Description:
Most people think that the perfect resume should have every detail about their qualifications. In truth, hiring managers only care for information relevant to your skills and experience as it relates to the job you're applying for. In this video, Harrison Barnes advises not to include some information as it is not needed. Here are some:
1. Grades – while this is important for you, hiring managers do not require this information in your resume.
2. Irrelevant Experience – Your resume should focus on one practice area and avoid drawing attention to other things not related.
3. Memberships/Certificates – are not essential information, but you can provide the information when asked in your interview.
Transcript:
Definitely an appliable Respimat resume. This person started out in 2012 and law firms and. And they worked then they'd been working. Okay. So this is a fairly common type of resume for whatever reason this attorney it's there's a lot of good things about it, but the thing is that you have to always ask yourself is, can you do the job long-term can you be managed?
Do you want the job? For whatever reason when this person graduate in 2009 they, their first job was as a law clerk for the, what, the looks like the state court. And then they went to work in government, another government office, and then they did one associates or a little over a year.
And then they did another job for four years, which was good and other, and then they went to another law firm for four or five months and then another law firm for four months. And then another law firm for
two months, and then another law firm for. Oh contract. Okay. And then now they've been at this, then it went to another level. My, my sense is this person doesn't like law firms, which they are part of the club of a lot of people that don't, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. The problem is that I see here though, is this person really?
And again, be careful with this spacing and stuff you can see here. There's my program's picking up the spacing issues. So always be careful with all that. And and make sure you do this. I think in terms of loose resume the problem is with all these jobs, someone's not probably going to not want to, is going to have a a difficult time hiring you, because they're not going to know, they're not going to know if you want to stick around.
And and I don't know why you don't like sticking around. It's not, it may just be the atmosphere or the kind of people you're working with. And certainly you wouldn't be the first person not to like law firms or do well there or feel happy. And that's perfectly fine. What I would recommend is I would recommend in your it seems to me like you actually enjoy government jobs, the most are working in your attorney's offices and so forth, or for judges.
And and it seems like you've had very good experience doing that and you've lasted a long time. I would just say would recommend creating something very similar to what this person did, which is just really a great example for us all where they talk about their law firm experience.
And I would just say, between these dates, I worked in several law firms where I got experience and then try to lead with the main type of experience where you, if you worked in insurance coverage or workers' compensation, just talk about the different types of experiences that you had in those law firms.
And and maybe try to come up with something consistent maybe it's litigation and then and then. I would just put it off from experienced government experience and then and then maybe entering your most recent employer or something, and you weren't even really there very long. So I would do that.
And then I, people need to stop doing this stuff, like putting in pro bono certificate. I don't know what the client counseling competition is. I wouldn't list that. I don't know that it's a good idea to always list, to study abroad stuff on it's. It's fun stuff and these create great memories but they're also assign that typically that your parents were willing to pay a lot of money or someone wants to do that for you.
And but other than that, I'm sure, yeah, editor-in-chief looks great, all this other stuff. And then if you're applying for jobs in Virginia always, you can list Virginia. If you're applying for jobs in Virginia, there do not list Colorado. So a lot of people think that law firms and stuff would be interested in that, but it actually hurts you because it shows that you tend to be interested in different types of things.
Yeah. Been working in, and I don't know where you are right now. Oh, this is in Colorado. Okay. So if you're going to stay in Colorado then then list by all means let's Colorado, but if you're applying for jobs in Virginia I don't know that I would, put on Colorado and people can always check.
But and then I like this, all this stuff here, by the way you were on the environmental commission and all this stuff. It just seems like you're very interested in government related work. So that's what I would do. And then I'll be suppositions. I would do what I can to to limit them to some extent to make sure that that'd be, we don't have to look.
It doesn't look like you've had so many jobs because it's just it's going to make it's makes it too risky for people to hire you
and your licenses most of the time, if you've been an associate and a law firm, they know you're they know you are admitted there. So a lot of times there's no reason really to put that on there, but you fuel want. Okay. So let's see. Okay, so this is great information here for a cover letter right here. But that's really the only place that you need it. So I would put it In your cover letter. And so this is I'll hear one of the things I just wanted to show you, I'm just noticing some things right here.
You need to you, when you're writing these paragraphs and so forth, everyone needs to make sure that that I just noticed here, like business related this need to fix
all this stuff, however, and that stuff. And so people, when people are hiring you, it's probably going to actually come this place you. Yeah. When people are hiring you, they're more into they're most interested in and whether or not you can do the job. So there's nothing w regardless of where you go to school you don't want to, draw attention.
You can just put down, that it doesn't have to be, you don't have to say it was APA credit on that date, that the problem with all this stuff is that that, most. Lawyers get a lot of people applying for jobs. So you just have to be very careful you don't want to draw attention to negatives.
And so I don't know the history of Thomas Jefferson law school. It was accredited. It wasn't accredited. In California, for those of you that aren't from here, you have law schools that are accredited, which means, I guess you can practice anywhere in the country. And then there's ones that aren't accredited and and some of them lose their accreditation, they, and they get it back.
And I, I don't even know. And this, there's rules here about spelling things out, but I don't even know what that means, but I do know that means that maybe it wasn't a credit out at some point. So I wouldn't try, I wouldn't draw attention to that. I would just say Juris, doctorate, whatever that date is.
And and then and then I met a lot of this stuff, just, you can just say bachelor of arts in English literature. But it doesn't. Yeah. And you want as few lines as possible on your resume, you stuff as possible. People don't care about your high grades. I don't even know what a 4 0 4 1 4 3 means.
So just leave that stuff off. Don't draw attention to the pack that the firm is a school may have been accredited and not accredited. You don't need to put your grades on your resume. And then and you don't need you putting all these direct dates like July 29th, August 19. You can just say August.
And then, to December like you did here, you didn't say the exact December date. No one, then you can say something about family law.
No one cares about your work at LaQuinta or as a hairstylist. As a matter of fact, I wouldn't put hairstylists on there at all. Even though you did it for a long time I think I just, the problem is even though it's good that you've had all this exposure to the public and so forth there's no reason to you know
Anything else. So I like this resume. I think that you should definitely be able to get a position and and especially in family law. And that would be what I would do. So I would make this whole resume deal of family law. I would remove all this stuff at the top and then there's punctuation errors.
I would run it through software and I would make sure everything points to family law. And the big thing that I would say about this particular resume, like this resume it's probably th the education's better to experience is better, but this person's done a lot of different things here.
And then this person if you clean this up, you can make your resume look like, cause you said similar to my previous position. So I'm assuming you were doing family law related things. And I just would say Okay. Family law, Clark, that's it.
And then and that's it. So making yourself just look like a family law attorney is going to help you. Okay. This is a foreign resume. I don't want to spend a lot of time on foreign resumes. I did last week I talked a lot about them but again, everyone needs to go through and proofread these things and run them through grammar, checking software.
