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Crafting A Stellar Career Summary For Your Resume
Are you a career changer? Or, are you satisfied with your stable career but interested in updating your resume? Are you a professional who has tried different things but are still searching for the kind of work that best suits you? Whatever your career situation, what your resume most needs is a stellar career summary. What difference can a career summary make for you? Here are 4 reasons why you need one in your resume: 1.) A career summary communicates more about you and does so more powerfully than an objective statement.
All right, so a career summary is a good thing. What does it look like? A summary can be a short paragraph of 2-4 sentences or a brief phrase or sentence introducing a series of 4-8 bullets, depending on the communications style you prefer. It can be preceded by a job title or list of specialty areas that you wish to highlight. The summary always goes at the top of the resume immediately following your name and contact information. Generally a good career summary will profile some mixture of the following kinds of critical details:
Okay, so all that sounds good, but what does a career summary look like? Here are two different versions of a summary that you can play with and make your own: Career and Workforce Development Administrator Coaching ? Training & Development ? Program Design
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