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If you’re looking for an example objective for your resume, you’ve come to the right place. The mistake that many people make when writing a resume, cover letter or both is to be too vague or general. Remember that the goal of writing a great resume and cover letter is to GRAB the readers attention on the first read through of your resume and cover letter. It’s common place for a hiring manager or HR manager to go through a stack of resumes and cover letters in a quick scanning mode and trashing the resumes and cover letters that don’t grab him/her.

A traditional resume objective will tell you to include something like this:

• emphasize your primary qualifications and summarize them for the prospective employer <—close but not quite.
• Tell the prospective employer of the position you are seeking and your career goals <—- BORING!
• establish your professional identity <—–Like anybody cares!

An example of a bad objective for your resume would be:

“To become a meaningful part of a fast growing company as a management professional” <—Yes I’ve seen something almost verbatim like this on many resumes as their objective. This is seriously weak and pathetic and will end up with your resume in the trash before they stop laughing with how lame your resume objective is!

More than ever, companies are in the fight for their lives and will pay TOP DOLLAR for someone, anyone that can solve their problem, whatever it may be. Your resume objective must grab them by the throat and immediately make the reader think, “Hmmm, this resume objective is different from the others and sounds interesting. I’ll put this one in the pile for me to look at more closely later.”

So what should you write as a solid, attention grabbing resume objective? Anything that clearly states how you will SAVE the company money, MAKE the company money or whatever problem or challenge the position you’re applying for is mainly responsible for.

John Doe Resume:

Objective: To join a company and grow their market share by 28% in the NorthEast like I did for my current employer

Now if that doesn’t get the attention of an employer, nothing will.

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