Chapter 4. Experience, Credentials, Education
Accomplishments and Achievements History
ABSORB
{also use in Accountability, Attention to Detail, Cognitive Load Management, Commitment and Dedication, Common Sense, Cross-Cultural Competency, Flexibility, Learn, and Self-Manageable}
(1) become captivated, fascinated, engaged, interested, or preoccupied in; fascinate
(1) The strategic planning process absorbed much of my time.
(2) draw into oneself; grasp; grip; realize; recognize; take in; understand
(3) acquire; assimilate; attract; consume; digest; endure; engulf; imbibe; soak up; sustain; take in; take up; use up
Résumé bullet points:
• Absorbed additional new department, including personnel, budget, and objectives, and led all managers in department productivity gains of prior year
ACCELERATE
{also use in Commitment and Dedication, Self-Manageable, Motivated, and Time and Organizational Management}
(1) gather speed; go faster; grow; hurry; increase speed of; pick up the pace; quicken; rush speed up
(2) cause to occur sooner
Collocates to: change, depreciation, development, process, program, place, time, trend
Résumé bullet points:
• Accelerated the process of new hire to fully trained status by 20 percent without any loss in efficiency
(1) acknowledge or declare approval; applaud; cheer; commend; hail; praise vociferously; sing one’s praises
(1) Steve Jobs was widely acclaimed as a visionary.
Collocates to: actor, author, critic, entertainer, film, hero, inventor, movie, musician, public, television, writer
Résumé bullet points:
• Acclaimed by industry trade press to have developed the most innovative training process in the industry, enabling new hires to achieve certification status in half the time of the industry standard
ACCOMMODATE
{also use in Common Sense, Compassion, Cross-Cultural Competency, Customer Awareness, and Outgoing}
(1) house; lodge; provide accommodations; put up
(2) adapt; be big enough for; contain; have capacity for; hold; reconcile; seat
(3) do a favor or a service for someone; oblige
(4) acclimate; acclimatize; adjust; become accustomed; familiarize; get used to; make fit or suitable for
(5) allow for; assist; be of service; consider; find ways to help; oblige
Collocates to: change, demand, desire, difference, growth, guest, need, passengers, request, schedule, space, special case(s), student
ACCOMPLISH
{also use in Accountability, Accuracy and Precision, Attention to Detail, Drive, Leadership, Motivated, Novel and Adaptive Thinking, Passion and Tenacity, and Work Ethic}
(1) achieve; attain; bring about; carry out; cause to happen; complete; do; finish; gain; get done; finish; fulfill; make happen; make possible; produce; pull off; reach; realize; undertake
Collocates to: aim, feats, goals, learning, luminary, mission, objectives, purpose, tasks
• Accomplished record for new sales increasing new accounts by 25% over prior year
ACCUMLATE
(1) accrue; add; amass; build up; collect; gather; hoard
(2) accrete; grow larger by adding; mount up
Collocates to: assets, data, debt, evidence, information, influence, knowledge, power, money, wealth
ACHIEVE
{also use in Attitude, Drive and Passion, Education, Leadership, Motivated, Novel and Adaptive Thinking, Risk Tolerant, and Self-Confident}
(1) accomplish; attain; complete; conclude; do; finish; get; perform; pull off; reach; realize
(2) succeed in doing something
Collocates to: balance, fame, goals, honor, objectives, outcome, reputation, results, success
Résumé bullet points:
• Achieved the status of Fellow
ACQUIRE
{also use in Customer Awareness, Design Mind-Set, Gather Data and Convert into Information, and Risk Tolerant}
(1) attained; buy; come to possess; earn; gain; get; hold; obtain; purchase; receive
Résumé bullet points:
• Acquired the highest IEEE certification in 2012
ACTIVATE
{also use in Commitment and Dedication, Critical Thinking and Problem Solving, HARD SKILLS: Time and Organizational Management, and Novel and Adaptive Thinking}
(1) acetify; become active; energize; galvanize; get going; initiate; make active; set in motion; set off; start; stimulate; trigger; turn off
Résumé bullet points:
• Activated the budget contingency for the project and delivered the results on schedule
ACTUALIZE
{also use in Attention to Detail, Common Sense, Motivated, and Novel and Adaptive Thinking}
(1) make real or actual; make something actual or real; realize; represent or describe realistically
(2) fulfill the potential of
Collocates to: act, communion, desire, ideal, goal, potential, virtue
Résumé bullet points:
• Actualized virtual transactions, giving customers a human contact
ACTUATE
{also use in Attention to Detail, Accuracy, Creativity, Customer Awareness, Leadership, and Risk Tolerant}
(1) activate; arouse to action; give incentive for action; motivate; move to act; put into motion; start; trigger
Collocates to: application, breaks, desire, device, drive, motion, plan, program, shock
ADAPT
{also use in Attention to Detail, Commitment and Dedication, Common Sense, Creativity, Cross-Cultural Competency, Flexibility, HARD SKILLS: Engineering and R&D, and Learn}
(1) acclimate; accommodate; adjust; change; conform; fashion; fit; get used to; make suitable; reconcile; square; suit; tailor
(2) make fit, often by modification
(3) cause something to change for the better
Résumé bullet points:
• Adapted innovative database approaches and identified two new untapped market segments that added 10 percent profits in 2 years
ADD
(1) add up; adjoin; affix; append; attach; combine; count up; include; insert; put in; tally; total; tote up
(2) augment; complement; enhance; enlarge; improve; increase; intensify; supplement; swell
ADDUCE
(1) allege; bring forward; cite as evidence; lead to; present; provide advance evidence for something; put forward
(1) “Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory.”
—Leonardo da Vinci
Collocates to: argument, authority, case, concept, data, development, evidence, example, reason, term, theory
ADOPT
{also use in Accountability and Commitment and Dedication}
(1) accept; agree to; approve; assume; embrace; endorse; espouse; foster; implement; take in as one’s own; talk on; take up; take on board
Résumé bullet points:
• Adopted the ISO standards for Environmental Management System (EMS)
ADVANCE
{also use in Self-Manageable}
(1) continue; evolve; forward; further; go ahead; go forward; proceed; increase; move ahead; move forward; move on; press forward; press on; proceed; progress
(2) build up; develop; enhance; expand; promote; rise; spread
Résumé bullet points:
• Advanced a more rigorous standard for customer service representatives
AFFECT
(1) act physically on something or someone; change; concern; connect closely and often indiscriminately; have an effect on; have an emotional or cognitive impact on; impinge on; impress; influence; move; shape; strike; sway; touch
(2) distress; disturb; move; touch; upset
(3) assume; fake; imitate; pretend or have; put on
Collocates to: ability, behavior, change, community, condition, decisions, factor, health, issue, level, life, performance, policy, quality
Résumé bullet points:
• Affected the more adopted timely approach for resolving customer complaints by showing employees videos of the actual impact of customer service failures
AMALGAMATE
(1) combine; fuse; integrate; join together; merge; mix; unite
AMASS
{also use in Drive and Passion, Education, Motivated, and Self-Manageable}
(1) accrue; accumulate; assemble; build up; collect; compile; gather together; hoard; pile up; store up
Résumé bullet points:
• Amassed 75 customer appreciation letters and recommendations
AMELIORATE
{also use with Accountability. Accuracy and Preciseness, Attention to Detail, Creativity, Leadership, Learn, Novel and Adaptive Thinking, and Self-Manageable}
(1) amend; correct a mistake; enhance; enrich; get better; improve; make better; perfect; tolerate; upgrade
(2) correct a deficiency or defect; make right a wrong; take action that makes up for one’s negative or improper actions
Collocates to: concern, condition, consequences, distress, effect, effort, pain, plan, problem, situation, stress, symptom, system, tension
ASCERTAIN
(1) determine; discover; establish; find out; learn; realize; uncover
(2) find out with certainty
ASSEMBLE
(1) accumulate; combine; convene; group; mass produce; produce standardized goods in large volumes; unite
ATTAIN
{also use in Education}
(1) accomplish; acquire; achieve; arrive at; conquer; gain; make; manage; obtain; procure; reach; realize
• Attained the highest level of certification awarded by the IEEE
AUTHOR
{also use in Communications and Creativity}
(1) create; pen; scribe; source; write
(1) “He who purposes to be an author should first be a student.”
—Dryden
Résumé bullet points:
• Authored the company’s diversity engagement strategy which received national acclaim for the firm
AVAIL
(1) be of advantage, help, take; use to one’s advantage to accomplish an end
Collocates to: benefit, freedom, language, opportunity, option, privilege, protection, resource, service, tool
BEGET
(1) cause something; create something; father; lead to; procreate; reproduce
BEGUILE
(1) attract; charm into doing; deceive; divert; enthrall; entice; fascinate; influence by slyness; lure; mesmerize; put under a spell; sawder; woo
(1) “I am not merry; but I do beguile the thing I am, by seeming otherwise.”
—William Shakespeare
(2) “If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it—the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded.”
—Ann Radcliffe
Collocates to: audience, composition, view
BOOST
(1) advance; amplify; augment; enhance; further; heighten; hoist; improve; increase; lift; make better; raise
(1) Tim’s new idea boosted sales in the market by 20 percent.
CATAPULT
(1) throw or force something
(2) advance quickly over peers; leap frog or jump obstacles or barriers
CIRCUMNAVIGATE
(1) go around but not through; pass; get around something by intelligence, nerve, guile, luck or determination; skirt
COADJUTE
(1) cooperate; work together
COALESCE
{also use in Accountability, Cognitive Load Management, Commitment and Dedication, Cross-Cultural Competency, Flexibility, Leadership, Learn, Social Intelligence, and Team Player}
(1) blend; combine; come together as one; fuse or cause to grow together; join; merge; mingle; mix together different elements or parts; unite
Collocates to: beliefs, filter, ideas, image, matter, movement, shapes, opposition, views
COLLABORATE
{also use in Commitment and Dedication, Communication, Cross-Cultural Competency, Self-Manageable, Take Direction, and Work Ethic}
(1) act as a team; assist; cooperate; pool resources; team up; work together on a common enterprise or project; work jointly with
(1) Dawn successfully collaborated with two other agencies.
(2) cooperate as a traitor; quisling
Résumé bullet points:
• Collaborated with local universities to develop hands-on industrial training programs as extensions to classroom learning
COLLATE
(1) arrange; assemble; catalog; check; classify; codify; compare critically; gather; order; organize; set up
Collocates to: data, information, numbers, record, results, report, study, survey
• Collated 75 years of consumer records into firm’s first searchable database
COMMUNICATE
(1) be in touch; commune; connect; converse; convey something; correspond; exchange a few words; share; transfer; write
COMPLETE
{also use in Accountability, Commitment and Dedication, Education, Self-Manageable, and Work Ethic}
(1) be done; choate; conclude; entire; finish a task; integral; perfect; through; unabridged; uncut; whole; wrap up
Résumé bullet points:
• Completed the industry’s top certification in less time than anyone at the firm
COMPORT
(1) act; agree; behave in a certain, proper way
COMPOSE
(1) collect; contain; control; cool down; practice; restrain; settle; simmer down
(2) create; incite; produce; write
CONCEIVE
{also use in Accountability, Critical Thinking and Problem Solving, and Self-Management}
(1) create; envisage; imagine; invent original idea; picture; visualize
(1) I conceived and wrote the firm’s long term strategic plan.
(2) begin life; dream; elaborate; form; make up
CONTROL
{also use in Self-Manageable and HARD SKILLS: Administrative and Organizational}
(1) be in charge of; be in command; direct; dominate; govern; have influence or power over; manage; organize; oversee; rule; run
COORDINATE
{also use in Attention to Detail, Critical Thinking and Problem Solving, and Self-Manageable}
Résumé bullet point:
• Coordinated $20 million sales and marketing budget for gaming division of global firm
CREATE
{also use in Creativity}
Résumé bullet points:
• Created a spreadsheet report process that improved productivity and reduced division costs by $200,000
DEFINE
{also use with Accountability, Accuracy and Preciseness, Attention to Detail, Critical Thinking and Problem Solving, and Design Mind-Set}
DESIGN
{also use in Creativity and HARD SKILLS: Computer Literate, Engineering, and Research}
(1) aim; contrive; devise; intend; make designs; mean; plan; propose; set apart for some purpose
(2) conceive; construct; create; draw up blueprints or plans; fabricate; invent; originate
(3) blueprint; cast; chart; draw up; frame; map; project; set out
Résumé bullet points:
• Designed a tracking system that allowed service repairman and their vehicles to be routed to jobs by an algorithm based on geographic and priority
DEVELOP
{also use in Self-Manageable}
(1) achieve; advance; build up; evolve; expand; exploit; expound; extend; gain; generate; grow; increase; mature; strengthen; unfold; widen
(2) make known gradually
Résumé bullet points:
• Developed and maintained documentation and communications for two worldwide projects
Résumé bullet point:
• Devised the solution for more efficient routing of service trucks, saving thousands of dollars of fuel and making service calls more efficient. Developed algorithm that calculated new emergency calls, distance from current call, and estimated time of service
DIRECT
(1) conduct; command; lead; take action immediately
(2) control the course; guide; point the way; show the way
Résumé bullet points:
• Directed the firm’s diversity awareness program
• Directed in-house sales training classes
DISCOVER
{also use in Common Sense, Intelligence, Critical Thinking and Problem Solving, Gather Data and Convert into Information}
(1) ascertain; be first to learn something; determine; expose; find out; hear; learn; realize, see, or uncover something
Résumé bullet points:
• Discovered new market for industrial waste creating a new revenue channel of $100,000 annually
DISTRIBUTE
(1) apportion; arrange; deal; dispense; divide; divvy; dole out; measure; parcel; portion; scatter; share; spread
Résumé bullet points:
• Distributed surplus material from production to sheltered workshops in the area providing hundreds of handicapped workers with continued employment
DOUBLE
(1) duplicate; improve or grow something twice its previous level or size
Résumé bullet points:
• Doubled customer retention rates increasing profits by $800,0000
DRIVE
(1) force; guide; herd; impel; make; motor; plunge; pilot; propel; push; ram; run; shove; steer; thrust; wheel
EARN
{also use in Education}
(1) acquire as a result of one’s behavior or effort; draw down; gain; make; merit; pull down; receive; receive wages; win; work for
(2) receive salary, commission, pay, or rent for one’s effort
(3) gain interest as profit
Résumé bullet points:
• Earned an MBA and CPA in less than three years while working full time
ENHANCE
{also use in Leadership and Motivated}
(1) add to; augment; boost; develop; endow with beauty and elegance; grace
(2) improve the quality or condition of
(3) digitally or electronically improve the quality, tone, pitch, image of photos, recordings, images
Résumé bullet points:
• Enhanced key account cross-selling activities by 17 percent in one year using multidiscipline team approach to customer renewal project
ESTABLISH
{also use in Accountability, Reliability, and Self-Confidence}
(1) begin; create; enact; ensconce; found; install; institute; prove; set up; settle; start
(2) make firm; make stable
(3) bring about; cause to happen
(4) settle in an office or position
(5) cause to accept or recognize; set up permanently
(6) demonstrate; prove
Résumé bullet points:
• Established first company job share policy allowing firm to keep more experienced workers and hire additional talented candidates
(1) be more or greater than; beat; go beyond; surpass what was expected or thought possible; outdo
Résumé bullet points:
• Exceeded all company records for reduction of loss prevention, reducing losses as percent of sales by 30 percent in one year
EXPAND
(1) enlarge; increase; inflate; swell
(2) open up; spread out; stretch out; unfold
(3) dilate; enlarge; extend; make greater in size, bulk, or scope
(4) work out or show the full form of
Résumé bullet points:
• Expanded the conversion rate of leads by 75 percent in 2 years, increasing the number of new sales by 40 percent
EXPEDIT
{also use in Drive and Passion and Time Management}
(1) accelerate; hurry up; rush
(2) speed up or make easy the process or action of
(3) dispatch; issue officially; send off
Résumé bullet points:
• Expedited the acceptance pace of new policy applications by 50 percent by adding automated policy holder data from firm’s data warehouse
FIX
{also use in Accomplishments and Achievements and Critical Thinking}
(1) affix; arrange; assign; attach; blame; fasten; impute; pin on; place saddle; produce deep impression; secure
(2) engrave
(3) mend; replace; restore
Résumé bullet points:
• Fixed and repaired many old pieces of production equipment still functional, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in capital costs
Résumé bullet points:
• Founded the firm’s first employee social capital training program
FULFILL
{also use in Accountability and Reliability}
(1) carry out; complete an assignment; discharge; execute; exercise; implement; perform; satisfy
Résumé bullet points:
• Fulfilled the requirements for certification, becoming the first employee from the company to be recognized by the Project Management Institute
FURTHER
(1) additional; advance; back; give aid; go beyond; support; promote
Résumé bullet points:
• Furthered my education by volunteering to work the graveyard shift so I could attend morning classes at a nearby university
GUIDE
{also use in Accountability}
(1) channel; conduct; direct; funnel; point
(2) escort; lead; pilot; route; show; steer; supervise; surround; usher
Résumé bullet points:
• Guided the project management team tasked with rebranding the 75-year-old flagship brand; succeed in re-launching with a 10% gain in market share
HELP
{also use in Companionate and Polite}
(1) abet; aid; assist; benefit; change for the better; improve; succor
Résumé bullet points:
• Helped strategic planning committee draft the firm’s new mission statement
(1) My business plan impacted the investment club by creating a great deal of positive publicity.
(2) fix firmly; forcefully wedge; make contact, especially force tightly together
Résumé bullet points:
• Impacted positive consumer reaction to the firm’s new market entry by heavy use of celebrity endorsements and the mass media
IMPLEMENT
{also use in Accountability and HARD SKILLS: Administrative and Organizational}
(1) accomplish; apply; carry out; complete; effect; employ; enforce; execute; fulfill; finish; instigate; put into action; put into operation; put into place; put into practice; put into service; realize; use
Résumé bullet points:
• Implemented first social media marketing campaign improving brand awareness by 30%
IMPROVE
{also use in Accountability and HARD SKILLS: Research and R&D}
(1) ameliorate; amend; better; build up; develop; employ; enhance in value; enrich; expand; further; get better; help; increase; make better; meliorate; perfect; raise to a better quality; upgrade use
(2) convalesce; get better; get stronger; get well; make progress; mend; perk up; rally; recover
Résumé bullet points:
• Improved customer cross sales by over $250,000 in first year of program
INITIATE
{also use in Critical Thinking and Self-Manageable}
(1) begin; commence; create; inaugurate; induct; install; instate; instigate; introduce; invest; kick off; open; set off; start
(2) coach; instruct; mentor; teach; train; tutor
• Initiated customer retention, renewal, and referral program which resulted in an increase in renewals and referred sales leading to a growth in profits of $600,000
LEAD
(1) be first; captain; command; conduct; control; direct the operations, activity, or performance; escort; go ahead; go in front; guide on a way especially by going in advance; head; manage; officer; pilot; show the way
Résumé bullet points:
• Led all 500 salespeople in the firm in new sales for five consecutive years (2007-2011)
MAKE
{also use in Engineering and R&D}
(1) assemble; become; build; cause; compose; construct; create; develop; do; enact; erect; execute; fabricate; fashion; forge; form; frame; manufacture; mold; prepare; produce; put together; require; shape
Résumé bullet points:
• Made 20% more prototypes in the same time frame than any department
MANAGE
{also use in Administrative, Organization, and Planning, and HARD SKILLS: Business and Business Sense}
(1) administer; be in charge of; conduct or direct affairs; oversee; regulate; run; supervise
(2) do; fare; fend; get along; get by; make do; muddle through
(3) control the behavior of; handle; succeed in dealing with
(4) succeed despite difficulties
Résumé bullet points:
• Managed a department with a budget of $22 million
MARSHAL
(1) arrange; assemble; gather all resources to achieve a goal; mobilize; organize
(2) put in delineated order
MAXIMIZE
{also use in Accomplishments and Achievements, Accountability, Drive, and Passion and Tenacity}
(1) make best use of; make as great or as large as possible; raise to the highest possible degree
Résumé bullet points
• Maximized the annual bonus opportunity for sales people by June four years in row (2008-2012)
ORGANIZE
(1) arrange systematically; categorize; make arrangements, plans, or preparations for; order; put in order; sort out; systematize
(2) control; coordinate; fix; manage; take charge
Résumé bullet points:
• Organized the annual company 3-day sales meeting and training seminar for 300 attendees
ORIGINATE
(1) bring into being; create or initiate; have a specified beginning; initiate; invent; make; start off
(2) begin; come from; derive; start; stem from
Résumé bullet points
• Originated the “money back membership guarantee” for association memberships which increased memberships with no negative financial backlash
PIONEER
{also use in Creativity, Drive, Passion and Tenacity, Motivated, Self-Confidence, and Self-Manageable}
(1) be the first to develop new ideas or concepts; lead the way
Résumé bullet points
• Pioneered free trials in an expendable product field resulting in 10-13% growth rates over five years
PRODUCE
(1) achieve; accomplish; finish a task
(2) bring forth; produce; yield
• Produced the largest increase in personal sales over the prior year in company history, 280% (2011–2012)
QUARTERBACK
(1) direct; lead; manage
RECRUIT
(1) bring in; hire for specific skills, abilities, and capabilities; seek out over others
Résumé bullet points:
• Recruited to turn around unprofitable, unproductive, inefficient division
RECTIFY
{also use in SOFT SKILLS: Accountability and HARD SKILLS: Accounting and Finance}
(1) amend; correct; fix; put right; resolve; set right
(2) adjust; cure; remedy; repair; mend
(3) convert
SECURE
(1) fasten; fix securely; hold; lock; make safe
(2) acquire; get hands on; get hold of; obtain
SELECT
(1) choose; pick; vote
(2) chose one in preference over another; pick out one based on some quality of excellence
(3) limit to certain groups based on some standard
Résumé bullet points:
• Selected to lead corporate team tasked with applying for the JD Powers award for customer satisfaction
• Selected to create and develop firm’s exhibit and presence at global logistics conference and exhibit, Hamburg, Germany 2012
(1) find a solution; settle
(2) provide or find a suitable answer to a problem
Résumé bullet points:
• Solved numerous marketing problems by serving as inside consultant willing to look at issues with unbiased point of view
SPEARHEAD
{also use in Professional Demeanor and Risk Tolerance}
(1) be in front of something; point; take the lead
Résumé bullet points:
• Spearheaded the firm’s strategic redeployment into recycling of Freon gases
TRANSFORM
(1) change from one form to another; remake; renew; upgrade
(2) change the personality or character of one
(3) change the condition, nature, or function of
Résumé bullet points:
• Transformed out of date, demoralized, logistics operation into a state of the art career maker
WIN
(1) claim victory; succeed
Résumé bullet points:
• Won the Industry’s Star Performer award three years (2009-2011)
Education and Training, Degrees, and Certifications
ACHIEVE
{also use in Achievements and Accomplishments, Attitude, Drive and Passion, Leadership, Motivated, Novel and Adaptive Thinking, Risk Tolerant, and Self-Confident}
(1) accomplish; attain; complete; conclude; do; finish; get; perform; pull off; reach; realize
(2) succeed in doing something
Résumé bullet points:
• Achieved the highest industry certification possible
AMASS
{also use in Accomplishments and Achievements, Drive and Passion, Motivated, and Self-Manageable}
(1) accrue; accumulate; assemble; build up; collect; compile; gather together; hoard; pile up; store up
Résumé bullet points:
• Amassed 75 customer appreciation letters and recommendations
ATTAIN
{also use in Accomplishments and Achievements}
(1) accomplish; achieve; acquire; arrive at; conquer; gain; make; manage; obtain; procure; reach; realize
Résumé bullet points:
• Attained the industry’s highest certification
COMPLETE
{also use in Accomplishments and Achievements, Accountability, Commitment and Dedication, Self-Manageable, and Work Ethic}
(1) be done; choate; conclude; entire; finish a task; integral; perfect; through; unabridged; uncut; whole; wrap up
Résumé bullet points:
• Completed four-year training and apprenticeship in plumbing and pipefitting at ABC Technical and Vocational School
EARN
{also use in Accomplishment and Achievements}
(1) acquire as a result of one’s behavior or effort; draw down; gain; make; merit; pull down; receive; wages; win; work for
(2) receive salary, commission, pay, or rent for one’s effort
(3) gain interest as profit
Résumé bullet points:
• Earned profit in first year after taking over failing division
(2) advance by proficiency, skill, or achievement; mark in degrees of measurement
Résumé bullet points:
• Graduated with an MBA having gone to school while continuing to work full time
HONOR
(1) acclaim; admire; celebrate; distinguish; exalt; extol; glorify; hail; laud; magnify; panegyrize; praise someone or something for going beyond normal responsibilities; venerate
Résumé bullet points:
• Honored by Industry Trade Association for innovative ideas to grow business
LAUD
(1) acclaim; applaud; celebrate; extol; mention; praise; speak well of
RECERTIFY
(1) certify again; meet the standards; qualify again
(2) declare something true, accurate, or certain