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Description:
This video shows what Harrison Barnes thinks about an attorney’s resume that includes information that he has a business on the side. Barnes believes that job seekers who are also running a business on the side are the riskiest hires. The following are the reason why:
- It detracts from the service that you can give to your primary employer.
- People want to feel important. If you are running a business at the same time, it makes them think otherwise.
- When you go to work someplace, your dedication, heart, body, and soul is helping that employer. But when you have your own business, these are going to take some of your time.
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Okay. Oh, this is a different one. Okay.
No, I'm sorry. There's different resume. Okay, so let's see here. Vertical mentioned sec filings. Okay, great. So this is 2001. That's awesome. That's fine. And
And again, I don't like these things that people write at the top. Again this is just these start appearing when people start getting harder to employ, that's basically the role. People can pick up all this stuff that read your resume and so you don't necessarily need it. And and I wouldn't recommend putting that.
Up there if you know you you don't need to put nine, Oh, Los Angeles, California, if you have a three, one hour Eric, but everyone's going to know that salary anyway, but you can you typically don't want to put a link to your LinkedIn profile unless you want to make sure that's perfect as well, because sometimes people will go look at your link Jim profile and they will disqualify you based on.
Not having enough contacts or who knows. There's, or that you're connected to people that don't like and all sorts of things, but you just need to be very careful about that. Okay. So Pervertical computer systems and show. This is not the real name of the place switched around. Okay, so this would probably okay. I would probably put that. I would probably let me just take all the stuff you've done here. I would probably you can leave some of this up there. I don't know that it's that bad. I don't like this. Trusted LASIK surgeons. If I was an employer and I saw this I think that's kinda disqualified from most jobs.
No one's gonna that you're running a business on the side. People want to believe, and this is something that here everyone needs to understand. It's actually very important. We'll need to believe. That, when you go to work someplace that your dedication, your heart, body, and soul and everything is with that employer and helping that employer, if you're going out and finding businesses, these are obviously going to take a time of yours during the day.
And they're obviously gonna detract from the service that you can give to your main employer. So you need to be very careful anytime you're. Starting a business, especially if you're running at the same time. And this is goes back to what I talked about earlier. Like people want to feel important and your job when you're trying to get a job is not to feel important and feel like, you've run a business and you follow stuff.
You just don't need that. You take that off and all of a sudden you've got an interesting resume here. What does this person do between I bet I missed something here. 10, 2007. Yeah. 93. They graduated. I don't know what this person was doing. Which in this period 93, unless I deleted it, but this resumes much better.
And this is your free time that you're doing anytime, by the way that I've hired someone, that's had a business on the side. I've always discovered later that they were spending the majority of the time running their business and not working for me. These are the people that are the riskiest hires that the people that will steal, I almost hired a person once that wanted to come over.
As an accountant and he had a business on the side and he got a job at another company as an accountant, and then had that other company write checks to the IRS supposedly for their taxes, but it was actually his taxes. There's all sorts of problems when employers hire people that have businesses on the side.
All these things, you don't have to say you're a first-class communicator. You let the employer learn that and this right here, when you take a look at this, as opposed to it was what was there before this person suddenly looks and if you're not going to tell people what your address is or where your house is, there's no reason to just put something like that.
Again, that's hiding the ball. Why do you want to start things off? I like that. There's nothing wrong with just saying your name and phone number. And people know you're in LA, so there's no reason, but if you're putting your if you're taking off and hiding your Address, you're basically telling I'm not going to tell you where I live.
I live in LA. Obviously you live in the LA area, a few have LA there. Anytime you're doing that, people can pick up on that and let's say maybe I don't trust this person. So this is how I would do that. I would be careful about all those bolding and stuff and underlining. I it's just distracting.
I would try to be as I don't know what I'll just fold in is here. I would just take it out. And I don't know if it's communication studies that you did but yeah, that's fine. And Dean's on our list for what the whole four years for it just, it doesn't really matter.
So that's how I would plan that. And then you have a much better resume here and you can see how we were able to shorten it and and make it just much better. And then take off all this stuff. All this stuff here is about you. And which is fine. But no one, this is just, this means you're putting this on your, that you running this company as a founder, president, our council, it was just a red, no one that knows what they're doing is going to want to hire you.
So I w you'd have put yourself in the shoes of an employer seeing this, they would be very nervous about it. So I would be very careful and but I think everything else is excellent. I I don't like that this experience doesn't seem to track with what you did at your other employers.
So I would probably take that out and I would, might. But if you've done anything related to all the securities related stuff. At this and value, I would do that. You don't need to say you only had that job for 10 months and it was 20 years ago. Would take that out and then you have this and it's just much better.
And and it shows a lot of confidence and so forth compared to what was there before. And and I look at this and say, this person is a great hire because they've been at the same employer for 19 years. I don't think. Oh, boy, they have a business. They might, who knows what's going to happen or, why are they writing all this crap?
Like what does this have to do? Cause once you've had a job for 19 years and this isn't the other thing too, I wanted to bring to everyone's attention is, one of the things that I was talking about here is. Will they do the job long-term and and that's something very important.
If someone's going to stick around that says a lot, that says a lot more because there's all sorts of problems. I'm sure this company had tons of problems and all sorts of things that went wrong. And this person stuck around and did the work and got through it while other people may not have.
This person is a strong attorney. There's just good things about. But the other problem is when you start putting things like you've had your business on the side, it's, do they want the job? And then that's a warranty or will they get the job can they be managed and all those other questions, he just don't want to bring.
Both things up really are make those issue.
