Human Resources - Action Verbs to Use in Job Analysis
| Present | Offer for consideration. |
| Promote | Offer for consideration in a manner intended to attract favorable attention and influence acceptance or support. |
| Purpose | Offer for acceptance or adoption. |
| Provide | Furnish necessary information or services. |
| Recommend | Offer for acceptance and support a course of action to persons responsible for approval or authorization. |
| Review | Critically examine (completed work, reports, performance) to amend or improve. |
| Serve | Actively carry out duties within the framework of a specialized activity, such as a committee. |
| Superintend | Plan, organize, and control a function to achieve an organizational objective by leading and directing subordinates without giving detailed supervision. (Also see manage and supervise.) |
| Supervise | Instruct subordinates in details of the work they perform (either directly or by enforcement of well-established rules), allot work, observe performance in detail and work with subordinates to improve performance. |
RELATED VERBS - DIFFERENCES
| Assure | To give confidence to someone. |
| Ensure | To make certain. |
| Insure | To protect against loss. |
| Affect | To influence: implies the producing of an effect (cause) strong enough to evoke a reaction. |
| Effect | To cause: applied to that which is directly produced by action, process or agent. |