Adjectives are claims. Verbs are events.
When you write that a system was fast, robust, or mission critical, you are asking the reader to trust your opinion of your own work. When you write that a system was reduced, migrated, or renegotiated, you are giving them the telemetry.
The job-hunt industry runs on adjectives because adjectives are easy to generate and impossible to index. Both the automated parser and the human reviewer have to do real work to verify an adjective, which means they usually skip it.
Parsers match the event. They look for the action word attached to the technology or the metric. They want to know if you built, deployed, patched, or retired something. If your resume is a wall of descriptions, the parsing layer sees empty space where a relationship should be.
Humans trust the event because an event has a shape. It implies a before and an after. "Managed a complex cloud migration" is a blur. "Migrated three legacy databases to Postgres under zero downtime" is a timeline.
Delete every soft descriptor on your document and put the action in its place. Take out the dynamic, the passionate, and the results-oriented. Leave the verbs that survived the quarter.
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