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Description:
Harrison Barnes finds that the best resumes are typically shorter because they have to be concise and direct to the point. It will help if you do not overwhelm employers with details about skills or experience. They should know what your main strengths are at a glance so that you can stand out from all of the other applicants. He advises to keep in mind the following:
- Keep the font colors neutral.
- Shorten the details. One or two-line descriptions will suffice.
- Bullet points can help show a straightforward narrative.
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Okay, so let's look at another one here. This is another resume. So this is something that has been again is a very well formatted, a good looking resume. Now this person , has, these are nice colors and things like that. But at the same time there's There's a lot of stuff going on there. The colors take away to some extent from the message and and that, that is a problem. This probably is a PDF by the way, that's been converted. So that's why it looks a little weird. And, but I don't like all of these colors because I just don't think in this format and so forth.
So let's take a look at this person. Okay. So all of this stuff here that they're saying at the top where they're talking about developed deep expertise and litigation insurance matters like that type of stuff is presumed by what their description of everything that they've done.
In the resume. All of this stuff isn't really out all the, again, the stuff at the beginning isn't really necessary. Unless again, the tort law, property damage, this, anybody that's hires, this person is going to be an attorney. So they're not, they're going to understand.
What this person does right away. They're not going to need to see all that. So all that stuff can go then then experience, you can see they didn't write legal experience or what experience which is good. Then you have this person's a managing attorney. I oversee the day-to-day operations of solidification division. Then here again, they say they oversee the litigation department of attorneys and paralegals Okay. So I like this actually these bullet points are fairly interesting. And I'll tell you why because it's basically saying that this person can come in and manage things and they do training and so forth. And then they're doing operations and they understand operations. And then they spoke litigation.
Yeah, no Okay. Yeah, and again, I don't think you need to put in stuff like excellent verbal communication skills
department and
trial. So you just, everything needs to be shortened. Went to trial and then in Trial everything needs to be shortened just to make it easier, not for people and to look at. And I liked this resume. This is this person is is has very good skills and but everything, again needs to be shortened.
And person has very good skills and this is a good. Good attorney. But at the same time they have a lot of management experience, so they can come into a company or an insurance company and and manage things very well. The only thing I would recommend would be. Maybe a lot of this stuff could probably be put could be taken down.
Anytime someone says like 46% and stuff those kind of numbers are always suspect forgetting to add hyphens and so forth. And and having all these errors is not helpful. I would try to make this much shorter. I don't know that, if you went to law school in 1988, that you need to put anything in about McCourt and I don't know you don't need to put this in and you need to say, or it's mission, minute to near, everyone knows you're admitted to New York, but you could just say New York, 1998 and I don't know what CLM is, but it could be correct. Yeah, but people are gonna assume all that stuff and then education, so you can see here and then just And then again, this is someone that didn't put in the date since this person graduated probably in 2000 or no.
Oh, they didn't put in the date 1998, but they didn't put in their college graduation date. I would just put in your college graduation, even if you get a bunch of stuff before college, and then you can see here suddenly this is one page. It could be even shorter. If you took out some of this stuff and then you could put a a transaction sheet that kind of shows all of your.
Trials and so forth. I do want you to see something that I do want to highlight something for everyone here real quickly. And I just want to show you the difference between how this stuff is being thought through. Earlier we looked at who is this person that was really a good resume.
