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The best resumes use plain words instead of complex sentences with too many challenging vocabulary words for most people to understand easily. Your job title should be clear, so all potential employers know what kind of work you do without having a degree focused on hiring attorneys. Harrison Barnes suggests that using plain language helps you, and here are the reasons why:
- Use simple language to avoid confusing the reader and risk missing out on a job offer.
- Say things directly, so everyone knows exactly what happened without having any extra work done.
- Using complex words on a formal document such as a resume is confusing and makes the applicant seem less capable and qualified for the position they are applying for.
- You should also use shorter sentences and avoid splitting your thoughts into multiple paragraphs.
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This one barred mission attend to sit for the July 21 bar examining. That's in New York log examination, multi-state prevention sensibility. Okay. Most people pass it professional multiple responsibilities. You don't need to put that up there.
And you don't need to put that you're sitting for the bar. If you're trying to get a job in New York, it's actually just assumed that you'll be setting, especially as a 2021. Some of the stuff like tax law society, I just recommend if your resume isn't really strong with, senior, the editor and chief of something, and you're doing something that really takes a lot of time.
There's no need to put on things like act law society and stuff, unless, you're very interested in tax for some reason this legal intern. So I don't know. It's so there's different There's different schools of thought about the ways to I'm just a lot of times, and I apologize, what's happening with some of this stuff is we're editing these resumes sorta for you before you see them or we're copying from PDF.
So there are coming out and they're a little bit they can be a little bit it could need some work. In terms of when we transfer them from PDFs to document irregular documents of legal in terms work for three months. Okay. So you were in illegal intern for three months.
Okay. I don't know that you oversaw and reviewed things. And I, I just don't know. I would maybe just give a little description of the company and the type of work that they do. Just say general legal work, because this kind of is, people want to know you're giving people, like when people look at your resume, what happens is they start thinking in terms of this person doesn't have this experience.
So just talking about that, this is a. Whatever type of company, a couple of lines about, system of legal work with this type of company, that's all you need to say. That's all I would do because when you start saying purchase and sale of future receivables, manage broker relationships, like they don't, no, one's going to give someone who's in law school, the position of managing broker relationship, advising and underwriting, Nevada evaluated, overseeing purchase and sales over, they're not going to give them that experience.
So this language is very strong and for the work you're doing, and I don't say that in a negative way, it's just it's just very strong. What I would recommend doing, but just be to maybe lighten that up a little bit and then and just put what the company does and then same thing here.
Like you start talking about lean law, foreclosure business represented in collections. I'm assuming, because you did the tax law society and you have an accounting background that you're also interested in maybe doing. Tax or something along those lines, when you start putting things about litigation, trust, and estates and all these other practice areas on there that, that can also scare people away.
And I don't say that in a negative way, but I would just say got exposure to litigation trust in the states and corporate related work, or, or got, was exposed to court even, don't just say something along those lines. And so you don't need to go into a lot of detail because you don't want to point people in a direction.
Everyone's happy to take a chance on a law student. They don't care what your experience has really. They're not there. You do, but they're not really that interested in it. They're just interested. If you're, you seem excited, you're willing to work for a price that they're happy about and and they like it.
And that's it. And then I don't you say, like I partook in a court proceeding that's nice. You want, I was resumes. You need to use plain language, like how people talk. You wouldn't want to say partook in a law, a court proceeding. You just want to say, and even attended court proceedings, probably all these descriptions of what you're doing I would recommend everyone.
The problem is what's happening without. This is these people at the people that are reviewing your resume are being pointed in all these different directions. So here they're being pointed in directions of working in brokers, and they're very implanted in trust in the states and litigation and deposition residential, financial report, all that recruited and trained.
Okay. I guess you did. So I would just say wholesale manager, so just don't go into a lot of detail. There's nothing wrong by the way, for, especially for law students not going into a lot of detail. People need to look at your resume and they need to get thing.
People need us, people need to be people need to be on the center of, okay.
So they want to basically they want to read, they want to read your resume and say, I get it.
This person wants to do this.
That's how you need to do it. So here, the problem with this particular law student resident resume make sure you always fix
The problem with this is that it doesn't read, like you want to do one thing. It reads there's just a bunch of stuff going on. So that's the problem there. So people want to see one thing and that's the problem of all these resumes. To some extent that we've been looking at this person was an IP attorney and they became a in-house counsel where there's nothing really on here about IP.
And then they're trying to say that they have experience with executive advising and growing companies and all this stuff and litigation, and here's some patent infringement. I would put this at the top, anything to do with IP and then emphasis to emphasize the other stuff. And then this person saying I do intellectual property business, real estate.
So all of these resumes from the standpoint of most employers are going to be difficult for an employer to grab onto. If this person had done nothing if this person wants to be in real estate, then you know, they might talk about real estate here and try to talk about real estate here and talk about, some real estate work.
For the young man and young woman's Hebrew association and then the Lazarus and Lazarus talk. But do you want the, you typically want to have some sort of pattern and consistency in that resume because again every law firm wants to know if you'll do the job long-term so if they do see a long-term interest in something that you have they're going to like that.
