When it comes to resumes, it’s not just about your experience. Describing your skills and expertise using the right key words in your resume could make a difference to the hiring manager. The truth us hiring managers don’t spend much time reviewing resumes. Therefore, it is essential you use the right words.
According to a Career Builder survey, hiring managers would like to see these terms in a resume:
- Achieved: 52 percent
- Improved: 48 percent
- Trained/mentored: 47 percent
- Managed: 44 percent
- Created: 43 percent
- Resolved: 40 percent
- Volunteered: 35 percent
- Influenced: 29 percent
- Increased/decreased: 28 percent
- Ideas: 27 percent
- Negotiated: 25 percent
- Launched: 24 percent
- Revenue/profits: 23 percent
- Under budget: 16 percent
- Won: 13 percent