Transcript
In this video, Harrison Barnes is looking at a resume of a lawyer who appears to be interested in finance and investment. However, he feels like there is a lot of unnecessary information that will not add value. When people read your resume, they want to know exactly who you are, what you are doing, and what you want to be. So, to have a focused resume, he advises removing a couple of items such as:
- The courses taken
- Multiple irrelevant interests
- Unrelated experiences
Transcript:
Okay. Actually, this looks like a different resume here. Yeah.
I'm just all these, select courses. No one cares about the courses you're taking cares about all these courses. No one cares about financial advisor, this person, actually, it looks like this is something that we're interested in anything. That may be what you'd be good at us. The financial ladder here, investment group and everything to do with investment.
So I would if it was me, I would really beef up this resume and everything that's got to do with the investment stuff and try to get a lot of this stuff off of here. Cause a lot of it is just confusing. It's there's just too much going on.
I think, all these courses and everything, people need to look at your resume, know exactly what you are. So there's nothing wrong with being having a lot of interest and and everything, but you need to be very focused and even here. So this is your China and Israel and be more different.
I don't know. This is fine, the, this international coursework, but I just think that people need to know exactly what you are what you're doing and all that sort of thing. And and what you want to be. I think you want to be this person wants to be a financial analyst or a financial advisor, and then, so just make your resume, look like that, and then try to take off things to detract from that the moot court doesn't really talk about that.
That has nothing to do with with that. So try to make sure that works. Okay. Let's see here. So this person California state bar member. Okay. And then hadn't fired. Okay.
See here. So IP attorney contractor,
this is good. So here, this person was a a patent attorney for four years at a very, at a good well-respected from and then also did all this other stuff so if it was me so you graduated in 2000, I would try to take a lot of this stuff off here and push it down into something else where you would talk about talk about other experiences you may have had before law school or something.
And then and then I would try to since a lot of these jobs were in when did you graduate from it? Cool. In 2000, I would try to maybe talk about the stuff a little bit differently, and then talk about how you did this stuff right. When you graduated and then. And then and then, different types of things here.
You've worked at a couple of good patent firms and I'm again, not sure what you'd want to do, but everything should read patent. So the, what I know, or, IP, and I, don't what I don't like is you want, and I started seeing things about like construction defect and other things going on that people want to see some sort of consistency and and then being an independent contractor is fine too.
But you need to all this stuff needs to somehow be wrapped up in a way that, where it looks like you're on the track of doing what, where do you want to do? I would like this resume almost much better than if we didn't have this stuff here.
If it was just this and everything stopped in 2009 or 2009. Oh, wow. Yeah, I thought it was 2019. So this is actually, no, you were at this job for a long time. So I think this person can get a job in another really good in-house job. I would also recommend, looking in other parts of the country as opposed to just, I'm assuming you're just looking at San Francisco and it's, by the way for patent attorneys and people with those kinds of backgrounds it's very common to to have periods of unemployment and and that, and be an independent contractor and so forth.
As a matter of fact, almost every patent attorney does it at some point. So it's a little bit different for those of you that are familiar with it in that practice here than in other practice areas. So I liked this restaurant. I don't have much problem with it, but I do think you need to apply to a lot more places.
And I think you may I think you can definitely get a job working in a law firm. Again, if you want, if to apply to enough places or another company, if you apply to smaller companies or other size companies you should be able to get something. The problem with San Francisco too, by the way, is, there's just a lot of, it's very difficult when you get older, you get a position.
There was a lot of age discrimination. So I was just more of a markup.
