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Description:
Here, Harrison Barnes is cleaning up an attorney's resume, which has potential but needs a slight modification. Upon reviewing, he evaluates that the person is going to be most marketable doing real estate work. These are the couple of things he did to improve this resume:
- Simplify the description.
- Emphasize one focus practice area.
- Get rid of extra information.
Transcript:
Okay. Let's see here.
This is a made up name. From jolly ergo, Woodbury and health, and in Las Vegas, Nevada. Okay. This attorney is marketable too. The reason this attorney is marketable is that they're working for a law firm doing real estate in Nevada, and there's a big need for that. So let's see what we can do to clean this up.
Don't put all these dates, just say, admitted to the States. Again, this is just extra information, a need here, zona California
okay. That and then the BS and university of, out of business finance real estate. Yeah. That's okay. Because it's relevant to all this stuff. Okay, so this is about an AB rated attorney. That's, maybe it's okay. I don't know that you need to see your AB rated, but yeah, you can do that if you want.
Okay.
So this person is basically a real estate, transactional and corporate attorney mergers and acquisitions licensing expert witness, real property tests, transactions, title insurance. Okay. And then litigation property. So I would just say something along the lines of, if it was me, I would say real estate, transactional and litigation attorney.
Attorney experience with with with corporate transactional experience,
something along those lines. And then I think there was actually some other stuff in here though. Look pretty good. Let me just go back there. Give me one second. Something along those lines is great and the person has been there 17 years. That's perfect. That's a long time. Think the stuff about being an expert witness would go and others go and other you would put something down probably at the bottom.
I liked that this person has made all this one page. That's great. I would just say I would just do this for this. I don't think you need to talk about what the firm did. I just would say, business real estate, commercial construction law, I would say real estate. My assumption would be that this person is going to be most marketable doing real estate related work.
So if it was me, I would try to emphasize real estate work. And and you can see all these kind of little errors here. Sure.
But I would try to do the best you can with that. And I like how they did short descriptions here. I think that's really good. And then the stuff about being a general counsel corporate secretary is fine for 10 years. And you can see, you can do all that in a very A short period of time.
And and then here I would just I would try to, if it was me, I would just try to look like one thing. If you're playing for real estate jobs, I would really try to emphasize all the real estate background and leave it at that. And then I would the same thing I would try to emphasize that the problem is this resume goes in a lot of different directions.
It talks about corporate and all these other practice areas. I think the thing that comes through is real estate. So if you could emphasize real estate, if that's what you want the most, and you do that, and people run into a lot of problems with the resumes. They look like they're trying to do different things and they don't have focus.
Like you can see here, like this person has focus, which is as a municipal attorney, which is really good. Then this person right here the focus is there, the real estate, but it looks like there's just too many things going on. So that kind of spokespeople. And if you can make it look like there's only one thing going on and everything else has ancillary, that's actually much more helpful if you can do it that way.
That's how I would recommend dealing with that. And then of course making sure that you're proofreading everything, but this is a good resume. I probably would try to do a transaction sheet also with this resume at the end. And I would try to really look like you're doing kind of an expert kind of in one thing, because being entitled companies the corporate holding companies these kinds of things all look like very focused on one thing.
And this is interesting. So 2003 to present. Okay. 2003.
Okay. I don't understand what's going on. Oh, and affiliated companies. I see. So you were in house for that. Okay. Now you've been doing that for 17 years. Okay. Yeah. This is a good resume. This person is very focused they know what they they want to do there. They have a lot of employment stability.
They stay everywhere. They go. It's a very good resume. I just where at me I would try to make it focus one way or direction. So if you're trying to go in house, having all these different things on there about corporate and real estate, it's fine. If you're trying to work in a law firm this person by the way, would be marketable to developers all over Las Vegas.
They'd be to maybe market, a little, probably law firms that have to work. There's just a lot of things this person could be used for.
