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Description:
This resume that Harrison Barnes is reviewing is one of those that he likes. He is impressed with his performance in law school and loves the description. He advises combining the summer associate experience in just one line with fewer details, not drawing too much attention to it. A few notes he mentioned is avoiding certain things that will scare people, such as:
- Personal interests/activities (hunting, non-traditional hobbies, etc.)
- Sensitive topics (racism, violence, etc.)
Transcript:
This is another great resume. There's a lot of things been done very well with this this person yeah I love the description of what the person did in law school. I don't know that saying that paralegal certificate is really necessary. Yeah,
I think it's okay. Like a lot of these, like when the problem with when when you start putting A lot of this stuff on your resume, and again, I'm certainly not taking sides here by any stretch of the imagination, but when,
okay,
I like this I'll talk about some of this other stuff a little bit. I like this stuff here. The summer associate job should be, you should basically combine it up here, so you would stay September. So he would basically put your summer associate jobs here and then take this out. And you don't really talk about what you did as a summer associate, and then you would just put this out.
This is a good resume, by the way. There's a lot of great things about this. And then and then put that here and then you don't need to put this there, then you can just, so you don't have two lines about that. You were a legal intern for three months law school.
30 minutes, probably. Okay. Okay.
Okay. Yeah, I think that's probably okay. I'm not sure. I hadn't seen that you did that. I don't have a problem with that. Finnegan, Haas fail. I might just put you were a paralegal at you might just put down a litigation paralegal. I think it's probably okay. You were a paralegal three very good firms.
So I would say combine them, but I think it's probably okay. And I would just put I don't know how much information are you need to put clearly you were probably doing it in your practice area. Yeah, I think that's probably okay. I don't know that you need a lot of description there, any at all.
And now you're doing litigation. And then and then your school, you did great. I liked that. And then Georgetown law schools had. Okay. So this stuff here, a lot of times, like I've been in lots of discussions with people through, throughout the years about bringing in, things about rape or violence or and their resumes.
And it's really up to you. And it's actually very impressive that you have these outside interests and are interested in them. The problem is, these are things that, that can Ken and I'm not saying do, but I'm saying they can make certain people in certain firms uncomfortable.
And and and so your job is really to to try to get a job and not necessarily in this person, by the way, it looks like you're trying to move to California or maybe interested in California. So that's great to put that on there. I don't mean you need to put it on the top, but I think that's fine and you can see here that the person didn't even put their other stuff, but these things, so you just, you have to be careful about them and how you handle them.
No, one's gonna say that to you, but me. But but you have to be very careful, so people everyone's motivated from, it comes from light, from different standpoints and from different experiences and things, but you have to decide, this is a trade-off you are going to with this information I'm here, you may scare off some people and but it may be important to you because it's how you define yourself.
And so I'm not telling you what to do, but certain things on a resume will scare people off. This other, everything else in this resume is insane. It's great. And this is actually good too. It's going to get you into the right people. I love that. You've been doing this since 2006.
You can commit to things. There's so many good things about your resume and you're committed and fleet legal profession. I do think it's okay to leave the the paralegal certificate on there, but I would probably put it under Georgetown. I wouldn't I wouldn't emphasize. As part of this separate cause then it just makes it look like you want it to be a paralegal.
And then but I would be careful about that. But other than that, everything's very good. But again, you have to, and I think, if you ask all these questions, that kind of person can be managed, obviously they can't them in the same job for five years. And but you have to be careful, anything that you guys do that puts, anything to do with things that can make people uncomfortable, and that would go for putting, some, far right organization on there or talking about, that you like hunting, some people aren't going to be appalled by, people that hunt and it's going to make them uncomfortable.
So you just have to be careful about all the sort of things. Okay.
