You’re not still using an Objective statement to start your Resume, are you?

You might be old if your resume looks like this;

Objective

A confident, detail-oriented, resourceful professional with excellent organizational skills and ability to function at a highly efficient level in a fast-paced environment.  Ability to liaison adeptly between executive, management and support levels.  Professional relationship builder with the capability to establish and maintain relationships in a wide variety of aspects.  Proven leadership skills, ability to work within a team and exceed goals. Excellent interpersonal skills, presentation skills, sales and project coordination experience.

Since no one really reads your resume, you need catch the reader's attention.  A job summary does that, an objective statement doesn't.  The Summary should be built from the job description, pulling the key words out and using them to describe how you can fill the role.

Summary

Your job description calls for a confident, detail-oriented, resourceful professional with excellent organizational skills and ability to function at a highly efficient level in a fast-paced environment.  As you can see from my qualifications below, I have these attributes and I’m looking for a fast-paced environment such as yours.  I have the ability to liaison adeptly between executive, management and support levels.  Over the years, I have developed my professional relationship building skills with the capability to establish and maintain relationships in a wide variety of aspects.  As you can see, I have proven leadership skills, ability to work within a team and exceed goals. My excellent interpersonal skills, presentation skills, sales and project coordination experience are leading indicators my ability to not only hit the ground running with your company but to quickly become you star team member.

Now, here’s the hard part.  You have to write this summary for every job you apply to because every job has its own key words and hot buttons.  Catch the Hiring Manager with a quick, to the point statement about how you can fill their role.

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David McElhaney

Global Recruiters of Huntsville

256.533.1444

dmcelhaney@grnhuntsville.com

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