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Plain-language definitions for recruiting and career terminology.

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Action Verb: An action verb names what you did in a resume bullet, but it becomes useful evidence only when paired with relevant context and an outcome.

Education Section: The education section records relevant degrees, schools, training, and academic details with emphasis adjusted to your career stage and target role.

Functional Resume: A functional resume groups experience by skill instead of date, which can highlight capabilities but make career history harder to evaluate.

Hard Skills: Hard skills are teachable, observable abilities such as software use, data analysis, equipment operation, accounting, or language proficiency.
Hybrid Resume: A hybrid resume combines a focused summary or skills area with dated work experience, balancing relevance with a readable career timeline.

Quantifiable Achievement: A quantifiable achievement connects a work contribution to a meaningful number such as volume, time, quality, revenue, cost, or reach.

Resume: A resume is a targeted summary of relevant experience, skills, education, and achievements used to support a specific job application.
Resume Format: Resume format is the way sections, chronology, hierarchy, and visual layout organize evidence for recruiters and application systems.
Resume Headline: A resume headline is a short professional label that identifies your target or current specialty without replacing evidence in the resume.
Resume Objective: A resume objective states the role or direction a candidate seeks and is useful only when it adds focused context supported by evidence.
Resume Template: A resume template supplies reusable structure and styling, while the candidate remains responsible for relevant evidence, accuracy, and readability.
Reverse-Chronological Resume: A reverse-chronological resume lists the most recent role first, making career dates, progression, and recent evidence easy to follow.

Skills Section: A skills section lists relevant tools, methods, languages, credentials, or capabilities so employers can find important qualifications quickly.
Soft Skills: Soft skills are interpersonal behaviors and work habits such as communication, judgment, collaboration, adaptability, and conflict resolution.

Tailored Resume: Learn what resume tailoring changes, what must remain factual, and how to prioritize relevant evidence without rewriting everything for each application.

Work Experience: Work experience is the resume section that connects roles, dates, responsibilities, and achievements to evidence relevant for a target job.