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Description:
In this video, Harrison Barnes reviews an attorney's resume, which he thinks is sound and employable. His feedback is to use one to two bullet points to describe your experience to make it brief. Here are the benefits of using bullet points on your resume.
- Bullet points can significantly help your attorney's resume. This is because they are concise and allow the reader to understand what you have done quickly.
- They also make it easy for employers to quickly find qualifications that interest them without having read through every word in the document, which saves time.
- Bullet points can make your resume more attractive to potential employers. They offer a way for you to summarize better and display the skills that qualify you best for the position being sought.
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The next one, legal counsel consultant providing leadership. Okay.
Again, these kinds of things I think, belong off. Okay. So a couple of things like, so sometimes people take time off and there's really nothing wrong with that. Now here you were an attorney for 11 years, which is a long time. And and and then it looks like that you move with a Wiener or Wiener. This firm. So that's great. So honestly it looks like he may have been working with the same person for, for 12, we worked for the same person for 12 years.
And then now here's Stein again. So maybe you worked with Stein too, so you might've worked with these people for a long time, like 15 years. So this is a good resume. This is this shows a lot of employment stability. Now, if you took time off and were a freelance attorney, that's okay, but where are you really working during that time?
And it's okay if you weren't. So sometimes I recommend it's better off to take this off because it makes it almost a click. You couldn't find a job you're looking for a job, and so you can just, you can cover this in in the cover letter and you can just say, I took time off through my kid or, a sick child or, whatever the reason was.
And and then go into that. And but this this is a great resume, you have great experience and I don't know, talking about doing Excel reports, it's just that important. But the issue here is that a lot of what you were doing it looks like is organizing things and keeping things organized.
And you can see here that this software is, trying to get you to improve, read things a lot more, but so you need to figure out what it is. And you don't tell people things like you've demonstrated leadership you basically, these are the kinds of lions that people have that are written by professional resume writers that, that take your money and try to make your stuff look good.
And I'm not saying they don't do a good job because they deal most of the time. But but the point is you just want to you need to make things a little bit more easy to read and for people that are looking at this. And and that would be my what I would say.
And so try to make these maybe one or one or 2, 1, 1 bullet and Keno and you're saying controlled the negotiations, thoroughly researched and, so I would try to just maybe make one or two lines So about what you do and and what you did, and and then allow people to read into it what they want, but you should be able to get a job.
If you find firms that are doing the work you were doing before honors college graduate bar district course, all these things. Again, you don't you don't need to put in these district court things, people don't need to see that. I know, I understand that if there's a motion and everything, and then the notaries could so that's good.
So the other, this resume is fine. I don't know about these, these where you've done the highlights, but other than that, it's pretty good. Okay. Let's see here, registered patent attorney with experience this is a good resume. This is a great resume. I don't talk about that in a minute.
Resident register, penetrating experience my grandparents, they're in software in over 200 applications and experience working with banners. Okay. And you don't need the summary. I don't know why people do that. You're welcome to, but all that stuff really could be covered here.
You've been at this firm for four years. I would try to shorten this down if you've done 200 plus patents, people are going to understand that and again, you were a partner at this firm for a year. W the way I would read this by the way is I would read this person had a good experience here that a pretty good experience here.
They didn't have a good experience with this firm and they were partners. So I don't want to say much about it. So I would for each of these, I would try to put maybe one or most two bullet points but this is a great resume. There's nothing wrong with this. And if this person is having a hard time getting a job, it's just, you haven't been marketed properly.
And the member of the bars but everything is good about this. And you can see here to the senior attorneys, don't, there's no reason to put all these student organizations. This person for all, might've been, I don't know if the law review where they're not throwing it on there.
So this is a good resume. I like this resume. I don't have. Any problems with it at all, except for the length of all these I think this resume ideally should be one page. Anybody that looks at this and as a patent attorney and is hiring a patent attorney will know that, know what you're doing.
And you're definitely employable. The only thing that I would recommend is if you do have some certain type of experience like related to patent law, that you that you make sure that focus is really on there and reflected, but this is a great resume. There's nothing problematical about it at all.
And yeah. Okay. We'll take a break for, let's take a break for the next stuff four minutes since we've been doing this for a couple hours and since I'll be back in about four to five minutes and then we'll come back and do some more resumes
