Resume objective, Yes or No?

This article is mainly from Heather Yang and I just made some additin to it.


Do you need an objective on your resume? Are you still struggling how to word your objective in the resume appropriately? I want a full time job, or seek employment in the government? What would be the best phrase to use? If you are still wondering, here’s a professional advice from HR: Stop it. Now.

Let me tell you why by asking this: will you use your lawyer to teach you how to spell? Probably not, why? Because they are too expensive and it’s not their job.

Same here, the job hunting objective or resume object is a nice-to-have but not a must-to-have, just show it in your cover letter instead of your resume. Because resume space is so expensive that you don’t want to waste a single word, and it’s not their job.

Also think this way, when you submit your resume to a Software Engineer job that already explained a software engineer in company A is your career objective, right? Then why say it again in your resume?

Remember, resume is a objective display about you, what school did you go to, where are you located, what project you have accomplished, what honor did you received. See the things in common? These items are all objective, it’s proved by a school, an organization, or government. And it contains all the key word HR professional or recruiting agency is looking for. You must have experienced job website that only requires a copy of your resume and that’s it. That’s why I say every resume word is expensive, because that’s your only chance to get noticed. If you are using any word or sentences that do not need to be there, you are wasting your most valuable assets.

HR hate to see self evaluation or objectives in the resume, because the information are not telling them anything they are interested about your qualification. Let the cover letter do the talking, and tell them how unique you are, and what is your career objective, and how you can bring value to the employer you are applying for. And what do you need to do now, is to delete the objectives from your resume.

Happy Job Hunting!





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