Transcript
In this video, the resume appears to have been written by someone else. Harrison Barnes observes some of the common problems with these kinds of resumes. These are the following:
- A noticeable word used is “Distinguished Attorney.” You let other people describe you as distinguished, not you. This kind of writing is one sign that someone else made the resume.
- He advises removing the Executive Summary part. Though it emphasizes what you are good at, often people will think you are only complacent on the things you claimed to be an expert with.
- Exclude the Dean’s List and Moot Court participation.
- Barnes thinks that this person probably will not have much of a problem getting a job; the question is what kind of employer they want to work with.
- This person appears to have transferred from one university to another; Barnes suggests putting a date.
- Way too much information. This resume seems to be going in a lot of different directions.
- He recommends doing your best to make it look like a focused resume in one practice area.
Transcript:
This even an attorney.
Okay. Distinguished attorney or district attorney and CPA. Okay. So you let other people call you distinguished. A lot of times when you see stuff like this is a sign that someone else has written. The the resume this person says they're a senior counsel upon community, which is a great law firm in Detroit, and then these great accounting firms.
But I would take all this out. Anytime you say you're some sort of expert and stuff it just, people like where you think you're an expert, let me show you. And then it's just, you have to and then there's a lot of things here that are. Necessarily don't w th that they're just different practice areas.
We've got real estate, then you've got risk mitigation, regulatory compliance, employment law that could just corporate law litigation. So these are pretty much every practice here. And you can't be, with this many practice areas, it's very difficult to be. So this is something where it looks like an outside resume company might help with that to some extent.
So this is great. I love this from this person is doing a lot of stuff or they're a corporate attorney, which is awesome. And and they were, it looks like they were corporate and real estate attorney here at Punka Cooney while they were at the same firm. Oh, no, they see, they were at Plunkett Cooney doing this stuff, and then they yeah, so this is a great and Sterling bank, which is an awesome bank.
Yeah, price fine. This is a strong attorney, so there's, I really don't have any problems with this resume. I think it's a very good resume. And what's nice about this. As you can see here that the person was associated or something that this firm, and then they came back and were made a partner after being at another firm.
And then then they were working at a big company where they had a lot of stability and were doing great things, and this person probably is not going to have much problem getting a job. The question is whether, what kind of employer they want to work with, if they want to work in a law firm this is a good resume.
I don't know really what to say about it. They look like they may have transferred from Michigan state to Madonna university which is they should just put a date for that. But and then take out the stuff about piano teams, lessons and stuff, great school, Detroit.
I think I'm going to an existing where I merged or something, but and a lot of the stuff too, there's just a way too much information here. Trademark filings and this kind of stuff, no one needs to see all that. It's just, you just need to and I don't know why this is so confidential, but that's fine.
Put that on there, unless for some reason not to and then all this stuff is good. So I, the only thing I would recommend is the resume seems to be going in a bunch of different directions. It seems to me like real estate resume that at one point, it also seems to be a a corporate resume.
And you want to make sure that whatever you do or you can you do your best to make it look like a very focused resume and one practice area. And that's how I would handle that. So some of the stuff like you don't need to say, you're admitted to the American bar association you don't need to say you're a move for a judge or in your law school.
You don't need to say yeah, that's good immune show. I don't know when, robotics thing is good speaker. So I, some of this stuff is probably not that necessary, but everything here is very strong, so there's no reason to really flip it up that much. You frankly also don't look actually, no, I don't know how long your reset Sterling trust.
But try to be focused. I, if it was me, I would try to go more in the towards being, again, you talk about trademark registrations and stuff again. I would really try to be more focused in terms of your practice areas like real estate or corporate or something, as opposed to doing all these different things that have litigation.
And maybe you do want to do all these things and just be like a very involved, very experienced all around in house attorney, which it looks like you are or law firm attorney to go. But I think you're going to be better off if it looks more focused, it's just my opinion.
It's a nice resume.