Resume Action Verbs and Bullet Formulas

Hiring managers skim bullets. The first word should be a verb. “Responsible for managing social media” tells them nothing. “Scheduled 12 posts a week in Canva and tracked saves in a spreadsheet” tells them you did the work.

The four-part bullet

• Verb: built, reconciled, taught, diagnosed, shipped, documented.
• Object: what you touched (invoices, a React page, a class of 32).
• Method: tool or process (Tally, Excel, Jira, EMR).
• Result: number, frequency, or quality if you have one. Skip fake percentages.

Verbs by type of work

• Operations: scheduled, dispatched, audited, restocked, escalated.
• Support: resolved, documented, trained, routed, followed up.
• Engineering: implemented, refactored, tested, deployed, monitored.
• Finance: reconciled, filed, prepared, flagged, closed.
• Teaching: planned, assessed, differentiated, conferenced, recorded.

Weak to stronger

Weak: “Handled customer queries.” Stronger: “Answered 30–40 chat tickets a day in Freshdesk and tagged repeats so the team could write a help article.”

Weak: “Worked on a college project.” Stronger: “Built a attendance logger in Python that exported CSV for a 60-student class; documented setup in the repo README.”

Weak: “Knowledge of GST.” Stronger: “Prepared GSTR-1 data from sales invoices in Tally for a 20-invoice weekly batch under CA review.”

What not to invent

Do not add “increased revenue 200%” unless you can explain the baseline. Frequency (daily, weekly) and scope (how many customers, beds, tickets) are safer than marketing-style percentages. MineResume will not write bullets for you — type only what you can discuss.