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The law firm environment is competitive, and it's not unheard of for firms to weed out resumes that don't meet specific criteria. What are they looking for? Does your resume stand up against the competition, or will you be tossed aside before even being considered?
Harrison Barnes mentions that there are a few things that lawyers look for in an attorney resume, here are some:
- Consistency – Lawyers like consistencies. They want to know that you are committed to working for the long term.
- Content – Law Firms want to know that you have experience and training in their field of interest.
- Concise Formatting – Brevity can sometimes mean more when it comes down to job hiring decisions. If not appropriately formatted, resumes will get tossed out or ignored by employers if they're too wordy and complicated.
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Okay. Let's see. So university of Denver, this, I hope that helps with this resume.
Cause I there's a lot of potential here in this person. You could be an exceptional attorney without the experience you've had. You've worked in a lot of really good companies and mean, but you need to look like a lawyer, not something else. And that's the big problem. Scholarship.
Okay. Certificates, no, take those off. No one needs certificates on their resume.
No idea what this means
is that your degree? Multilingual, I mean that belongs maybe, if you want to talk about languages in another place.
Okay, great. So you've been Working as legal counsel. And then you were a summer associate with the same people. I don't know. What did you do when you graduated? You graduated may of 2020. Okay, great. Okay. So one of the things I would say here is no one should be having more information about their job as a summer associate in corporate council externship than they should have as legal counsel. So I would try to combine all this and just put, part of this in one line, they go counsel, these dates, some are associate these dates and then and then you have a lot of stability.
So obviously these people at Birdathon like you are very far so that's great. And then and then these people liked you too. And what type of training, weight training, or exercise training.
Sure understood kind of training. That means cause there's a lot of different types of training. And then you can put your language skills down there as well. This person, by the way, if you're admitted to the bar, I don't see that in anywhere. This is a good resume. The things that are good about this resume just so we're moving, can tell the person went to university of Denver, they got a scholarship for merit and leadership.
Great, nice job. They have some employment stability. So they worked from there worked as an externship in 2018, then they also were December associate and then this company also offered them a job after they graduated, which is awesome. And then it looks like they worked as an associate.
Oh, they're still working as an associate. So this may actually be a type of here. So it's as legal counsel and then November, 2020. So you can't theoretically have two jobs at the same time. So this person needs to be a little bit more careful there because they may be they may have worked from November of 2020 to January, 2021.
I don't know. But if you only work in this law firm for a month I would be very careful about what you why that's on there necessarily. I liked that you were Locklear, but why we all need a law clerk for a couple of months. Paul and Evans it's probably. Okay. I would, jobs, I don't know why they're so short.
But I would be careful, but I like that you went back to Virta phone. I don't know what happened to, for Tata law. But I would that's going to raise a lot of questions if that was a real job and you're only there for a month. So I don't, if you're, and why you're doing two jobs at the same time that there is a case to be made to sometimes, if you weren't at some place very long the, how you include that on your resume.
That's going to raise questions and just remember that liars are looking for inconsistency. So they like consistencies. They liked the fact that you worked at McColl and Jonas for all this time. Every summer it looks like, or for three years they liked the fact that you've been with Verifone for so long.
They're not going to like the fact that you're for Tata law for such a short period of time. And they're not going to like the fact that you did some other stuff for short period of time. But this is a great resume. You just need to get people on the scent that you're really good and people like you and you do a good job wherever you go.
And other than that, I think you're doing a good job with that. I just, some of these short jobs you've had I would just, everything's legal on this resume to you, by the way. So who would you, if you were an attorney, who would you hire? Would you hire this person? That's done all these things or would you hire this person?
That's only been an attorney. I would probably hire this person because they look back that none of the things I don't like about this resume or going from litigation to contract drafting and all this other stuff. That to me isn't good. Unless the person wants to do corporate, but if this person has really good corporate experience, they may, basically say they wanted to do corporate.
That could go, they could talk more about their corporate here and then do something else. Okay. And then, and maybe get a job in a law firm doing corporate, because that's a very hot market right now.
