Your resume is essentially a sales tool that you use to sell your skills
. To really get your point across why not use punchy one liners read on to see what awesome one liners you can use!
A punchy one liner does three things:
It catches the attention of the recruiter
It displays excellent communication skills
It forms a talking point
Here's a list of killer one-liners you can use on your next resume.
One-liners about your ability
On your resume you want to communicate how good you are as quickly as you can. Ideally you want the recruiter so stunned they have no choice but to call you. You need to convince them you're worth the time it takes to read more of your resume. Here are a few one liners I've used to get my ability across quickly:
Project manager with PMP and Prince2 certifications
Keynote speaker at project manager forums
Managed over $30M in combined project budgets
Project benefits one-liners
Remember that the projects you run not only benefit project stakeholders but ultimately benefit the company you work for too.
As a project manager when you run a project you're actually achieving two goals, the goal of the project and the goal company. You always want to make sure that you present this in your project manager resume.
If you can show the double benefits in a snappy one-liner, you're letting recruiters know you're a well rounded project manager:
Here's some more:
Successfully delivered a $3M project increasing the production of CompanyX to 200 units per months
Increased the profit of CompanyX by 20% by successfully completing ProjectX on time and on budget
Saved CompanyX 2m through project initiatives such as lessons learnt and project collateral reuse