Chapter 7
Objective
A Professional profile is often, but not always, immediately followed by an Objective section. The task of the Objective section is to explain your preferred career direction and detail what you hope to achieve from your future career.
Should you include an Objective on your CV?
As with the Professional profile, I almost always advocate the inclusion of such a section – if space allows, although being only a sentence or two in length there should normally be enough room to squeeze it in.
As I say, it is not normally essential – one could argue that there is plenty of room in the cover letter to cover the same ground. However, as with the Professional profile, don’t forget that people reading your CV may not necessarily ...
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