Description
Description:
It is a common misconception that having an attorney resume with several different practice areas because more opportunity opens up. You will be much more likely to find the perfect job if you focus on one specific area. Harrison Barnes greatly recommends having to focus your resume as there are advantages. Having a focused, targeted resume that focuses on one area of law is an advantage in the market today. The advantages are:
- When you have one practice area focused on your attorney resume, it makes it easier to find a job.
- It's also a way to show employers the skills and expertise you have in one specific field of law.
- A focused resume will help impress potential employers who are looking for lawyers with expertise in their area.
- It can help an attorney get noticed by employers who only want lawyers specializing in that field.
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A skilled litigator and negotiators, so close millions of dollars in bankruptcy cases, transactions.
Okay, great. guess this person has their own firm. Okay.
Okay.
okay. Normally I wouldn't like all the stuff here but this is interesting. I don't know what this person's trying to do. Exactly. So I don't know. If they're trying to I don't know, if you're trying to move your practice to another firm or what you're trying to do exactly. But all the stuff the education's great real estate investment thing is great. The senior council that see here adjunct professor, like all this stuff is very impressive. Oh, it looks okay. So I see. But you've had your own firm for almost, for 18 years. So I don't know what you're trying to do now is my only, the only issue, and it looks to me like you're doing a lot of litigation and and but you're also a real estate investor, and that's why you went to school to get that degree in real estate investing.
I, if it was me I don't know what you want to do. If you want to do real estate, then you need to focus your resume in real estate. If you want to do litigation to that. And then this particular resume, should be focused more so on. Whatever you can do to.
Talk about the amount of business you have and whatever you're bringing, if you just want to do transactional real estate, for example it doesn't look like that's what you're doing though. But if that's what was what you wanted to do, then you need to be focused on that, but it needs to have some sort of focus in terms of your practice, right?
Because here's, you're doing bankruptcy, real estate, commercial litigation. It needs to be focused and you need to decide, choose a practice area in terms of what you want to do. Exactly. Okay. Let's take a quick break because and we'll come back and I'll be back in probably like three to four minutes and then we will finish up the rest of these resume.
