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This video shows that Harrison Barnes is evaluating a resume of an attorney who had been in different law firms. He likes that this one does not have a lot of information about his experience. The candidate's academics are excellent, and he appears to have a lot of employment stability. He will surely get the job as long as his resume will answer the big questions that law firms have.
- Can you do the job?
- Can you be managed?
- Do you want the job?
- Can you work long-term?
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Let's see here if they were in New York, I don't know. But okay. It was actually reading crease then. Okay, so Hans K law. Okay. So this personnel is at a small law firm. They've been in a lot of large law firms. Wow. The suits, I guess this is for real, a great resume. Let's see here. Senior counsel.
Okay. Partner then Sierra. Okay. So this person just so everyone understands. So there's a lot of stuff you can tell. Very quickly with this resume I like what this person has done with this resume, to be honest with you. I liked that their experience, you can see here that they don't really have a lot of information about their experience.
What you can, what this person did is fairly common. They. They went to the us attorney's office. It looks like right out of law school in 1982 and then or whatever, and maybe these dates are made up. And and so that's typical of people that go to Yale and stuff if they like, getting a government experience right away.
And and then and then they had a series of pretty good jobs with different law firms. They were a partner in this law firm for nine years. And then and then became senior counsel. And then and then basically, the person's probably in their sixties, maybe retired, but not really.
And then just this incredible education. I would put my dates of graduation on there. People are going to figure it out. He graduated in 1982 or whatever. Anyway. Sorry, I put that on all these things about corporate governments and and so forth here. I honestly, I don't know.
I, and the other thing too, is I don't always, I should have talked about this earlier. Pro bono stuff is okay. But the people that do pro bono typically don't have a lot of work, so you just want to be. Very careful with a lot of stuff and you can see also, I'm not trying to be rude here, but this person who, you know, five, eight, a Kappa from Harvard and Yale law school look at there's hardly any errors coming up and Grammarly compared to some of these other resumes we've looked at today where there's just all this stuff going on.
So you can see that when people make things that are shorter, a lot of times there's far fewer issues with things. One of the things I wanted anyway, I'm not gonna actually do that, but okay. So skills and expertise, recent honors representative matters activities.
Yeah, so this, I really do not have many problems with this resume. And this should be bolded up. You obviously want us to careful and maybe have a second set of office and you can see here. We're getting now we're getting into non this person's SPE spell canceling and the wrong way.
So you do want to, it doesn't need to be proved. Okay. Yeah. So let me just see here. I liked the resume. Liked the resume personally just like this that much shorter resume. And then and then I would probably put the admissions bar associations and so forth on another page of this
and like that.
Activities and and then and then New York, you don't need all that. Obviously the person is admitted in the ER August bar associations and committees. I, yeah, it's probably okay. Pro bono I don't know that this pro bono is need, need only reason you would want to put this pro bono stuff up there is if you were looking to do this sort of work.
So that would be my recommendation. Otherwise, I don't know that you would want it up there. And then I might just add this kind of as a there's a second as a page, at the end of the resume that's how I would handle that again this should be but otherwise a good resume.
I hope you can see the what's going on when I see just this part would just see admitted in the New York bar. If you just had this, for example, maybe the New York bar ministers in New York bar. Fire something simple like that. I know it's hard to see probably with all this stuff, but a much shorter resume like this is actually stronger than what we started with because it shows the ability to take a lot of information and and con consolidate it.
This person has a lot of employment stability. They were 18 years here. They were 12 years here. They've been on their own for a short time and academics are excellent. And you probably don't even need to put admitted to the New York bar. This it's presumed so a much shorter resume works and then all this other stuff you can put, you can have a representative matter sheet.
This is very good by the way. This is, this person is actually helping everyone here quite a bit. You should have this representative matters for if you're a litigator, it's always a great idea to put this on there because and you can see that they made it very general but you should always have representative matters on there to the extent you can.
That's actually very good for litigation people. So this is the person that's securities class action and so forth. And and that's great. And then these honors were fine. Most of these honors though, a lot of times employers can have asked themselves, does the fact that the person's interested in human rights help us, does this, these sorts of honors will help the firm to the extent the firm wants to do pro bono.
And this will help them to the extent they want to do a pro bono, or it will help someone outside to the extent they want to do pro bono. This person is, on this. A link to the best liars in America. That's competitive. That's great. But this is pretty much a great resume. It's just I would shorten it up and put all this stuff at the end.
And then when you see this, all you're seeing is excellent. So you're just seeing, Yale law school, Harvard law, Harvard, magnet from life. I made a Kappa, just, just pretty much all around. Awesome. And and then you get into all this stuff and you see this stuff that they've done.
The big question that law firms have is. Again, I'll go back to these, can they do the job? This person can pretty much do any type of litigation job. If you've been at really good firms like this person has it's pretty obvious that you can do pretty much anything and so that's not that important if you've had a lot of employment stability, like this person has, is pretty obvious you can be managed.
Their only concern is going to be the more you start talking about things to do with. Other things you may have done that may, they may not like that. And then will they do the job long term? You can see that. And then it will the PR do they want the job? If the person's on their own, my sense probably what happened here and I don't know, but this person probably a partner and they got older and had less business, so they've made them counsel.
And then because there wasn't as much work for the council. They started doing a lot of pro bono and so forth, and that's a pretty common trajectory for people to follow. That's how I would do that. And you can see anytime you shorten something up, you can emphasize the good and here, these are all great firms.
This is show stability, it shows all this sort of thing. So I would be careful with that.
