Resume Objective
Many job seekers include an “Objective” or “Career
objective” on their resumes.
It is a statement which expresses an employment goal in one
or two short phrases and tells the employer what your target
job is or what you want to do.
We consider that this category should be omitted from the
resume.We recommend job-seekers to leave off the objective
paragraph and use that valuable 'resume real estate' to include
more information on accomplishments and experience.
Some of the reasons for omitting the resume objective are:
- While including a resume objective can’t hurt seriously
a candidate’s chances, being too specific will prompt
a hiring manager to judge his/her credentials only against
that specific objective, eliminating the candidate from
jobs she/he would want that are slightly different from
the objective.
As it is best to use a single objective on a resume, you
may need more than one version of your resume for your job
search
- Even when the resume objective, commonly at the top of
the page, is a general one, the hiring manager won’t
look beyond the objective paragraph unless he is specifically
interested. Lets suppose that the objective is “progress
to a marketing research position”. In this case your
resume may never be passed along to the Sales department
where someone may be interested in your knowledge and background.
- Resume objective statements are most often used by recent
graduates and job seekers doing a career
change. If you decide to include an objective statement,
make sure that you have a targeted job, you know what skills
you want to mention or you are applying for a particular
position. In writing the statement be concise and to the
point, state your immediate career goals and make
a direct relationship to the employer’s needs.
Do not include an objective statement when:
- there are many potential positions which you are qualified
for in one organization
- you cannot be specific about your targeted job
- you are using it at a job fair
EasyJob Resume Builder,
the expert system with all the accumulated knowledge of human
resources experts and professional resume writers, will tell
you when and where to include an objective statement.
As a general rule, we suggest entry
level job seekers as well as career
change job-seekers to insert a short sentence on their
career objective within the Profile
section and not as a separate heading at the top of the page.
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