One of the most common things that people leave out of their resume is the objective or summary section. Whether it's because they don't know what to say or they didn't feel it was important, anyone who skips this may have a lot of trouble getting noticed.
The objective or summary section is there to get the attention of the reader. Think of it as you would a book jacket. The writing there is to get you to invest time in buying and reading the rest of the book. The same goes for your resume.
Employers are inundated by the resumes they receive. If they don't have a way to filter out the good, the bad, and the ugly, they'd never get home at night. This is one way for them to apply that filter.
The objective should give them a brief overview of what you want to do and what your qualifications are to do it. Without that, a recruiter has to go over your whole resume to find the same information. So if you include it, don't you think that recruiter will think more highly of you than if you didn't?
An example of an objective/summary is:
Over 20 years of accounting experience, including in-depth financial statement analysis, with a reputation of streamlining processes and saving valuable time and resources.
Tomorrow we will go over the Experience section of a resume.
Do you have an objective section on your resume? How important do you think it is to have one? Let us know in the comment section below.
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