How to Write a Career Objective

Your Career Objective makes your goals clear to whomever reads your resume.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• your resume

1. Think about what you want to achieve in your career. Advancement? Management opportunities? Travel?

2. On your resume, after your header and contact info, enter your career objective.

3. Keep it to one sentence, focusing on the positive goals you want to achieve. Try to avoid anything negative in your statement.
   
   For example, if you are job-hunting currently to leave a position where you know you'd do a better job than your current boss, don't say "Looking for a career in management so I don't have to listen to anyone boss me around." It would be better to say "Looking for leadership opportunities and increased responsibility."

4. Read through your resume and make sure it is formatted well. Does your career objective line up with your experience? It should be a realistic step from where you are now on the career ladder.

Tips & Warnings

• While some people leave a career objective off of their resumes completely, it is still an acceptable way to start your resume.
• If applying for a particular job, make sure your career objectives line up with the opportunity available. For instance, if you don not want to travel, but the job requires travel 50% of the time, it may be a waste of time to apply for this particular opening.

[MariM]

on 1/15/2009 Thanks, good tips