Passionate synonyms for a resume
Why replace it
Passionate is a feeling, and recruiters hire for evidence. It is also one of the words AI resume tools overuse, so it can make a real resume look generated. Show commitment through what you did in your own time or beyond the job's scope.
Synonyms by meaning
Pick the group that matches what you actually did, then the word that fits the context.
Commitment
- Dedicated
- Long tenure or sustained effort.
- Committed
- Mission-driven and nonprofit work.
- Devoted
- Care, teaching, volunteering.
- Driven
- Goal-focused roles like sales.
- Invested
- Long-term ownership of a product or community.
Energy and interest
- Enthusiastic
- Entry-level and customer-facing roles.
- Eager
- Graduates and career changers.
- Curious
- Research, engineering, UX.
- Engaged
- Community and stakeholder roles.
- Energetic
- Hospitality, events, fitness.
Mission focus
- Mission-driven
- Nonprofit, public health, education.
- Purpose-led
- Social enterprise and sustainability.
- Customer-obsessed
- Product and support in tech companies.
- Patient-centered
- Healthcare roles.
- Student-centered
- Teaching and education.
Before and after
The same bullet with a sharper word and a result attached.
Passionate about sustainability.
Launched a volunteer recycling program at a 900-person office that diverted 12 tons of waste a year.
Passionate software engineer.
Maintainer of an open-source date library with 2,300 GitHub stars and 40 contributors.
Passionate about helping students succeed.
Student-centered math teacher who raised state test pass rates from 58% to 81% in two years.
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