Career Development Services Summer 2015 Action Verbs The goal of your résumé is to get you an interview, but you have only seconds to GRAB the employer's attention, so start off each of your accomplishment or skill statements with a verb that describes the action you took to achieve your goals. Action verbs add POWER and PUNCH to your résumé by immediately emphasizing how you get results through action. When using action verbs to describe tasks and accomplishments in your current job, make sure they are in the present tense. For example, "assist" rather than "assisted." Conversely, use the past tense when illustrating achievements in a previous job. 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