Resume Objectives - Resume Objectives Are Overrated
Resume objectives is one of the most critical and most misunderstood aspects of a powerful job resume. Bottom line, resume objectives are overrated and misused.
Let’s get right to the point.
Point #1…. An objective is a goal. It is something you work toward achieving. It is typically something personal that you want to accomplish – It’s about you.
Point #2…. A job resume is an advertisement about your job skills. You want people reading the resume to buy your product (that would be you). Your resume needs to show how the reader is going to gain future benefit from buying your product – It’s about the reader.
Point #3…. So, resume objectives is a polar opposite statement by default. Why would you talk about your personal objective when you are trying to advertise the future job value you bring to someone else? This is not going to get you any closer to your personal goal of getting hired.
Think of it this way – if you could make the opening of your resume read like a well designed billboard along a busy city street, what would it say? How would you catch attention of readers and make them want to contact you?
Forget about resume objectives and think in terms of a resume value proposition statement – an opening to your resume that quickly catches the attention of the reader based on what the reader is looking for – the value you will bring to the reader’s world. See the difference?
Try this new approach. You will see a big difference.
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