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Job Seeker Services
Career Resource Center
Tips
Phrases to Consider in Resumes, Letters, or Interviews
Expressions that can be used in the resume summary and letters:
- Extensive experience
- Comprehensive experience
- Major strengths
- Outstanding results
- Capable of
- Key strengths include
- Proven executive
- Outstanding track record
- Progressive experience
- Substantial experience
- Outstanding record in
- Highly successful record in
- Thorough familiarity with
- Successful accomplishments in
- Results-oriented assistant
- Broad range experience
- Increasing responsibility
- Worked effectively with
- Strong background in
- A proven record in
- Areas of expertise
- Results-oriented professional
Phrases which are useful in discussing job change:
- Career objectives
- New career direction
- Re-evaluation/Reassessment of goals
- Interested in changing current business affiliation
- Position more in line with current career goals
- Career change
- New opportunity
- New career challenge
- New position
Phrases to explain loss of job:
- Acquisition
- Consolidation
- Decentralization
- Reduction in force
- Resizing
- Streamlining
- Change in strategic direction
- Curtailment
- Divestiture
- Relocation
- Restructuring
- Closing
- Cutback
- Merger Reorganization
- Retrenchment
Phrases which indicate part in group effort:
- Contributed to
- Instrumental in
- Participated in
- As a team member
- Key member of
Phrases to describe education other than listed degrees:
- Additional training in
- In-house training
- Studies in
- Attended
- Program in
- Business Management Programs
- Continuing Ed
- Seminar in
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