Kansas Next Step - Resume Skills & Power Words

Transferable Skills Checklist

Key Transferable Skills

  • Meet deadlines
  • Plan
  • Speak in public
  • Control budgets
  • Supervise others
  • Increase sales or efficiency
  • Accept responsibility
  • Instruct others
  • Solve problems
  • Manage money or budgets
  • Manage people
  • Meet the public
  • Negotiate
  • Organize/manage projects
  • Written communications

 

Other Transferable Skills

Dealing with Things

 

  • Use my hands
  • Assemble or make things
  • Build, observe, inspect things
  • Construct or repair buildings
  • Operate tools and machinery
  • Drive or operate vehicles
  • Repair things
  • Good with my hands
  • Use complex equipment

Dealing with Data

 

  • Analyze data or facts
  • Investigate
  • Audit records
  • Keep Financial records
  • Budget
  • Locate answers or information
  • Calculate, compute
  • Manage money
  • Classify data
  • Negotiate
  • Compare, inspect, or record facts
  • Count, observe, compile
  • Research
  • Detail-oriented
  • Synthesize
  • Evaluate
  • Take inventory

Working with People

 

  • Administer
  • Patient
  • Care for
  • Persuade
  • Confront others
  • Pleasant
  • Counsel people
  • Sensitive
  • Demonstrate
  • Sociable
  • Diplomatic
  • Supervise
  • Help others
  • Tactful
  • Insightful
  • Teach
  • Interview others
  • Tolerant
  • Kind
  • Tough
  • Listen
  • Trust
  • Negotiate
  • Understand
  • Outgoing

Using Words, Ideas

 

  • Articulate
  • Inventive
  • Communicate verbally
  • Logical
  • Correspond with others
  • Remember information
  • Research
  • Create new ideas
  • Design
  • Speck in public
  • Edit
  • Write clearly

Leadership

 

  • Arrange social functions
  • Motivate people
  • Competitive
  • Negotiate agreements
  • Decisive
  • Plan
  • Delegate
  • Run Meetings
  • Direct others
  • Self-controlled
  • Explain things to others
  • Self-motivated
  • Get results
  • Solve problems
  • Mediate problems
  • Take risks

Creative, Artistic

 

  • Artistic
  • Music appreciation
  • Dance, body movement
  • Perform, act
  • Draw, sketch, render
  • Play instruments
  • Expressive
  • Present artistic ideas

 

Power Words for Your Resume


Accelerated

Accomplished

Achieved

Adapted

Administered

Advanced to

Advertised

Advised

Analyzed

Approved

Arranged

Assembled

Assisted

Built

Calculated

Changed

Clarified

Collaborated

Collected

Compiled completed

Composed

Conceived

Conceptualized

Conducted

Constructed

Consulted

Controlled

Converted

Coordinated

Correlated

Created

Defined

Delegated

Demonstrated

Designed

Detailed

Developed

Devised

Directed

Discovered

Distributed

Doubled

Drafted

Earned

Edited

Educated

Effected

Eliminated

Engineered

Established

Estimated

Evaluated

Examined

Executed

Expanded

Expedited

Explained

Facilitated

Financed

Formed

Formulated

Founded

Governed

Graduated

Guided

Halved

Headed

Hired

Identified

Illustrated

Implemented

Improved

Increased

Influenced

Informed

Initiated

Innovated

Inspired

Installed

Integrated

Interpreted

Interviewed

Invented

Investigated

Justified

Keynoted

Launched

Led

Licensed

Maintained

Managed

Manipulated

Marketed

Mastered

Modified

Monitored

Motivated

Negotiated

Obtained

Operated

Organized

Originated

Overcome

Participated

Performed

Persuaded

Pioneered

Planned prepared

Presented

Processed

Programmed

Promoted

Proposed

Provided

Publicized

Purchased

Recommended

Reconciled

Recorded

Recruited

Reduced

Reinforced

Related

Reorganized

Reported

Researched

Reviewed

Revised

Scheduled

Served

Simplified

Solved

Sparked

Specified

Stimulated

Strengthened

Structured

Supervised

Surveyed

Synthesized

Taught

Trained

Transformed

Transmitted

Tripled

Unified

Used

Verified

Won

Wrote



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