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Description:
An example of very lengthy descriptions is what you can find in this video. Harrison Barnes strongly opposes the idea of putting a lot of details on your attorney as it is not necessary. Though, he thinks that this resume is perfect for an in-house counsel. A few things he does not like are mostly the formatting. He recommends the following:
- Eliminate Bullet points.
- Remove unnecessary lines (design).
- Shorten the descriptions for each experience.
- Use grammar-checking software like Grammarly or Pro Writing Aid to proofread the resume.
- Concentrate on your primary practice area.
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Okay. So this is a general counsel with 25 years of experience. Okay. Again, a lot of a lot of description the same thing here. I like how this person popped all this house. That's cool. Stay here.
Okay. So here when I'm going to try to do real quickly is trying to figure out what this person does specifically which would be useful.
This person is actually a general counsel. It looks like a pretty major company. You said 14,000 employees, which could be, hundreds of companies around the country. So it doesn't. And then and then pre grievance, previously a partner with, to mid law firms. Okay. So let's see here. We're going to call the public companies without in-house legal harms by outside, counsel services.
Okay. Okay. So professional summary by the way is pretty good. I you can see there's problems with it, but it's actually a pretty good professional summary. The only problem is all this information should really be accessible in the resume. It needs to be shortened up.
What I would recommend would probably be to do something along the lines of, I would take this out. These are things that that are unnecessary. I don't like all these lines. Like we talked about earlier. It's just makes it more difficult. I don't like that. I don't like career or video career overview makes it sound like that career is over.
So I would just go to experience. And then and then I would go to this person has been I don't the human resources stuff because let's see what they've done.
Okay, this person is great. This is this is a good this person is a very strong generalist and does a lot of where this is a better, this is the in-house resume by the way. So this is not probably gonna work for a law firm, but this is a very good resume for for an in-house counsel, it's an exceptional resume for an in-house counsel.
I don't know that I would and then this, in terms of the person I haven't been an associate and a partner is also good. So if it was me, I probably would take a lot for the in-house resume. I would probably try to probably to some extent about, edit this down a little bit and then I would drastically edit down the the experience at the law firm.
I would probably really just talk about what the main practice area this person did within a law firm. It looks mainly like they were a corporate associate corporate work, but then they also did employment agreements, risk management, governance, and clients.
I don't like this stuff. I like the more the transactional side. And then you can talk about your HR stuff up here. But I think you need to be very careful. W anytime you're crossing over and talking about different practice areas, that's just my law firm experience that says that because I do primarily law firm related recruiting.
And but other than that, don't like all these bullets. I do think it needs to be shortened. It really is a it needs to be proofed, using these tools, Grammarly, and pro writing aid and so forth. And if it was me, I would probably try to take all of this information, a lot of this and put it on one page and and maybe do something along these lines, ex Yeah.
And then maybe have a, another thing that's a skill, something like that. Don't know, but you saw, we saw earlier what a really good resume did with that. I also would probably I'm not so hot on this interim chief human resources officer that you did for six months or Performance. I probably wouldn't try to take that off.
I don't, it just kinda detracts from the overall message. And then and then a lot of this, I would probably try to say primarily it looks like here, you're doing corporate, so this is corporate and this is corporate. Just saying something along the lines, corporate finance attorney, Maybe a few other things.
It's
the same thing here.
And then this person talk to them, they talk about a clerkship. So I would just put down my clerkship date. What I like here with this person did is they also put a Dean's list and they said all three years. So that's much better than saying you are the Dean's list for one year, and then they talk about how they had the highest grades in these fairs classes.
I liked that too. This was a good resume I would just put down the date here, the bar I liked the, just numerous presentations regarding current legal trends and developments. That's great. Would just say something like avid presenter of current legal trends and developments and.
Yeah. Other than that, this could resume. There's nothing really, I have to say badly about it or bad about it. Yeah. For an in-house resume it's very strong for in-house resume and the reason you get that sense that because, I know that this person has been an attorney in law firms and a partner in law firms and can step into a a company and basically run it in terms of the legal department and everything that the company needs.
Think these skills, I don't think they all belong to the end. I think he can put them. In the resume somewhere, but that, that would be that, okay, let's do a couple more here.
