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Summary of Qualifications for a Resume: 20+ Examples

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Your resume needs a summary of qualifications if you want to get more interviews without a ton of work. Why?

Picture a hiring manager. Her name's Kelly. She's got 300+ resumes to read (that's about the size of a Stephen King book, but a lot more boring.) Some don't even make it past her Applicant Tracking Software. Others ramble, so she skims and moves on.

Want better chances for your resume? Read on, and learn to write a summary of qualifications statement to hook her right away.

This guide will show you:

  • How to write a summary of qualifications that gets more interviews.
  • What to put in your resume's qualifications summary statement to make it a bestseller.
  • Why (and how) you must quantify a summary of qualifications.
  • How to make qualifications resume statement drastically more effective.

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