Power Words to help you write a winning CV

Personal Qualities to put on a CV

Here's a list of words that represent personality traits people in the business world find positive. Go through the list and select the words that seem to describe you. Use them (in moderation) in your CV and in interviews.

1. able, accurate, adaptable, adept, adroit, alert, ambitious, analytical
2. bilingual, bright
3. capable, competent, confident, consistent, co-operative, creative
4. dedicated, dependable, detail-orientated, dynamic
5. educated, effective, efficient, energetic, enthusiastic, executive calibre, experienced, expert
6. fast, fit, flexible friendly
7. gregarious
8. hardworking, healthy, highly motivated, honest
9. imaginative, ingenious, innovative, intelligent, inventive
10. judicious
11. kind
12. licensed, literate
13. managerial, multilingual, multitalented
14. non-smoking
15. organised, outgoing, outstanding
16. patient, people-orientated, perceptive, personable, poised, polished, principled, productive, professional, proficient
17. qualified, quick-thinking
18. ready, reliable, resourceful, responsible
19. sane, scholarly, scrupulous, seasoned, self-assured, self-reliant, serious, shrewd, skilled, smart, spirited, stable, successful
20. talented, tenacious, top-level, trained, trustworthy
21. upbeat
22. valuable, versatile, veteran
23. well-educated, well-groomed, willing, witty, worldly
25. young, youthful

“Action” Words

These words make a strong impression when you want to promote your achievements. They're ideal for CVs, reports and memos.

1. accelerated, accessed, achieved, acquired, acted, administered, advised, appointed, arranged, assigned, assisted, attended
2. booked, broadened, budgeted
3. checked, collaborated, competed, completed, conceived, conducted, constructed, consulted, contributed, controlled, co-ordinated, correlated, counselled, created
4. delegated, demonstrated, designed, determined, developed, devised, directed, doubled
5. edited, effected, eliminated, established, evaluated, executed, expanded, expedited, explored
6. formulated, founded
7. generated, guided
8. handled, heaped, helped, hired
9. identified, implemented, improved, increased, initiated, instituted, instructed, interacted, introduced, invented, investigated
12. launched, led
13. maintained, managed, marketed, met with, monitored, motivated
14. negotiated
15. opened, operated, organised, oversaw
16. participated, performed, pinpointed, planned, prepared, presented, prevented, processed, produced, programmed, promoted, proposed, provided, purchased
17. questioned
18. recruited, reduced, reorganised, reported, represented, resolved, restructured, reversed, revised
19. saved, scheduled, secured, selected, set priorities, set up, shaped, sold, solved, structured, supervised
20. taught, tested, tightened, trained, trimmed
21. upgraded, used
23. won, worked with, wrote