A hiring expert explains why vague resumes often get filtered out before reaching the hiring manager. A clear resume summary that shows who you are as a professional, not just what you've done, makes the difference between getting noticed and getting lost.
If your resume does not have an objective, you are taking the risk of your resume not being submitted to the actual hiring manager. Very often when I spent years in HR and in talent acquisition, we would look at resumes that don't have objectives and we would wonder, what job is this particular individual applying for? Because sometimes the skills and the job descriptions are very, very similar. And if you are not clear on your resume exactly what your objective is, then your resume can go missing in translation. So we're trying to avoid that to happen. So what is a summary? A summary is actually a vision of yourself, of your professional self. So how do you see yourself as a professional? Are you a successful extrovert or are you a successful introvert that's dedicated to research and data? What are the best aspects of you? The summary, like I said earlier, provides the resume a human touch so that a potential employer gets a human feeling of who you are and not just a chronological order of achievements, skills and experiences. Regarding the objective, I know you have questions. Should I make my objective generic or should I make it very focused and should I make it a niche?