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In this video, Harrison Barnes is discussing an example of a good resume. There are minimal issues in this resume; placing your volunteer jobs in the middle is unnecessary. He suggests that you should also include the locations of organizations you have worked for on the resume. An employer loves to read a resume that is easy for them to figure out who you are. The following are the things that make a good resume:
- Shows employment stability
- Specific to what direction you want to pursue
- Emphasizes legal-related experience
- Shows excellent class ranking
- Cleaned-up resume with perfect grammar and formatting
- All information included adds value to the resume
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Another one, this person.
Okay, so this is let's see here is a oh, I'm golden KL. I'm Stetson university of London with her son, a lot of master of arts, Harvard BA from Harvard or from Howard. Okay. So this particular resume this is a it's a it's an older attorney and there's some issues here, but I don't people put on the thing, the idea that they're able to use, Westlaw, things like that are just assumed the I like this thing, some things I like about this resume is I like the employment stability here.
I like that. I like
if I'm not, I don't necessarily like having volunteer jobs in the middle of the. A resume. And these are just the ideas when you're working in a place you want to pretty much have a lot of stability doing that. You also need to make sure you have the addresses and are the, the locations where you're working.
And I, again, I don't know I guess this internship that's in the spine
Yeah, so this isn't, this is a us resume with an adult alum. I don't know if that even qualifies you to work in a law firm, but this person doesn't have the bar, so I'm not going to spend too much time on this resume. But I would emphasize that anything that you've done that's legal related.
Okay. This person, this is a real legal resume. This person's worked from Drake university school of law,
plus Frank top 25% Drake law review. Okay.
Okay. Let's talk about class rank. So with class rank it's useful to put on your resume but you were Jewish ranked with high honors. So high honors been implied better than top 25%. So I would just take that off. And then I would say that you're on the track law review. And I wouldn't even call yourself the online editor.
I would just say editors fine, but if it's online editor, that's fine. And that looks better. Top 25% is okay. It's very good actually, and you should be proud of it, but it's, Drake is not like a top 20 law school or anything. It's not a, so just saying you graduated with high honors and it's enough, it looks better than 24.
You were obviously very good student there. Okay. Let's see. Now you graduated in 2019, and then in 2019, you were a summer associate at this firm. Great. If you received an offer you always want to say that if you received an offer from the firm you worked at in the summer, if you didn't receive an offer, that's perfectly fine.
I liked this resume. I like. That you went and did a clerkship. And then I also liked that now you're doing Medicare related work. So this is a very good resume actually. And the person that's done this resume has done a good job it's is and I apologize our next resume review meeting, we will make sure that these PDFs are done better.
And actually if Michael's listening maybe he can send me the PDF since we have to take the names office and problem. So I guess we do put them in this. But yeah, so I like that this is a good resume. So I liked the the the military stuff. I think this is fine. I don't know.
Yeah, this is I th I, and I'm actually fine with this description here and I'm fine with this. I'm fine with the clerkship I don't know. You need to say during the COVID ethic
so just think about, how necessary all of this stuff is. Most Glock Clark's, like I sent you the same stuff. And then Yeah, but this is a good recipe, especially if you under anything related to Medicare operations and so forth. This is perfectly fine. If you were trying to do just general commercial litigation or something that you would probably want to talk more about not use words like Medicare and stuff in the resume, but this is a good resume.
There's no, this resume will, so whoever's resume. This says we'll get a job. Everything's being done, and you can compare it to some of these other resumes we've seen, which, I actually commend anyone that's sent their resume in because a lot of these resumes do have issues. And so you can see the difference between some of the ones we've looked at so far and this particular resume just in terms of the focus.
And I can look at this resume and say, this person can do Medicare work. They've got a lot of history of having good jobs. They've done litigation, they can do Medicare litigation and they would get a job. And wow, look at this. And they're also how about this leadership experience from the Navy?
And then they are the, that was the Navy and have good things going on. And then same thing with this person. And you can look at this resume after this is cleaned up and say, wow, this could be a great employment attorney, but that what everyone here is doing. And I hope you guys can see the w what's going on is most people in their resumes are putting things on the resume that detracts from the main message of what they do.
