Positive personality trait
Clever
Quick to understand and skilled at finding useful solutions.
3 ready sentences Updated Run by Adrian Nutiu
What it looks like
- Finds a quick, smart way around a problem.
- Learns and understands things fast.
- Makes a useful thing out of what is at hand.
Fits when someone learns quickly and finds smart ways around problems
Not when clever would suggest a trick, or smartness without sincerity
How to say it
Replace the brackets with what the person actually did.
There is no resume line for this one: clever on a resume can sound like a trick. Describe the inventive fix and what it saved instead.
Fills [Name] in the reference and the report card comment, ready to copy.
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Reference or recommendation [Name] is clever at finding practical fixes: when [equipment failed or the budget was cut], they [found a simple solution] that saved [time or money].
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Report card comment [Name] is a clever problem-solver who often finds a new way to answer a question.
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In a story, shown not told The gate was jammed and the farmer was an hour away. She bent a spoon from the picnic basket and had it open in two minutes.
The clever apprentice fixed the jammed gate with a bent spoon.
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