Transcript
Description:
Harrison Barnes is reviewing a foreign attorney's resume in this video. He notices that every foreign resume almost has the same formatting and composition. He has a few recommendations to improve your resume and helps you to land an interview.
- Avoid putting too much information.
- Keep the descriptions/details as short as possible.
- Make the format clean and easy to understand.
- Proofread your resume by running it with grammar-checking software.
Transcript:
Every foreign resume we see tends to have a lot of information in it. No one cares if you've got these kind of if you take we'll actually executive MBA's from big deal and an LLM is a big deal, but I've certainly got degrees from, all sorts of Ivy league schools and taking business classes there, but that doesn't mean, our executive education classes.
Th that's the last thing in the world I would put on my resume. I think I even have a degree from UCLA that I spent a year getting a it's something business related, but I would never put it on my resume. And so you don't you typically and I don't say that to, to output Harvard business school and these programs, I might've cost you a hundred thousand dollars ticket, I don't know.
But you just, pretty much, you don't want that people are hiring attorneys, they're hiring attorneys, they're not hiring people that get the certifications from the schools. It's one thing to get a certification to another, to practice it. So I would take a lot of that this resident there's too much going on in this resume for me to pass go older but this resume you need to take a look at the American resumes we've looked at so far especially with the first one and.
And really do what you can, but no, this is going to be very difficult to get a job. Actually it looks like you did go to Harvard business school. I can't even tell from this resume. But but it's very, this needs to every resume needs to be very clean because I can't, I'm, I look at resumes for a living and I look at this thing and I can't tell what the hell's going on.
And it has nothing to do with, that this is a bad resume. It's just not the way Americans do resume. And so you don't need to talk about all this, I don't want to go into too much detail, but I hope everyone can understand problems with this as a U resume.
There's just too much going on. So you have to look at what a us resident, they're doing all these videos here. Look at this languages. Wow.
The videos and stuff that I've done of resumes before I would, I would go through and look at them. And I don't know what this one is either farm recipe.
So this is the 2 20 20 graduate and the 2000, I like what this person has done with their education. I think this is very. I don't think you want to say you're in the top two thirds of your class. I don't think the top two thirds means you were in the bottom third or someone was, I dunno, it doesn't sound very good.
It sounds like senior in the top 95%. So I wouldn't take that off. Postgraduate diploma, project planning top two thirds, top one third. Okay. So that means you're in the bottom third. Okay. I don't know what's going on there, but if, unless you're Inc you're you're people don't understand what these top third. Okay. That's pretty good, but generally, I don't know that it's a good idea to list your class ranking, especially for Al lambs and all that kind of stuff. And us law firms aren't gonna know and employers what a GPA means from a school in Uganda. So fact finding would be, you have a, so everyone needs to run their stuff through the software because the second you make a mistake in this stuff, It's disqualifying you guys from lots of jobs and and so you just need to be very careful with all of this,
either on behalf.
So go through and you're gonna have to clean up your language. So this would say working
Robert House
anyway, so go through, I would have somebody
correct somebody to go through your resume and really fix up the English here because there are some mistakes and and then and then and then most of the time. People aren't going to be, I would just say employment associates, you don't people, this experience you've had in Uganda is not necessarily going to be applicable to what you're doing here.
And so all this stuff to about having strong motivation and stuff, but your record will show that not necessarily this. And I would think anyone that moves to the United States, these activities playing second place, coffee tasting, and cupping. Okay. That's cool. Best taste turn now your no, that's cool. What's interesting. Playing chess. That's awesome. So the best female chess player in your law school, I don't know. You can say you liked chess. And then this is not how U S people write their resumes.
So just, I would actually go talk to your law school and get some input from them. And really and and I've given you input but these resumes, anything that's exotic and different, and certainly anyone that goes to school overseas is exotic and different. You just need to have it have a kind of update and in terms of having a more American field and then unless it's definitely going to be more because the more you say the more risk you put of having information that, that looks out of it Alexis nexus, everyone in these are actually one word.
I think Westlaw and Lexus nexus is also one word. So everything that you're writing down if you get any, if you get one mistake wrong that can hurt you. If you make one type of that can hurt you. And I wanted to tell everyone a quick story. I told that in our meeting, we had for our recruiters yesterday, but I was.