It's worth looking at your resume carefully if you are in the job search (or might soon be). While humility can be a valuable soft skill and conveys emotional intelligence at work, it is not appropriate for a document that highlights your career achievements. Your resume is your best chance to stand out from hundreds of other applicants. It should contain powerful action verbs that communicate agency and impact, not those that place you in a "helping” position.
Many applicants may be submitted to the same job. Ladders, Inc. conducted an eye tracking study in 2018 and found that the average time it takes to screen a resume for hire is 7.4 seconds. With so little time, it's important to highlight your accomplishments. Passive or weak verbs (think: utilized, contributed and held) can "undermine your resume's strength and effectiveness" and prompt an HR manager to discard your resume faster than you can say that you "participated at best-of-breed initiative."
In an Instagram post, Alicia Whitney, a Brooklyn-based tech recruiter, asked job seekers to "stop downplaying the important things in their careers" and provided examples of "verbs you should use on your resume rather than 'helped or 'assisted'. We often naturally undercut ourselves, downplay our accomplishments, and your resume is the place to brag.
Her top picks included: Identified, improved, produced, instituted and delivered, partnered with, spearheaded, analyzed. incorporated. completed. advocated. and resolved. Although this is a very short list, a Google search for "verbs to resume" will yield thousands of results. It did. Our favorites included: Developed and launched, boosted and leveraged, chaired and established, outperformed and supervised--among many others.
Indeed, he agreed with the sentiment and stated that action verbs not only help shine an application, but also "they can help job candidates get past software scanners which filter for the best candidates."
You can make your contribution stronger and more impactful by switching to a power verb. Why say you "managed daily activities and long-term project" when you can say you "leveraged key information points to increase monthly sales by $10,000".
Note on the verb tense
You should also use the same verb tense throughout. While past tense can be used for all verbs it is okay to use present tense to describe your current job. You should not mix and match verbs within the same bullet point. All verb tenses should agree for any role.
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