Transcript
In this video, Harrison Barnes reviews a resume of an attorney who earned an LLM (Master of Law) from the USA and a degree from another country. To improve the resume, he recommends the following:
- Keep your information private with simple formatting.
- Use only one color on your resume.
- Use any editing app (such as Grammarly) that can help you identify any spelling/grammatical errors in your resume so it will not prevent others from seeing how good your qualifications are.
- Formatting of resumes is important for US-based resumes.
- Proofreading before submitting is key.
- Create a resume that is relevant to US Law Firms and their hiring process.
- Focus firsthand on what they are looking for, like the relevance of experience you have to the field you hope to work in.
Transcript:
This is a resume of someone that got a LLM. In like in the United States and then and then a degree in a foreign country. One of the first things, I would say, just as a general rule and for these resumes, by the way we did take off we tried to clean them up, so we don't give away who you are and so forth to other people.
So there's some privacy here. This particular person is an LLM and hopefully would like to get a job in the United States. So one of the things is in the United States typically you don't want to use different colors on your resume. You typically want to make it just one color. People are looking for just a short amount of they don't want to have kind of all these colors that it's difficult when you're getting an outlet many times to get a job in the U S I typically, this is just for people that are our lambs.
I do recommend getting a J D if you do want to work in the U S and then most of this expense, this, these experiences here are fine. They're they're related to what you're doing research work is very heavy here. don't know you probably, and the certifications and so forth.
So for the most part this is not a a us resume. It's more of a, it's more of a foreign resume. One of the things that I always do, and I I wanna let me just see here a second here. I do need to open Grammarly. Let me see her document. So let me just save all these.
Give me one second here.
Okay.
Should work now. So I'm everybody too, by the way I would highly, you recommend especially resumes installing things like Grammarly and so forth on them. What most good attorneys will do anytime they review a resume is they're going to look for things like spacing, commas. I, you can see here they're spacing issues.
Sometimes there's you can see here where it's saying, remove the space, add article at comma. So this stuff is extremely important. If someone sees these kinds of errors in a resume, typically it makes it very difficult for them to take you seriously as an attorney, because the job of an attorney is to avoid these sort of mistakes.
And then even things like this, like honorable Delhi, high court, you can see how that's spelled and the communism and so forth. One of the problems, a lot of times people have a foreign countries when they do resumes is making sure that they're not that they're following these these formatting issues.
So I'm not gonna spend a ton of time on this because I'm a specialist in US-based resumes, but these that's one of the things that I would definitely recommend for this particular resumes, proofread internet. And and it's very difficult as an LLM to get a position in the United States, unless you have a experience that's going to be very directly something that can help us law firms our us legal employers.
And the only way to really make sure that you're doing that is to try to make your experience look like it's direct. It's going to be relevant to what a us law firm is doing.
