Obviously, but that's not why this section is included. The resume is not for YOU; you aren't providing this information to yourself. You are trying to influence someone reading your resume. Think about what your objective means to your prospective employer.
The objective should specify what you intend to do within your desired position, and how. It should be stated in a way that communicates how your ambition will benefit the employer, and how your specific objectives are better than all the other objectives they will be reading.
umm. No. There is no one in recruiting, HR, or management gurus that recommend objectives. The space that was often filled by objections is now recommended to be a skills summary or other short, eye catching one liner about how awesome you are.
Ditto. I get requests from friends to look over their resume all the time. Then I tell them to take of objectives and what to put there and I send it back to them. When it comes back to me for review it is back there...like they don't believe it or something.. Objectives died people! Trust those who are telling you so!