Professional words for “help”
Seven verbs that sharpen vague "help" into the kind of support you actually provided.
"Help" is not wrong — it's just generic. In a CV, a case study, or a proposal, a reader wants to know whether you assisted, advised, championed, or enabled. Pick the verb that tells them which.
- 01Assist formal
play a secondary role in someone else's work
Assisted the counsel in preparing the brief.
- 02Support neutral
stand behind — people or initiatives
We support the migration timeline.
- 03Facilitate formal
make a process easier without doing it yourself
Facilitated weekly cross-team syncs.
- 04Enable formal
make something newly possible
The API enables partners to self-serve.
- 05Bolster formal
strengthen something already working
The data bolstered the original claim.
- 06Champion formal
advocate for something publicly
She championed the accessibility rewrite.
- 07Aid formal
provide resources toward a goal
The tooling aids debugging in staging.
"Assist with helping" is redundant. Pick one.