Keeping with the recent theme of considering your reader when you draft your resume, here’s an article that gives you words to avoid and words to use as you assemble your professional history.
The lists are starkly different. Not surprisingly, the words that drove HR pros crazy were empty buzzwords. The writer is tempted to use them because they sound good and are part of the background noise of our lives. The problem is, everyone shares the same background. When you imagine the person soldiering through the stultifying task of reading resumes, you can appreciate that they quickly weary of seeing the same meaningless mumbo-jumbo.
On the other hand, words that point to specific, verifiable achievements get attention. At the most basic level the buzzwords tend to be vague adjectives, while the words that stand out tend to be verbs.  One suggests passivity and lazy thinking, the other action and accomplishment.
If you had to choose between people to work for you which would you pick?