Professional Highlights and Summaries, make your resume stand out.

A professional summary and professional highlight portion of your resume can be a great way to quickly showcase value add to potential hiring managers and recruiters.

But how do we do this?

You can do this by showcasing a few things in your resume, value add, industry experience, metrics, and skill sets, and certifications.

Why do this?

As a recruiter who looks at dozens of resumes a week….adding this specific information allows your resume to have more searchable keywords that can be tracked in Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS), boolean strings, and search results. When you are applying directly to those types of industries, the probability of your resume being a match will increase.

Contact Information

Your name, email, contact information, LinkedIn hyperlink, and phone number. (We have to get a hold of you somehow)

Portfolio Link (if applicable)

Professional Summary

Your professional summary can give you the opportunity to have brief way to summarize some your experience. (You can shape this into any profession that applies to you…IT (Information Technology, Marketing, Design, Etc…)

Note: Your professional summary can mirror your “about” section on your LinkedIn Profile.

Example of a professional summary. (Example purposes only)

A results-driven Business Development and Sales Professional with nearly 15 years of experience driving revenue growth in construction, healthcare, and technology (SaaS) sectors. Proven track record of building and maintaining strong client relationships, identifying new business opportunities, and executing strategic sales initiatives that have generated millions of dollars in revenue. Adept at consultative selling, negotiating complex contracts, and tailoring solutions to meet client needs in highly competitive markets.

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This is simply an example, you can take as many liberties with this as you’d like. You can include things such as relevant company names, certifications you have, the sky is the limit. With all that said…make sure the emphasis is the value-add.

(Remember, these are keywords, that are searchable and easily identifiable)

Highlighted Accomplishments

Now this is something I enjoy seeing, in resume because is literally your “best of” if your resume.

• Led a team of 5 business development associates, providing mentorship and refining sales processes that resulted in a 20% improvement in conversion rates.

• Closed a $5M+ Hospital Construction contract with a leading healthcare provider by developing a tailored sales strategy and consultative approach.

• Expanded client portfolio by 50% within two years, successfully winning contracts with mid-market and enterprise-level real-estate construction companies.

Adding a professional summary and highlighted accomplishments at the top of your resume takes advantage of hierarchy and where the eye travels first in the resume. Afterwards you can proceed with the standard resume format where you describe each company along with the dates of employment.