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Description:
In this video, Harrison Barnes is assessing an attorney's resume, which appears to want to be working in corporate law. However, he notices many different things on the document that he thinks should not be there. It can all detract from a candidate's ability to deliver impartiality in the workplace - regardless of their personal beliefs or what they want for themselves as individuals.
We need to steer clear from including any information about:
- Religion/Beliefs
- Politics/Political Interest
- Race/Ethnicity
Transcript:
People want to look at. This person's a corporate attorney. They always wanted to be a corporate attorney. And so when you start talking about, all this other stuff you were doing can detract from that. And it's not that's a bad thing but it is if you want to get a job. Everything needs to be corporate related.
If that's what you want to do, if you want to be litigation then everything needs to look the opposite, but that's how I would handle that. And I would, really talk me in the, about my corporate related experience. Okay. Anderson, private client services corporations and partnerships.
Okay. So this particular person you are definitely marketable because trusting the states is very active right now. I would, anytime you start talking about experiences, and again, you want to put people I don't say you need to say ultra high net, you can just say high net in those trust states, corporations,
and then, yeah. And then
yeah, so being a volunteer in these clinics I don't know how much that's going to help you. No, you may want to put that on there and that's perfectly fine. But but right here, just with the stuff alone being a tax associate at wherever you are at San Francisco I would just say tax associate with two actually during this tax for tax returns.
Yeah. I would just put, anything again that detracts from putting people on the scent of the type of work you do is should come out. So everyone, even though you may be very proud of your immigration experience or your integration, you had this other experience, I really recommend, minimizing it and making people see you as someone who's all legal doing one type of thing, yes, this person went to Hastings in this conversion, by the way, I apologize.
This is all not in the people's resume. This is ours. Okay. LA Raza co-chair volunteer income tax, no student leader of the year nominee, no nominee doesn't mean provost's award, great Hispanic scholarship, five great music jazz and the African diaspora. And that was very interesting. I actually studied the African diaspora in college.
I thought it was interesting staff writer and editor for the mural quarterly. Okay. That's fine. And emissions go at the bottom.
Oh, this is this resume. I see. Okay. Yeah. Fine. Great. So this is a good restaurant. And I liked what they do because this is another resume fluent in Spanish.
So the education emissions member that goes in the bottom unless you're applying to jobs in New York actually people in New Jersey, I was getting the New York bar too. That's fine. No
deputy pace, intellectual property, sports and entertainment. No. So these These sorts of things you can you can put on there just saying you're part of a, can you say you're part of the intellectual property form, that's fine. But then, you should be applying for intellectual property jobs. If you want to do sports and entertainment, then you know, you should be applying for there.
And then so anything that puts people off of the scent of what you want to do everyone likes and not everyone likes animals. That's fine. I dunno if it's a Muslim law student, one L representative, or that's the secretary of the Muslim law students association. That's perfectly fine too.
So let's just cover one of the things we always covered this on every meeting. But you know anything to do there's an article on BCG called you know, things to remove from your resume or something.
I recommend and this is just me. But this is what I recommend removing anything to do for the most part legend all the pics.
Yeah.
Socialist. Yeah.
I don't know if handicap they're good one, but any, anything that allows people.
And I hate to say but that's just really something to think about. I there's a lot of anger in society against people that are white from privileged backgrounds. There's a lot of anger. It's society against people. Different types of people.
Anytime you advertise some sort of affiliation and stuff, it can, it, it can hurt you or it can help you, but you don't why take a chance? One of the things that I've always noticed is if I have two equal resumes of two similar people, and one person talks a lot about their religion or their, and you can see a lot of these resumes to it, the religion and other stuff, or they talk about this person talking about substance abuse and that the people will reach conclusions about it.
Now. I personally have had great experiences with, lots of different types of people and and I have people working for me of all different religions, but, there are places that where there's, where people don't like the sort of stuff.
So there's no reason to advertise it. I don't think on your resume unless you know what you're getting into, because what you're getting into maybe and it's not something the rules that I'm making up, it's just how society works. I certainly. I wouldn't, imagine me advertising and I don't belong to one, but if there was some sort of, exclusionary country club or something I belong to and putting it on my resume and then writing that I'm from a long line of Americans that came over in the Mayflower.
Who wants to know that? That's gonna make people instantly disliked me. You just need to be careful sometimes about listening to that stuff. And I'm not saying, just take it off if you don't want to, but I am telling you that it's going to help you in some quarters and it's going to hurt you and others.
And I would prefer not to have the risk, especially with a good resume. So let's see. So refi home settlements, passionate bank attorney. Okay. So I would be more likely to want to call myself a banking attorney. And this is okay. It looks more like a real estate attorney. And then this is an externship.
So I would, again, for this particular job, just put a little bit of information. And then this is more of a a summer internship. So I wouldn't, when you start using words to track from things that are related to to, to things that are not what you're doing you just need to be very careful.
So I liked that this person's doing all of this very helpful stuff for other things. Advocating for low income people and so forth. But when you start putting all of that stuff on there it's detracting from the overall message, which is really that this person who does a lot of real estate work.
And so all of this, everything that's going on here is really related to and this dumb Mazda Honda you grew up so this person is doing a lot of volunteers. So if I was a law firm, when I was looking at this resume what I would think is that, this person, if you can see the animal legal defense, the the these things here where they were domestic violence then minority owned businesses helping low-income clients.
So my thought would be that this person wants to help this Spanish person. This is a very good person. Someone personally that I probably would like a lot because a person, but I don't know that I would want to have them working inside of my law firm where they're representing all sorts of people that have workers' compensation.
This is injured workers. This is Helping hand as my youth group, like all these things are related to helping other people, and there's nothing wrong with that. But from a law firm standpoint this person has interests that are not going to be necessarily in line with what a law firm does.
And I would just maybe say attorney here would be how I would handle that. If you say settlement specialist, then you're carving yourself into that. So you need to define yourself. And then right here, this person suddenly looks like they could be a real estate agent, a real estate attorney, or have some experience doing something like that.
And and then, and that would be good. And then without talking a lot about your experience in this legal internship maybe you can talk about anything, if you've done anything to do with real estate there, just make it look more transactional. And then all this sudden if you take a lot of this stuff out and you you edit it then it's gonna make you look more like a real estate attorney.
That's how I would handle it. What I would do I like all these leadership roles that you've had. But again, just be very careful about anything that points people in a different direction than what your experiences. Okay. I've actually been to gunny air India, and that's how you pronounce it.
And that's a nice town it's in outside of the bottom. And it's actually one of the nicer too. There's a lot of greenery and stuff there compared to other places. So I but unfortunately this is another foreign resume that I can't do much with, but I love that this person's from there.
And I would take my advice about what I've talked about with other foreign resumes, but I can't really do much for this resume because let's see here mid the Florida bar, United States, district court, Florida bar exam. Let's see here. Okay. LLM. Okay. Then they went to school in the UK and Saudi Arabia and Kyra.
