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WildSpark · 09-18-2019, 02:12 PM

What say you people and hiring managers of City Data? Is a summary a waste space or pivotal?

Suburban_Guy · 09-18-2019, 02:26 PM

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fishbrains · 09-18-2019, 04:46 PM

Waste of time and space. I rarely look at resumes, preferring to look at the data that comes through the fields within our HR website. That software does not have a space for summary, so I will never see it.

By the way, it is ‘nay’. Neigh is the sound a horse makes.

ERH · 09-18-2019, 09:43 PM

Critical, if structured to summarize your value to the hiring manager, i.e., what you bring to the table. It should focus largely on hard skills, not soft -- do you drive resume growth, improve profitability, transform business operations, etc.? It should NOT focus on what you want (typical objective statement). Present yourself as the solution to the hiring manager's problem.

jaynaydee · 09-19-2019, 02:32 AM

I put 2 or 3 bulletpoints at the top of mine.

FWIW, I took an internal career development webinar and the HR folks presenting the webinar recommended this as well.

selhars · 09-19-2019, 02:48 AM

I like seeing one.
Why not summarize your strengths?...so the person will want to read more. It can't hurt to highlights...as a way to grab interest without the HR/hiring person actually having to work at it or "read much."

Especially if there's no cover letter submitted.

deposite · 09-19-2019, 05:34 AM

Stopped adding it.

Florida2014 · 09-19-2019, 06:22 AM

They all essentially say the same thing so it's pointless.

"Driven IT Professional Seeking Long-Term Role"

I've never used one, not once and my resume has received a number of hits via the traditional online routes (Indeed/Monster).

macroy · 09-19-2019, 11:22 AM

And there you have it - responses all over the place. Which is really what the answer is - it depends on the person reading your resume.

Personally - I think if it doesn't take away space from other more pertinent data on your resume, having it isn't going to hurt. Those who want it will have it, those who don't will just skip it.

steiconi · 09-19-2019, 01:42 PM

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Originally Posted by fishbrains

By the way, it is ‘nay’. Neigh is the sound a horse makes.

And yea, not yay.

Yea or nay means yes or no.
Yay or neigh means "hooray, horse noise!"

If you're making this kind of mistakes on your resume, you'll turn off potential employers.

Unless you are trying to promote horse noises. In that case, yay!