what do you include in a professional profile on a resume?

Answer 1

I've heard the term professional profile, but if you have a college degree, and background in a given field, listed in a traditional resume format, that IS a professional profile.

Answer 2

Include key skills, experience, specialized knowledge, top accomplishments, and other things that describe you as a professional.

For more ideas, try doing a search on your target position + "resume" + "professional profile" and you'll find resumes with professional profiles specific to your field, so that you can see how others present themselves. Then you can incorporate the best of what you find into your own resume.

Make it (and the rest of your resume, for that matter) keyword-rich with the words that hiring managers and recruiters would be looking for. This will help your resume come up higher in search results. Look for job descriptions for your target position and include keywords that appear most often and those that appear towards the top of job descriptions.

To your success,

David B. Wright
Author, Get A Job! Your Guide to Making Successful Career Moves
http://www.TheGetAJobBook.com

Answer 3

I find that having a separate "Key Accomplishment" section really stands out. For example:

WORK HISTORY:

Executive Assistant to the Vice President
Company
May 2004-August 2006

Primary Responsibilities:
•Calendar updating/tracking, business correspondence/memos, expense reporting/tracking, domestic/international travel reservations and general assistance for all Executive staff.
•Etc Etc

Key Accomplishments:
•Created an educational Power Point presentation which showed the companies creative process.