Transcript
Description:
Here, Harrison Barnes is assessing a foreign attorney's resume. He has the same feedback to almost all resumes which is to keep it short and straightforward. But there are a few things that he emphasizes on how to improve this resume. These are:
- Remove all website URLs on your resume.
- Experience/Activities done in other countries should be placed in other categories.
- Volunteer details should also be at the bottom.
- Focus the experience on one relevant practice area.
Transcript:
We're Chicago school of law, Illinois DACA.
Okay. So this stuff where you guys put URL, so the places you worked and your resume needs to stop, so people that can't do that more, you guys need to stop doing that. Let's see here. Okay, so you got a job as a litigator which is great considering that you came from Bangladesh and then and then, came over and got this degree and that's great.
And you got a JSD and then an LLM. So that's amazing. So it's very difficult by the way, for people to come more from foreign countries and actually successfully get into US-based law firms this sort of thing you want to make sure I would take this off a lot of this information here, just it's just fluff and just talk about the fact that you're a litigate.
And then all this is good. This is great. I would again, like here, like you went to university of Chicago law school, which is just amazing. And then and then you have and then you got a JST in 2017. So I would be careful unless you want to do family law. I would just say you're a legal assistant anything that points towards consumer facing work is going to get you a consumer facing job.
And then and then all this sort of stuff should probably be anything that you did in other parts of the world and so forth. I would probably try to put that in other category. I wouldn't emphasize it at the top of your resume and the same thing about volunteer. I wouldn't go too much into that.
I would try to put that towards the bottom as well. You're if this resume, by the way, just said university of Illinois law school and just had TB Robinson group and talked about what you did there. Your resume would be much stronger than with all this other stuff on it. I think it's very strong because I can understand how difficult it must've been to to come over from Bangladesh and do all these things you've done and how motivated you are.
But and that you need to be a super good point. People towards I'm a litigator, boom, that's it. And then and I do all of these motions and I do all this work. And if you do that and nothing more you will get a job, but if you start confusing people with all these things that aren't related to anything like, volunteer rivers I don't even know everything that's going on here.
Then you're the readers of this resume get confused. And and they get overwhelmed and they just, they move on to something that they understand. And so that's how I would handle that. And even the stuff, if there's a way to no one cares that you're no law firm in frickin Houston, Texas is going to care that you're admitted to the doc par so you need to somehow figure out how to bury all this stuff in a few lines at the bottom and all your other foreign experience say opposite water.
And, they're beforehand, leave it at that because otherwise it's just too confusing. And I'm telling you, it does not because you have no right to be proud of your previous life experience, but just because if all this said was university of Illinois law school TB Robinson. And then you were a summer associate at something and then you would be very employable, but having all this other stuff just makes it too difficult.
There's too much going on. And, regulatory law and policy. No one cares about all this stuff. You do, but the employer just wants someone that'll sit down and be easy to hire, do the work