hey Don Georgevich here with job
interview tools in this video I'm going to
show you how to write your job objective
statement on your resume a chap
objective statement is very important
because it communicates to an employer
the type of job that you're seeking now
there is some controversy on whether you
should use them or not some people feel
they're outdated but I totally disagree
I think it's so much better to
communicate upfront to an employer of
what type of job that you're looking for
that way they don't have to read your
entire resume to figure out what you
want makes sense right and I thought so
so to write your job objective what we
want you to do is ask yourself the
following questions here you know
basically you know what is the title of
the job that you're looking for it could
be marketer it could be accountant
financier whatever just put that down
and then write down what type of work
that you want to do and then in what
industry and now it's as simple as you
create a statement that sums up your
answers to those questions into a
qualifying job objective statement so
let's take a look at well it's not the
wrong way first because most people do
it the wrong way here's an example of a
weak job objective statement to work in
an ever challenging environment that
will utilize my skills as a controller
in the fast-food industry and that's
kind of that's not bad but you know I
think we could do a lot better I mean
for one it kind of sounds like what
everybody else is doing a statement like
this kind of sounds like everybody
else's to work in an ever challenging
environment everybody wants to be
challenged and to utilize my skills it's
all just a bunch of cliched phrases now
here's a better way to write your
objective seeking a controller position
in the wholesale foods industry so what
we had before was to work in an ever
challenging environment that will
utilize my skills as a controller in the
food industry or seeking a controller
position in the wholesale foods industry
I think that's much better so let's take
a look at what that looks like on
resume there see we've got objective
seeking a senior controller position in
the wholesale foods industry that's
exactly what it's going to look like now
optionally you can take this objective
and you can make those all capitalized
like that if you want up to you a resume
is all about you and what you want and
that's really about it let's take a look
at a couple more examples of how you can
write your objective okay so let's look
at another one here here's another
example of a weak objective
results-oriented professional seeks
project management position in high-tech
manufacturing industry this is weak
because it uses a very cliched phrase
results-oriented I hate it
employers hate it interviewers hate it
and it's used by everybody on the planet
it's just an awful way to start off any
sentence everybody's results-oriented
you don't want to go around saying that
you are instead you know talk about the
results you deliver so here's a better
way to write that objective seeking a
senior project management role in the
high-tech manufacturing industry simple
right that's what I thought it's not too
hard just put a little bit of thought
into it got some examples there another
thing I like about a job objective
statement is that it tells prospective
employers what type of job that you are
looking for and when you can nail this
down yourself when you know exactly what
you're looking for this is going to help
you focus everything else on your resume
towards that target job and it's going
to help you write a more focused resume
that has a much better chance of getting
you the interview because it's a lot
easier to find a job when you know
exactly what you're looking for if
you're just out there looking around
you're willing to take any
thing then you're lacking focus and
that's going to make it a lot harder for
you to find a job so writing your
objective is really one of the most
important things you can do before you
write your resume because it's going to
help set the stage for the rest of your
resume a lot of job seekers they just
like to they like to write a resume
that's going to be a catch-all for all
employers because they want to appeal to
everybody and that's the worst thing you
can do you don't want to appeal to
everybody because when you try to appeal
to everybody you appeal to nobody you're
much better off having a qualifying
resume that disqualifies you for certain
employers but makes you highly qualified
for other employers so my advice to you
is make the job of the employer a lot
easier put an objective on there and it
communicates what you're looking for
what you want to do and I think you're
going to get a much better response rate
off of your resume you're going to get
more calls for job interviews than if
you had a vague job objective statement
up there ok I'll see you in the next
video where we talk about how to write a
skills summary or an accomplishment
section see in the next video bye-bye