Resume Keywords Ideas/Action Verbs for your resume (I heard many employers say this was an issue). See below for this laundry list of resume keywords.
Here is a laundry list of keywords that employers look for on resumes…
Does your resume use these words? Note, the resumes I see need tons of work (and I mean tons). Please watch my resume advice below.
Here are my thoughts on your resumes:
Action Verbs
- Accomplished
- Achieved
- Adapted
- Advanced
- Analyzed
- Attained
- Balanced
- Brainstormed
- Budgeted
- Built
- Calculated
- Centralized
- Championed
- Changed
- Clarified
- Coached
- Collaborated
- Communicated
- Complied
- Constructed
- Converted
- Created
- Decreased
- Delivered
- Designed
- Determined
- Developed
- Devised
- Directed
- Distributed
- Documented
- Earned
- Eliminated
- Energized
- Engineered
- Enhanced
- Established
- Exceeded
- Excelled
- Executed
- Expedited
- Extracted
- Facilitated
- Finalized
- Followed-up / through
- Forecasted
- Formed
- Fulfilled
- Gained
- Generated
- Handled
- Headed
- Identified
- Implemented
- Improved
- Increased
- Initiated
- Innovated
- Installed
- Instituted
- Integrated
- Introduced
- Investigated
- Landed
- Launched
- Lead
- Liquidated
- Managed
- Manufactured
- Maximized
- Negotiated
- Operated
- Optimized
- Ordered
- Organized
- Out paced
- Outsourced
- Overcame
- Oversaw
- Partnered
- Performed
- Piloted
- Pinpointed
- Planned
- Positioned
- Predicted
- Prepared
- Presented
- Prevented
- Processed
- Procured
- Produced
- Qualified
- Quantified
- Rectified
- Redefined
- Redesigned
- Re-engineered
- Related
- Resolved
- Restored
- Restructured
- Revitalized
- Salvaged
- Satisfied
- Saved
- Set-up
- Streamlined
- Tailored
- Uncovered
- Unified
- Upgraded
- Utilized
- Validated
- Wrote
Traits and Skills
- Accurate
- Active listening
- Adaptable
- Agile
- Capable / capability
- Collaborative
- Competitive edge / advantage
- Cool under pressure
- Communication
- Confident
- Conflict resolution
- Consistent
- Creative / creativity
- Critical thinking
- Cross functional
- Culturally conscious
- Ethical
- Facilitator
- Flexible
- Focused
- Decision making
- Detail oriented
- Determination
- Diligent
- Directive
- Dynamic
- Effective
- Efficient
- Enthusiastic
- Follow-up
- Go getter
- Hardworking
- Initiative
- Innovative
- Integrity
- Intuitive
- Investigative
- Judgment
- Leader
- Mindful
- Motivated
- Negotiations
- Objective
- Organized
- Quality
- Quick learner
- Partnering
- Passionate
- Persuasive
- Prepared
- Proactive
- Problem solve(r)
- Productive
- Professional
- Prompt
- Provide / provision
- Punctual
- Reliable
- Resourceful
- Respectable
- Respectful
- Responsive
- Selfless
- Service
- Strategic
- Tactical
- Task oriented
- Teamwork
- Time manager
- Transformative
- Troubleshooter
- Unifying
- Visionary
- Well-written
Terms and Processes
- Activity Based Costing (ABC)
- Asset Management
- Backlog
- Bullwhip effect
- Buyer
- Buying/selling
- Capital budget
- Case fill rate
- Change management
- Commodity
- Competition
- Competitive advantage
- Continuous improvement
- Contract negotiations
- Cost reduction
- Customer relations/satisfaction/service
- Customs compliance
- Cycle time
- Data analysis
- Data mining
- Database management
- Decision making
- Delivery
- Demand planning
- Demographics
- Discount
- Distribute/distributor
- Distribution management
- Documentation
- E-commerce
- Efficiency
- Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
- Emerging markets
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
- Facility management
- Factory
- First in first out (FIFO)
- Fleet management
- Forecasting
- Globalization
- Green manufacturing
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- Hazardous materials (HAZMAT)
- Health and safety
- Implementation
- Import/export
- Internal quality audits
- International trade logistics
- Inventory control
- ISO 9001/9002
- Just in time (JIT)
- Kanban inventory
- Kaizen continuous improvement
- Labor relations
- Last in first out (LIFO)
- Lead time
- Lean manufacturing
- Logistics planning
- Management
- Management information system
- Manufacturing
- Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II)
- Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
- Materials planning
- Measurements
- Modular integration/modularity
- Multi-site operations
- Negotiations
- Ocean, air and land freight
- Operating budget
- Operations
- Order management
- Outsourcing
- Overhead
- Packaging
- Partnership
- Performance improvement
- Planning
- Procedures development
- Process improvement
- Procurement
- Product flow
- Product technology
- Production
- Production costs
- Profit and Loss
- Project management
- Purchasing
- Quality/quality assurance/quality control
- Raw materials
- Reengineering
- Request for information (RFI)
- Request for proposal (RFP)
- Request for quotation (RFQ)
- Resource management
- Retailer
- Route management
- SAP
- Seasonal
- Service level agreements
- Shipping and receiving/handling
- Six Sigma
- Sourcing
- Specialization
- Storage/storing
- Strategic management /planning
- Supply chain logistics
- Supply chain optimization
- Supply relationship management
- Sustainability
- Tariff Rating and Traffic
- Technology
- Total quality management (TQM)
- Transport/transportation
- Truck Load/LTL /Cartage
- Vendor management
- Vertical integration/disintegration
- Warehouse management
- Wholesale/wholesaler
Thank you. Sime
Dr. Sime (Sheema) Curkovic, Ph.D., Professor, Operations/Supply Chain
Western Michigan University, Haworth College of Business
“WMU Integrated Supply Management (ISM)…Nation’s best undergraduate SCM program (Gartner); 2nd in SCM technology (SoftwareAdvice); 2nd in top global SCM talent (SCM World)”