Your professional summary is your ticket to an interview
Professional Summary section is a must have on your resume if you want to get a job or get promoted within the tech industry.
Recruiters typically spend less than two minutes reviewing resumes and if your professional summary aka hook is missing or is not concisely representing your best qualifications, you are destined for failure.
Resume is the only resource that will get you an interview and a professional summary is the hook for a recruiter to pay closer attention to your entire resume.
WEAK professional summary example
Enthusiastic and passionate techie with a sales background. Organized event planner and dancer. From organizational events to the role of leader I enjoyed developing my analytical skills and business acumen, while building a trust with my team, through Agile and Scrum practice.
WHY WEAK?
1st sentence has too many buzzwords (enthusiastic, passionate)
2nd sentence is missing relevant metrics
3rd sentence is too generic, abstract, recruiter did not find anything interesting to continue reading this resume.
STRONG professional summary example
Dynamic project manager with 5+ years in healthcare e-commerce and fintech. Proficient in stakeholder management, customer relations as part of projects within a $1 million budget. Focused on coordinating 10+ cross-functional teams and scrum implementation.
Here is why this professional summary example can get you a job as Project Manager?
1st sentence clearly demonstrates your expertise as PM in combination with metrics and tech sub industries.
2nd sentence represents your detailed experience with proof of budgeting.
3rd sentence focuses on team development/leadership skills (as an important and specific part of the job you're applying to). You gave the recruiter hints about your projects, team, leadership skills with concise numbers.
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