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Description:
In this video, Harrison Barnes is reviewing a resume of an attorney who listed there that he speaks three languages and has done many writings and rewards. Though that is impressive, Barnes thinks that these skills are unrelated to look like he wants to work in a law firm. There are too many details on it. Barnes advises the following:
- Do not include irrelevant information; the shorter your resume is, the better.
- They may ask about your other skills and experience later, so add only those that are related.
- Tone down the stuff you include to avoid giving an impression that the law firm cannot manage you.
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Okay. And if anybody has any questions about any of this I'm just showing you how I tend to view things and and how other people some other people do it and market too. You can see here again spacing issues all sorts of this is more of a, like a letter this person looks like they're looking for.
And in-house job. And they've worked in S and they've also worked in Germany that's fine. And that all the stuff here current past duties is probably not necessary. The best resumes, we'll come across some examples shortly, but the best resumes are typically going to be much shorter.
And this particular resume there's just a lot of issues with it. It's just, people don't want to read too much. People just want to read short amount of information and and get through it. And it's not that they don't care about all this stuff, all that stuff can come later the benefit of this person is they're there.
An attorney who's who understands things in New York and probably in Germany. And and then there, I don't know if they're admitted and I can't even tell you, see those persons admitted speak three languages. Yeah, Yeah, so this person, but this person has done a lot of stuff. And most of it is yeah.
Unrelated to looks like to work in, for example, in a law firm. And and that, let me turn off this karma. This is too much stuff. Totally. Not a lot of it's unrelated to practicing law. They got an MBA, then they they've been out of law school for a long time. They're very I've done a lot of writing and rewards and it's just way too much.
People want to see a much shorter resume many times and and leave it at that. I'm going to turn off the scrambling to make this a little bit faster, and then I'm going to make the screen bigger. Let's see here view for this. You guys just see these a little bit more easily.
Okay. But as I've shown you with a lot of these, you can see better. A lot of these resumes do have a lot of problems with spacing and that sort of thing. So this person Charles, one of thing too, I wanted to say I was just thinking about this previous resume when you're in different, sometimes when you're in different areas of the country and so forth, like five, five 74 park Avenue, I, we probably put this address on there, but that sounds like a very fancy address.
And and then you see the person that lived in all these fancy places and associate with these fancy schools and stuff. And so the big thing. Is when the law firms hiring people, they want to make sure that the person can be managed. And a lot of times it's very difficult to manage people that are coming out of very wealthy backgrounds, even attorneys.
And so a lot of times loss law firms don't necessarily want to see that they want people that are continually going to be working in that sort of thing. So you to the extent you can, sometimes you want to tone that stuff down. Okay, Charles Williams. Let's see here.
