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Description:
In this video, Harrison Barnes assesses an attorney's resume that he thinks is a good resume. However, he has a few recommendations to enhance the resume to make it appealing to employers. The list below would help.
- Take off your grade point information unless it is awesome.
- Remove courses taken, activities attended, and moot court participated.
- Show your employment stability
- Eliminate too much information. A maximum of 1-2 lines on what you do are enough.
- Be careful of what you are emphasizing; it might mislead the reader.
- It is okay to be on time-off. You do not have to fill in the gap. You can include the details in the cover letter.
- A summary is not necessary. The information you put there is covered in the experience section.
- An ideal resume should only be on one page.
- No reason to put the student organizations participated.
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So the next resume marker, Kent university, school of law, you cannot put Juris, doctorate. Okay. So you guys need to take off your grade point, unless it's awesome.
For a lot of people, like I remember when I was graduating from high school, like there was a guy that, barely graduated and he was so excited when he got his diploma. He walked up and was crying and, meanwhile other people were just, upset that they were like, still on the wait list, university of Michigan or whatever.
It's, so it's just, you have to. You have to pick your battles, but if you didn't do really super well in law school, then just don't put anything on it. No one cares about your courses. So you take all that off again. Here's someone painting themselves into a corner. You want to call yourself conservative.
That's fine, but you have to realize that there's going to be consequences. Now, there may not be consequences in Milwaukee. I don't know, actually it was Milwaukee. I don't know, but you have to be careful with all this participating in with courts, probably not that big of a deal. And then recruiting being a member of the Hispanic law students association you're welcome to put that on there.
But I don't know, most of the stuff I don't know, and attended lectures on the section two 30 of the digital age that's, these are not things that for the most part are going to help you. So just it's honestly enough to say you went to law school. Hey, sometimes people don't realize that because when you're putting all this other stuff on here, you're just, if you're all you have in the end is, I don't know that recruiting members have you part of the Hispanic costumes association.
That is a leadership activity but you can see how this person handled it here. They put all this stuff at the bottom and they didn't make a big deal and they wouldn't talk about it. They would say they were, I don't know, but I'm just, I don't know. It seems all seem very important right now because you're doing it right now.
But honestly, what I think is the most impressive thing about this resume is that you're also going to get an MBA for God's sake. I'm just awesome. So you're getting that in addition to your law degree, much more impressive than being a member of the moot court. Varsity baseball team catcher, wow.
Team captain four year. That's amazing. So these are all like, like why not draw attention to the things that are the most amazing about you and then not, and not other things. I think you're, if I read this, I would say this guy's leadership as he did he was in charge of recruitment for this law students association.
That's great. I don't know. If that's, if your real leadership is being the catcher of their law firm, team captain and all this stuff is great. In the legal intern, the intern, I would try to make these one line each of these one line and same thing here.
And I dunno, being the, volunteer for visa or something, that's really that. And then you're fluent in Spanish. Great. That's just showing if you're trying to show diversity, then that shows her right there. So this is a good resume. I I like it and and you're still working at that firm, so that's good too.
You've been there a long time. I don't understand how you're working. Are you graduating in 2021, but you're working for a firm from Miami, I guess you could do it with zoom, but this is a good resume. I like it. I don't think it needs a lot of work. I think you need to, again, be careful about what you're emphasizing.
I don't think, being a member of the, any student associated the, the federal society is going to turn some people off, but it's nothing to be that concerned about. Okay.
