The "career objective" line atop your résumé is looking quaint these days. Many résumés now start off with a qualifications statement or career summary -- a short wrap-up of the applicant's ...

Defining your purpose or objective is critically important to the development of your resume.

William P. Lowry, A Rapid, Objective Summary Technique for Use with Pairs of Vectors, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Vol. 39, No. 5 (MAY, 1958), pp. 266-272 ...