitrate
Arranged
Assemble
Assess
Assign
Assist
Attain
Authorize
Award

B

Begin
Brief
Bring
Broadcast
Budget
Build

C

Calculate
Campaign
Certify
Chaired
Change
Chart
Check
Choose
Clarify
Classify
Coach
Collaborate
Collate
Collect
Combine
Communicate
Compare
Compile
Complete
Comply
Compose
Compute
Conceptualize
Conclude
Condense
Conduct
Confer
Configure
Connect
Conserve
Consolidate
Construct
Consult
Contact
Continue
Contribute
Control
Convert
Convey
Convince
Coordinate
Correspond
Counsel
Critique
Cultivate
Customize

D

Decide
Declare
Decline
Decorate
Dedicate
Define
Delegate
Deliver
Demonstrate
Depreciate
Describe
Design
Determine
Develop
Devise
Diagnose
Direct
Dispatch
Dispense
Distribute
Document
Draft

E

Edit
Educate
Emphasize
Encourage
Enforce
Engineer
Enhance
Ensure
Establish
Estimate
Evaluate
Examine
Execute
Expand
Expedite
Explain

F

Fabricate
Facilitate
Finance
Focus
Forecast
Formulate
Foster
Fund
Furnish

G

Gain
Generate
Graduate
Greet
Guide

H

Handle
Help
Hire
Host

I

Identify
Illustrate
Implement
Improve
Improvise
Increase
Index
Influence
Inform
Initiate
Innovate
Inspire
Install
Institute
Integrate
Interact
Interview
Introduce
Investigate
Itemize

J

Join
Justify

L

Launch
Learn
Lecture
Led
Lessen
Lift
Link
Listen

M

Maintain
Manage
Manipulate
Map
Market
Measure
Mediate
Merge
Mobilize
Modify
Monitor
Motivate

N

Negotiate

O

Observe
Obtain
Open
Operate
Order
Organize
Originate
Outpace
Outperform

P

Participate
Perform
Persuade
Plan
Prepare
Present
Prevent
Printed
Prioritize
Process
Produce
Program
Promote
Propose
Prospect
Prove
Provide
Publicize
Purchase
Pursue

Q

Qualify

R

Run
Rate
Reach
Receive
Recommend
Reconcile
Record
Recruit
Reduce
Refer
Refocus
Regulate
Reorganize
Repair
Replace
Report
Represent
Research
Reserve
Resolve
Respond
Restore
Restructure
Retrieve
Review
Revise
Revitalize

S

Schedule
Screen
Search
Secure
Select
Send
Serve
Share
Seize
Showcase
Simplify
Solve
Sort
Specialize
Specify
Sponsor
Staff
Standardize
Start
Succeed
Suggest
Summarize
Supervise
Supply
Support
Surpass
Survey
Sustain

T

Target
Teach
Test
Track
Trade
Train
Transact
Transcribe
Transform
Translate
Transmit
Transport
Tutor

U

Unite
Update
Upgrade
Use
Utilize

V

Validate
Value
Verify
View
Volunteer

W

Watch
Weigh
Witness
Write

Y

Yield