Your resume verbs are telling on you 😩

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The video addresses a high-anxiety pain point for job seekers with a clear, actionable framework that immediately improves their professional presentation.

Summary

The creator explains how to replace weak resume verbs with stronger ones that demonstrate ownership of tasks. She offers a free cheat sheet in her bio to help viewers improve their resume language.

Structure

1Identify the problem with weak resume verbs
2Define the difference between support work and ownership work
3Provide specific examples of verb swaps
4Advise on when to use ownership verbs
5Deliver CTA for the free cheat sheet

Product placement

The creator promotes her own "verb swap cheat sheet" which is a digital resource she created to help job seekers improve their resumes. It ACTS because she demonstrates its content (the verb swap table) on screen, explains its purpose, and directs viewers to download it from her bio link. Removing it would change the video as it is the primary subject and the reason for the CTA.

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Your resume said "assisted" so many times HR started wondering if you ever did anything on your own 😩 If you ran it, say you ran it. If you didn't, don't. Because a resume is a promise, and the interview WILL check. 👀 I made a FREE verb swap cheat sheet with stronger verbs, the 3 levels of work HR actually looks at, and a quick "did I really own this?" checklist. Grab it from the link in my bio 📌 #resumetips #jobsearch #careeradvice #hrtips #resumehelp

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Your resume verbs are telling on you 😩 JORDAN ELLIS ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Assisted with onboarding for new employees and scheduled orientation sessions. Supported the office manager with vendor invoices and purchase orders. Helped organize quarterly team meetings and prepared agendas. Handled incoming calls and emails for the department. Did you do ANYTHING?? 3.5 years in HR (recruitment & benefits) Verbs tell on you! Support work VS. ownership work Don't undersell yourself! Support vs. Ownership SUPPORT followed the steps OWNERSHIP made the call THE VERB SWAP Assisted with Coordinated Helped Led Suggested Implemented Only swap verbs that you can back up in an interview A resume is a promise Your resume gets you the interview. Your answers get you the job. Free cheat sheet Link in bio

Transcript

If your resume says you assisted, if your resume says you supported, if your resume says you helped, girl, did you really do anything? I worked in HR for over three and a half years, and one of the fastest ways I can tell someone's level is by the verbs they use on their resume. There's support work and then there's ownership work. Both are valuable, but if you owned it and didn't write it as so, you're underselling yourself. Support work means you follow a certain set of steps and the final call rests in someone else's hands. Ownership means you use your own judgment, made the decisions, and the results were on you. So if you ran the process from start to finish, assisted becomes coordinated. If you were in charge, helped becomes led. And if they use your idea, then suggested becomes implemented. Now before you go swapping every verb on your resume, only use ownership if you can explain it in an interview with specifics. Because if it overpromises, the interview exposes it. Or the job does. Either way, the truth is bound to come out. Your resume gets you the interview, your answers get you the job. Make sure they tell the same story. Free cheat sheet, link in bio.