Is there any value in summary bullet points for automated resume systems that screen resumes?

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"Is there any value in summary bullet points for automated resume systems that screen resumes?"

That's a good question. In my opinion, most resumes that, that come in to, whether it's legal in-house, or they come in to a law firm, are gonna be actually looked at by people. The law's way too complex to use those type of screeners. They have to personally review every resume that comes in and even though we have machines that parse resumes and do all sorts of things, I actually, to this day, personally review every resume that comes in to BCG. And the reason is because there's so much to them to understand, and so much depth to each resume and person.

The bullet points don't really do that. Sometimes you can put key words in your descriptions. So an example would be if you're a patent attorney that has experience doing fiber optic-related patents, you should point something in about fiber optic-related patents. If you're a securities attorney that has experience doing securities for Chinese tech startups and issuing securities in the US, you should have something that discusses that because people are gonna look for something like that. But those bullet points that are real general and so forth don't necessarily, you don't really need those. I don't think that they help you.