Author: Carson Kohler

Carson Kohler is a full-time writer at The Penny Hoarder, where she has covered career, job-search, and personal-finance topics for the past three years. She earned her master's in writing at the University of Missouri-Columbia and her bachelor's in English at Clemson University. Since becoming a regular contributor to TopResume, the leading resume-writing service in the world, in 2018, Carson has written dozens of articles on every aspect of the job-search and resume-writing process. Connect with Carson on Twitter and LinkedIn.  

How to Write a Powerful Resume Summary (Examples)

Carson Kohler explains why we should replace the old-fashioned resume Objective with the newer Summary statement which is more effective and more modern than the Objective statement.

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