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Is "Increased" Hurting Your Resume?

Hiring Manager Verdict

'Increased' is a promise you have to keep with a number in the same breath. Increased sales — by a dollar? By 30%? Hiring managers are trained to ask, and if the answer isn't on the page, we assume the small one. The verb is great; the evidence makes it real.

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What to write instead of "increased"

Growing revenue

  • grew
  • expanded
  • drove up

Raising performance

  • lifted
  • boosted
  • elevated

Building volume

  • scaled
  • multiplied
  • built

How it reads in a resume bullet

  • ExampleGrew the client book by re-activating dormant accounts.
  • ExampleLifted attachment rates by retraining the team's discovery questions.

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