Carl Bradford

Posts Tagged ‘Resume Objective Statement’

A huge number of people search for sample resume objectives every day, and every day that leads to many, many resumes getting rejected and fewer interviews for those that use them.

I have just published a video that discusses why.  See what to substitute for a resume objective statement by viewing this video.

Inaccurate advice about resumes is all over the Internet so it’s no wonder that about 95% of all resumes I read aren’t very good and the majority are just plain unacceptable.

Most people just don’t know how to write a resume that gets interviews and after all that is the first and foremost reason for having a resume in the first place. It’s not the only reason, but its the most important reason.

I review hundreds of resumes every month and I’ve been doing it for over 40 years – see my bio – so I know what works and what doesn’t.  Most resumes don’t work!

An example of misdirected resume advice

I’ve just finished recording and making available 15 Free Resume Videos that illustrate the strategies that I personally use to increase the number of interviews I get for my candidates by over 300%. You can access them all at my companion website Essential Resume Strategies.

So, I wanted to see just what other videos might be available of You-Tube, so I quickly launched a search under the broad topic of resumes.  The very first video that came up was a short video about how to properly structure your resume.  I notice the video as of today had 32,481 views.

The trouble is one piece of advice is to include an objective on your resume.  Now admittedly this was perhaps directed to new college graduates, but the video didn’t say that.  Anyway, I have proven that when you include an objective statement in your resume, it’s the wrong thing to do over 99% of the time.  By proven, it means I’ve tested this in what marketers would call an A/B or split test.

I won’t go into the reasons here in this blog post, but I make my case in the 15  Free Video series at Essential Resume Strategies.  They’re free and I suggest you go there now and access them.  In these 15 videos I go over strategies.  I doubt you’ll find some of these strategies anywhere else, but they’re part of the reason I was able to increase the number of interviews I get for my candidates by 312%.