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Home> Resume Writing Tips> Resume Summary

Resume Summary - Get This Right and Claim YOUR Interview

A resume summary statement is a great way to start your Resume or CV (after your name, contact details and sometimes education).

It offers a lot more flexibility than an Objective Statement, which by definition needs to be a very short concise statement that is accurately lasered in to a specific job / career and reader.

Without doubt as a recruiter the biggest mistake I see when reviewing CV / Resumes is non specific objective statements.

It offers a lot more opportunity to include more information, and the structure can be modified to suit your writing objectives.

Summary statements can also be referred to a profile statements or executive summary.

Like a objective statement the summary MUST be written with a specific role and ideally person in mind. Demonstrating your skills, experience, and characteristics fit exactly with the readers requirements.

However unlike an objective you have far more copy space to play with, and if you want may choose to embed an objective within the summary.

So how do you write a CV /  resume summary statement that will win you the interview?

Firstly like with an objective you must start out with a clear understanding of what your target reader is looking for. So use the  target career form to help zero in on their needs.

Then you need to think of all the  role / reader relevant information that you may wish to use in your summary statement. Use the  Microsoft Summary Statement Form
I have provided here to help you.

The summary is basically of the best bits of your CV / resume that you want to really emphasize for your reader and therefore may include:

  • Educational achievement
  • Work achievements
  • Social achievements
  • Subject matter achievements (written or speaking)
  • Relevant Skills
  • Characteristics (this adds personality which is vital - take the Free MAPP test if your struggling for great content)
  • Sports achievements if relevant (show a dedicated personality)
  • Any support or charity work
  • Hobbies (If they show you in a good and relevant light for the role)

There is a lot to choose from, so some brutal editing may be necessary to make the statement concise and targeted on the reader, but the summary statement does give you a great chance to get your message across.

A lot of effort should go into the resume summary statement as it's your best selling opportunity within the whole document, so don't waste it.

Keep to about 2 - 4 concise paragraphs.

I have created a Resume Summary Form in pdf which can be downloaded viewed, or copied.

It's also available in Microsoft word format and can be downloaded together with our other free resume forms from here.

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