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It is tempting to use your internship experience as a way of highlighting how you will be able to do the work that is being advertised. It may seem like this would help distinguish oneself from other candidates and make them more qualified for the position. However, this could lead to typecasting or preconceived notions by employers.
Harrison Barnes thinks that most employers are not interested in seeing an extensive list of the tasks you have completed at each company. Instead, they want applicants that show their best skillset on paper with minimal information about past jobs or internships. If you choose to include this type of information, make it brief and short; remember that less is more.
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So all this stuff that that isn't that big of a deal like a business officers, if they get, I typically recommend taking off their employers do not care. They're not gonna care if you've got a certificate in business law, they don't know what it means. All these scholarships are fellowships are great public service awards.
Great. I don't know what the Ady RHS structure, the south Asian law students association. Probably not something you need on there. Legal outreach, great student representative misconduct committee. Okay. That's fine. Student representative career services, faculty committee
Columbia So when you do have a foreign university on there you need to always people may have questions about whether or not you can work in the study missions. Don't go at the top that go at the bottom typically. So you don't want to put those right at the top of the resume. So internships again, you don't need all this detail here. You don't need all of this detail for these internships same thing all these internships, by the way, you guys, no one expects you to have had amazing experience in an internship or really to do much of anything. Okay.
Okay. So when I was in college, I started a a group to do drug and alcohol education at my law school. And mainly because I'd had a lot of friends and stuff that had had serious problems with drugs and alcohol and I thought it was a good thing. The problem is when I started putting that on my resume and going into interviews people started, talking to me and asking me about AA and all this stuff.
And I didn't know nothing about it. And they had assumed that because I was had this stuff on my resume that I too had substance abuse problems. And many of the people I was talking to actually had substance abuse problems that were interviewing and were interviewed for that reason. Now, I'm not saying that's a bad thing.
But at the same time when you put this kind of stuff on there it, people start believing that, you, you may have issues too, and it can actually be something that can help you or it can hurt you in my case I think it probably did a little bit more harm than good.
So I would just be careful about that. And then just a lot of these I would, anytime you try to make, and you haven't had it, you've been having from working very long and you try to make your, if your works on really important which I think is probably okay the way you're doing it, but, you need to be careful. So I would I would really try to talk a lot about mergers and acquisitions and try to make yourself look like you have really good corporate experience.
And then I would probably try to make that try to make whatever experience you have in your clerkship. And then at Anderson and Anderson looked very consistent throughout your experience. And and this is what you did here. Go senior hall, legal intern, transactional department, like you don't have to go into real estate litigation department, and you don't even need to say what the department was here.
You could just talk about, legal internship. And then you could say legal internship, because again, remember the goal is to put people on the scent of things. And that's really the biggest thing, anytime you have criminal defense and you have all this other stuff on there, you put people on a different set.
