A professional summary on a resume: Useful or silly?

Post date: 2019-04-13 01:05:39

I recently revamped my resume with the help of my usually super helpful career counselor at my grad school. But there was one thing she very strongly recommended that made my internal record skip/screech: Putting a professional summary on my resume. Deets below the fold.

I worked in editing for about a decade out of school. Then I returned to study counseling. Now I've got one foot in counseling and one foot in behavioral health QA (which employs the editing skills), and I'm trying to pivot toward the latter.

My career lady says a summary specific to whatever job I'm looking at will help unify otherwise scattered job titles. But when I was a manager, I mostly rolled my eyes at summaries on potential hires' resumes. They always came off a bit corny and desperate, except on an honest-to-God CV.

What are your thoughts? Good idea? Bad idea? Good but with caveats?

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