Resume - The 7 Most Important Things to Say About Yourself in Your Career Summary Section

By Scott Shane Holt

Including a powerful summary section at the top of your resume is the best way to get your next boss excited to meet you and want to call you in for an interview. The best summaries make bold claims about what you can do for your next employer. Here's how to do it:

Effective summaries have two parts: first a few sentences, then some bullet points. It should be easy for a person to scan in 10 seconds. Bosses are looking for 7 things; use as many as possible, but only those which show your best skills and experience.

These 4 are usually in sentence (or partial-sentence) form at the start of the summary:

Describe yourself as a professional or manager or executive, starting with two adjectives or the number of years' experience that you have: "A highly capable and reliable administrator."

Write 1 sentence that describes your experience in the functional/technical/hard skills: "Over 15 years' editorial experience, specializing in women's service and spirituality topics."

Soft skills and their results: "Builds effective teams resulting in highly productive work environments."

Personal statement that reflects how you work best, or how you're committed to your career: "Creates a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence."

Then, the bullet points will contain these 3 items:

Technical skills: "Able to measure saleability and log D in pharmaceutical compounds."

Career accomplishments (with concrete numbers whenever possible): "Increased sales by 141% ($1.2 million) over a two-year period despite poor market conditions..."

Three words that describe you as a professional in your field: "Resourceful and reliable; efficient and effective."

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Scott Shane Holt has seen it all while hiring over 100 people on Wall Street, in good times and bad, and as an executive coach helping managers and other professionals accelerate their careers.

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