[Jobs] Objective on Resume

[Charlotte Czarnecki]

Hello.  Thank you all for the ideas about having or not having an objective 
on a resume.  I'm sorry to say that as an employed rehabilitation counselor, 
our agency doesn't provide up-to-date training about acceptable or current 
resume trends.  I get a lot of my information from books or lists like this. 
I really like the concept that one does not have to have an objective on a 
resume.  So many of my clients are looking for a variety of jobs and I think 
sometimes that big objective statement on the top of their resumes hinders 
their search.  It's either too obvious they want that position or people 
have a very hard time formulating a good objective and it shows on the top 
and their resumes are ignored.  With that said, I wanted to ask something 
else about resumes that I struggle with on my job and I've often debated 
about for my personal resume.  What are the current formatting trends for 
resumes.  How can a resume appear at its visual best?  I fight with our job 
placement person a lot about this because she refuses to change her ways. 
She likes to put skills statements in paragraph form and  just uses a lot of 
old design techniques.  I really have a problem with her because she still 
likes to put "references available upon request" on resumes, especially for 
those that do not contain a lot of work history.  I cringe but I'll say that 
I love where I work.  Thanks again for your ideas.

Charlotte