Power Verbs for Job Seekers: Hundreds of Verbs and Phrases to Bring Your Résumés, Cover Letters, and Job Interviews to Life

Chapter 3. Hard Skills

Accounting and Finance

ADJUST

{also use in Accountability, Common Sense, Cross-Cultural Competency, Flexibility, and Work Ethic}

(1) accommodate; alter; amend; attune; bend; change; correct; fine-tune; fix; modify; pacify; rectify; regulate; resolve; settle; tune up; tweak

Résumé bullet points:

• Adjusted to Sage accounting software

ADMINISTER

{also use in Accountability, HARD SKILLS: Administrative, Organizational, Planning and Time Management, Reliability, and Self-Manageable}

(1) control; deal out; direct; dispense; furnish a benefit; give out; govern; hand out; manage; mete out; order; oversee a process; run; supervise

Résumé bullet points:

• Administered accounts payable system

AUDIT

{also use in Attention to Detail, ...