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Resume Objective or Summary of Qualifications?


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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