Visit 90% of the websites of firms (aka factories) promoting résumés and their samples will almost always show the use of an “Objective” and while it may be called something like a “career objective” o r”Professional Objective,” even just an “Objective,” the inclusion of such words are inappropriate.
If you think about it for a minute, you will recognize that the applicant (you) has one objective: ”get a job with a descent wage, adequate benefits, and with some opportunity for growth” while the company (them) has one objective: ”hire the best qualified applicant possible, someone that will hit the ground running and make us a profit from the first day – and – hire that applicant at the lowest possible cost to the company.
Frequently, these “objectives” are often in conflict and that is why the ‘best of the best’ have not used an “objective” by any name for more than 10 years now. One Human Resource Professional was even quoted as saying “Objective: That’s those 1-2 lines of pulp fiction we don’t read anyway,” so don’t waste your time and energy trying to write an objective, especially if your intention is to simply tell everyone about your strengths – the ability to leap tall buildings in a single bound, being more powerful than a locomotive, and being faster than a speeding bullet.
