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Useful Phrases For Resumes

<span data-metadata=""><span data-buffer="">Make Your Resume Stand Out

Using relevant keywords and phrases on your resume, application or cover letter will help yours get noticed especially when companies use electronic screening systems to select interview candidates. Start by scanning a job listing for desired skills and key words. Highlight the key words and skills as you read. Then include phrases using the relevant skills and key words in your application and/or cover letter. You can also tailor your resume – especially your objective statement. The list of keyword phrases below is a great reference to get you started.

  • Recognize the importance of accuracy
  • Perform with a high degree of accuracy
  • Perform with consistent accuracy
  • Achieve results with accuracy and precision
  • Avoid mistakes and errors
  • Meet precise standards
  • Keep accurate records
  • Maintain accurate documentation
  • Meticulous with detail
  • Excel in detail checking
  • Make accurate predictions about future trends, directions and developments
  • Achieve optimal levels of personal performance and accomplishment
  • Provide strong evidence of specific accomplishments
  • Produce a tangible, positive impact
  • Achieve consistently high results
  • Excel in achieving outstanding project results
  • Achieve bottom-line results
  • Achieve lasting results
  • Exceed the norm
  • Accomplish more with fewer people
  • Demonstrate the ability to achieve desired results
  • Focus on results
  • Attain results through positive actions
  • Demonstrate a high level of administrative competence.
  • Constantly examine administrative effectiveness and seeks better procedures
  • Encourage administrative efficiency and effectiveness
  • Clearly establish administrative rules and regulations
  • Develop policies and procedures to improve department.
  • Improve administrative support systems
  • Develop successful administrative strategies
  • Excel in simplifying systems and reducing paperwork
  • Excel in eliminating unnecessary paperwork
  • Manage paperwork efficiently and effectively
  • Establish effective systems for record retention
  • Keep simple records with little duplication
  • Establish effective systems for information retrieval
  • Properly control the release of proprietary information
  • Respect confidential information
  • Utilize improved technology for administrative support
  • Demonstrate a strong power of analytical reasoning
  • Display strong analytical qualities
  • Demonstrate a strong ability to analyze problems
  • Utilize a variety of analytical techniques to solve problems
  • Excels in analyzing and adjusting work procedures for maximum efficiency
  • Thoroughly analyze conditions and reaches independent decisions
  • Effective in analyzing relevant information
  • Excel in analytical thinking
  • Recognize the importance of appearance
  • Present an attractive appearance
  • Take pride in personal appearance
  • Give proper attention to personal hygiene and dress
  • Dress consistent with organizational expectation
  • Wear appropriate clothing and accessories
  • Dress appropriately for the position
  • Display good posture
  • Projects poise and authority
  • Make positive first impression
  • Make excellent impression
  • Project a positive image
  • Communicate openly and effectively
  • Communicate clearly and concisely 
  • Communicate with credibility and confidence
  • Excel in communicating with individuals and small  groups
  • Effectively communicate with co-workers
  • Conduct meetings that achieve results 
  • Develops and maintains two-way communications
  • Communicate confidently with superiors, peers and  subordinates
  • Make appropriate use of formal vs. informal  communication
  • Demonstrate proper telephone techniques and  etiquette 
  • Respond quickly to all oral and written communications 
  • Demonstrate a high level of expertise 
  • Demonstrate strong interpersonal competence
  • Effectively capitalize on strength
  • Very confidant of abilities 
  • Uses abilities to the fullest  
  • Maximize personal strengths 
  • Accentuate strengths
  • Display a high level of technical competence
  • Highly skilled in all phases of job 
  • Excel in operational skills
  • Possess a strong knowledge of computer  fundamentals  
  • Keep abreast of new software applications
  • Understand computer applications 
  • Computer literate 
  • Incorporate the newest computer technologies
  • Make maximum use of allocated funds 
  • Make realistic budget projections 
  • Maintaining high quality 
  • Demonstrate sound cost effectiveness
  • Maintain effective cost control 
  • Develop strong cost control measures to ensure  desired results 
  • Demonstrate success in reducing costs while  maintaining high quality 
  • Exercise appropriate cost control 
  • Effectively identify areas needing cost reductions
  • Display sound judgement in managing and controlling  expenses 

 

  • Provide valuable insights 
  • Demonstrate creative strength 
  • Successfully develop creative strategies 
  • Tap the creative potential of a group
  • Seek creative alternatives 
  • Challenge conventional practices 
  • Explore new paths, procedures and approaches
  • Excels in creative thinking and problem solving
  • Discover new approaches 
  • Maintain a high level of curiosity 
  • Develop creative solutions to problems 
  • Demonstrate a high degree of originality and  creativity 
  • Seek new ideas and approaches 
  • Receptive to new ideas 
  • Generate fresh ideas 
  • Promote an environment conducive to creativity
  • Makes decisions with confidence 
  • Can be relied on to make sound decisions
  • Make inventive and resourceful decisions
  • Willing to make difficult and unpopular decisions
  • Seek staff input for decision making 
  • Make sound decisions under pressure 
  • Practice sound risk taking 
  • Willing to take calculated risks
  • Communicate decisions with confidence 
  • Can be relied upon to meet schedules and deadlines
  • Fully accepts all responsibilities and meets deadlines
  • Utilizes all available resources to achieve results
  • Is exceptionally reliable and trustworthy when given  an assignment 
  • Is always fully prepared 
  • Can be relied on to successfully complete all  assignments 
  • Fulfills all commitments 
  • Meets expectations 
  • Is very dependable and conscientious 
  • Regular in attendance 
  • Consistently punctual 
  • Delegate to improve organizational effectiveness
  • Effectively delegate responsibility 
  •  Know when and what to delegate
  • Give subordinates the authority needed to effectively  carry out delegated responsibilities  
  • Delegate to motivate 
  • Delegate to build subordinates
  • Identify staff development needs 
  • Recognize development levels and ability levels of  staff…and others 
  • Assist subordinates in applying new skills, techniques  and understandings 
  • Facilitates learning 
  • Develop creative potential 
  • Seek personal growth and development 
  • Understand personal strengths and weaknesses
  • Excel in tapping hidden talents
  • Build on strengths 
  • Reinforce positive behavior 
  • Inspire subordinates to achieve their fullest potential
  • Excel in developing mutual expectations 
  • Reinforce employee strengths
  • Establish clear and meaningful criteria or standards for effective performance 
  • Clearly establish performance objectives and  evaluation criteria 
  • Accurately monitor performance against objectives
  • Accurately evaluate employee effectiveness
  • Regularly assess growth 
  • Effectively track performance 
  • Accurately assess potential 
  • Effectively critique own work 
  • Benefit from constructive criticism 
  • Give recognition to deserving individuals
  • Recognize special talents and capabilities of  employees 
  • Understand accomplishments, strengths and  weakness of employees
  • Effectively develop individual departmental and  organizational goals to obtain objectives 
  • Effectually evaluates goals 
  • Formulate realistic objectives 
  • Establish specific objectives
  • Excel in prioritizing objectives  
  • Use goals to maintain momentum 
  • Set reachable targets 
  • Set realistic goals 
  • Set compelling personal goals 
  • Establish specific and measurable goals 
  • Set clear and measurable objectives
  • Consistently strive to improve performance
  • Use constructive criticism to improve performance
  • Often make valuable suggestions for improvement
  • Excel in developing improved techniques
  • Develop totally new strategies
  • Devises improved means of accomplishing results 
  • Clearly pinpoint area of needed improvements
  • Identify performance improvement problems
  • Monitor improvement progress
  • Demonstrate a high level of initiative
  • Self starter
  • Judicious in carrying out assignments without direction
  • Excel in self-directing and self-pacing
  • Effectively initiate solutions
  • Make practical suggestions
  • Take charge in the absence of detailed instructions
  • Require minimum supervision
  • Continuously find new and better ways of performing job
  • Extremely active and eager to try new approaches
  • Solution seeker
  • Display strong knowledge of responsibilities
  • Thoroughly understand all aspects of job
  • Understand needs and requirements of job
  • Can be entrusted to use good judgement
  • Excel in developing new perspectives
  • Possess practical hands-on experience
  • Effectively diagnose situations or conditions
  • Consider alternative courses of action
  • Displays excellent intuitive judgement
  • Demonstrate natural leadership ability
  • Excel in training, leading and motivating people
  • Demonstrate decisive leadership ability
  • Face problems with confidence and assurance
  • Inspire confidence and respect
  • Inspire the cooperation and confidence of others
  • Show eagerness and capacity to learn
  • Display an exceptional ability to learn new methods
  • Display an ability to learn rapidly and adapt quickly to changing situations
  • Respond quickly to new instructions, situations,methods and procedures
  • Quickly grasp new routines and explanations
  • Receptive to new ideas
  • Make effective use of hands-on learning
  • Benefit from all learning situations
  • Encourage a positive learning environment
  • Promote a learning climate
  • Displays sound ethics
  • Effectively manage change
  • Challenging and inspiring manager
  • Give clear direction
  • Provide subordinates with the resources needed to attain results
  • Hold subordinates accountable for results
  • Maintain high ethical standards
  • Grasp difficult concepts
  • Display a depth of understanding
  • Think before taking action
  • Alert, quick and responsive
  • Alert and broad-minded
  • Think strategically
  • Use common sense to reach workable conclusions
  • Strongly motivated to achieve optimal results
  • Strongly motivated to achieve higher expectations
  • Go beyond what is expected
  • Self-motivator
  • Results-oriented
  • Display a strong sense of purpose
  • Display a strong personal commitment
  • Display a spirit of determination
  • Display high energy and drive
  • Success-oriented
  • Capitalize on opportunities
  • Use positive reinforcements to motivate
  • Polished and confident speaker
  • Use understandable language that is relevant and meaningful
  • Highly articulate
  • Demonstrate excellent oral presentation skills
  • Continuously strive to improve presentation skills
  • Use visual aids effectively
  • Know how and when to say “no”
  • Use concise and clear language
  • Plan appropriate strategies to arrive at solutions
  • Excel in anticipating needs
  • Develop innovative plans and solutions
  • Excel in developing action plans
  • Develop sound action plans
  • Effectively put plans into action
  • Develop innovative strategies
  • Effectively plan to avoid future problems
  • Prevent problems from occurring
  • Excel in problem prevention
  • Develop sound contingency plans
  • Possess a strong capacity to make a greater contribution to the organization
  • Display strong potential for advancement
  • Eager to assume greater responsibility in the department or elsewhere
  • Demonstrate a strong ability to identify, analyze and solve problems
  • Excels in trouble shooting
  • Work well with others in solving problems
  • Turn problems into opportunities
  • Quality of work is consistently high
  • Achieve the highest standard of excellence
  • Committed to excellence
  • Achieve consistent effectiveness
  • Display pride in work
  • Recognize the needs of others
  • Get along well with others
  • Develop a strong working rapport with others
  • An excellent team worker
  • Develop mutual support
  • Build a close rapport
  • Build trust and rapport
  • Encourage organization-wide cooperation
  • Work effectively with others
  • Establish effective working relationships
  • Develop positive working relationship
  • Demonstrate self-reliance and resourcefulness
  • Extremely resourceful and enthusiastic
  • Effectively match goals to resources
  • Develop resourceful solutions
  • Optimize the use of all available resources
  • Make effective use of all organizational resources
  • Achieve success when confronted with limited resources
  • Effectively match resources with objectives
  • Accept responsibility for own decisions and those of subordinates
  • Delegate responsibility effectively
  • View new assignment as an opportunity for growth
  • Seize responsibility
  • Thrive on responsibility
  • Take positive action to meet growing responsibility
  • Especially effective in assigning responsibility
  • Build personal accountability
  • Display a willingness to face conflicts
  • Guide employees to proper resources whenever help is needed
  • Give clear instructions
  • Encourage constructive feedback
  • Strengthen morale
  • Promotes a high degree of morale
  • Gain employee confidence
  • Develop strong credibility with subordinates
  • Understand different personalities and traits
  • Show empathy
  • Show genuine respect
  • Distinguish between low and high priority activities
  • Use time productively
  • Uses time wisely
  • Delegate for maximum time effectiveness
  • Demonstrate strong editing skills
  • Demonstrate creative writing ability
  • Write with persuasion
  • Write proposals that win approval
  • Write to convey a positive impression
  • Write in a positive tone
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