Description:
This video shows Harrison Barnes assessing a good attorney resume. He suggests that it should have a direct focus to ensure that the employer can determine if you are fit for the position. Here are six essential pieces of advice to show emphasis on your resume.
1. A resume is the first impression you make on potential employers. It would be best if you built a resume that will get you noticed.
2. Employers want a concise, professional, and clean format that will show them what they need to know about you.
3. Interviewers are looking for specific skills and qualifications. Your resume should be tailored to the position you're applying for.
4. Proofreading is an excellent way of ensuring that you have no errors on your resume.
5. Always make it clear how your skills apply to a specific practice area.
6. Include only relevant experience on your resume.
Transcript:
Okay. This does not belong at the top that belongs to the bottom for the next resume. There was some, a patch.
Okay. So all this stuff you don't want to say. So any everything you guys are putting in your summaries should be communicated by your I checked in by your your resume and a lot of this too, you have to be careful about how you phrase things. So this particular person is it, do you want to call yourself, so here you were doing okay.
Wow, this is great. So this person I, this is actually a very good resume if you want to be a like for example, if you want to be a family law attorney, which it looks like you might this is a very good resume for that. And and almost what I would do honestly, is I would, if you want to get a family law job and you can and I don't ever advise people not to, to take things off the resume and not talk about their current employer, but but this, this isn't really relevant to be a a family law attorney.
So this, this, I would, you, you need to, all this stuff needs to be shortened. It's just too much information. And the best attorneys do not need to write all this stuff. So you just wanna, basically, just get it down. You need to know really shorten this resume up.
And here, if you're a compliance review attorney, I think you're better off. Probably you have to think about what titles you use are and and what you're talking about, but people need to look at your resume and they need to see some sort of focus and and the focus needs to be direct.
So they want to know what exactly it is you're doing. They want to understand your. They, they want to have, they want to see some sort of consistency because right now, like when you look at this sent red tech it throws people off because all of a sudden it looks like, you're doing something different than than you were doing before.
And and, when you were doing this job for, year and three months, and then this other one for over a year, so it's just actually a paralegal
put down, apparently. That would just I wouldn't even say anything about it. I would just say prepared litigation, pleadings, Andrea, to me, stay there and I head paralegal. Okay. So you were a paralegal after you graduated? I see. Okay. I don't understand that, but that's okay.
And and then when was at Bard missions? Oh, it's September 19th. Okay. So that's okay. So it looks like it just took a lot of credits to pass the bar drink and take the bar until later. But anything you can do not to draw a lot of attention to that would be good. Just don't put down the dates, just, I would just put member of Missouri state bar and leave it at that.
And and and I don't yeah, I would just, a little careful about that, how you do that. Okay. So again, take off these dates. I would tick off APA then I would take off all of this. And so a lot of this stuff, by the way, it's just, you need to put people on a course.
And the people need to understand who you are. So here, it looks like you had pretty good experience. And I, if I was if you were a family law attorney and I saw your resume and you were in Missouri, and I saw this, I would say, this is someone I'd want to represent because there's a lot of demand for that.
Now, if now that I see this, they moved to Chicago, it makes it a little difficult because I'm like, I don't know, what this person, why they're doing this anymore. So it's just something to think about, like the focus everyone's resume to focus. Okay, let's do that. Nine years of diverse experience.
Okay. So again, this, all this stuff here really needs to come come off. It's just, it's not helping anyone.
I don't know what this employer is and it may just because of the things are translating correctly. But I don't know what this employer is, let's see here. Okay. Yeah, you're working for secretary of labor. Okay. I don't know. So I would take a close look at that, like how that's working.
This is great. The Reed law firm. So you were there for three years. Again, I would it looks like you're doing all these different sorts of things. If you emphasize this, by the way, this resume here, everybody has this. If you have three different practice areas, you can certainly you can apply to a firm and just talk about your family law experience in your cover letter.
That's one option and your resume. So if you wanted to get a family law position, which is very marketable right now you could do that if you're just trying to get a civil litigation job, then then you can go, you just take all this out, but anything you do that paint yourself into one corner or doing one type of work is going to hurt you.
So you need to be careful about that. And then here, you're doing family law too. I think this is a great family law resume. There's a lot of demand right now for family law. And this looks like what this is, it looks like things got cut up here. Somehow this ended up down there. So that's great.
Now it says department of labor, so that's great. So now this person is an employment attorney. I would try to in my resume everything I did here, I would try to make it look more like I'm doing anything related to employment work and just leave it at that.
That's how I would do that. I would if you want to stay in employment, cause here you were doing or talked about litigation or, something along those lines. And then I would also if I could, make these a little bit shorter, they subscriptions, but this is a good resume.
You should also get a position and your admissions, you can just clean those up, but I don't think this person will have too much trouble getting something and even transitioning back to a law firm. But it looks like you have a pretty good job now. So I don't know why necessarily want to do that, but that's up to you.
But yeah, short enough, these descriptions let's see Florida coastal school of law, 2011 representative cases.