For writing your professional experience, add your professional experience to your resume portion on your e-portfolio by adding each of the following:

·         your job title

·         your experience to your job title

·         specific tasks through action verbs

 

Step 1: Choose your job title. 

Here is a list of job titles: http://jobsearch.about.com/od/job-titles/fl/job-titles-a-z.htm

Step 2: Add your experience to your job title.

·         Little to no experience: Intern or trainee

·         Has education but may not have experience or much experience: Entry level or junior

·         Lot of experience: Senior, Principle or Lead

·         Self-employed but works for a company: Contract or Freelance

Step 3: Add your specific tasks using an action verb. Refer to the action verb list from chapter-II.

In this chapter, I have added verbs that showed the impact that you had on a company.

·         Verbs for some change: changed or modified

·         Verbs for big changes: overhauled, reorganized, restructured, revamped or redesigned

·         Verbs for new changes: updated or upgraded

·         Other verbs not included in our lesson include problems and solutions.

·         Verbs for finding problems: identified/diagnosed/detected problems

·         Verbs for creating solutions: solved/resolved/reconciled problems or recommended solutions

Employers like when an employee finds and solves problems. On a customer service manager’s resume, you might see:

“Identified problem in customer service.”

Don’t forget that if you still have the job, you want to use the – ing form of the verb like “managing 10 people.” If you are writing about a job that you had in the past, please use the past tense form like “managed 10 people.”

Put that experience on your ePortfolio, and you can put that same information on LinkedIn as well.

Additional Practice with Action Verbs

Practice 1: Based on the active verbs list you've reviewed, write a synonym for each of the following verbs.

1. created: _______________

2. researched:________________

3. managed__________________

4. worked on___________________

5. presented____________________

6. taught_______________________

7. wrote________________________

8. changed______________________

9. overhauled______________________

10. updated________________________

11. identified_______________________

12. solved__________________________

Practice 2. Fill in the blank with an appropriate action verb. In some cases, there may be more than one possibility.

1. ABC Company (July 2012 – May 2015) Senior Project Manager______________100 people

2. ABC Company (January – present) Office Manager______________ 30 people

3. ABC Company (February 2002 – 2004) Graphic designer______________ 10 logos.

4. ABC Company (February 2001 – 2006) Hotel front desk clerk______________ 2 new clerks.

5. ABC Company (February 2002 – 2007) School principal______________ the school policies.

6. ABC Company (November 2008 – March 2012) Dentist______________ problems with patients’ teeth.