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Here, Harrison Barnes is reviewing a resume that started great as it shows the attorney had an excellent educational background, such as being on the dean's list and summa cum laude. However, he said that it is best not to include how many semesters he has been part of the dean’s list to avoid drawing attention to why you are not on the dean’s list for all semesters. He emphasizes what law firms are looking for in a resume and the following are a few things:
- Excellent educational achievement.
- Employment stability. You do not want to look like you are jumping around too much
- Long-term employment commitment.
- Include other experiences related to your focused path.
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This resume, let's see.
Dean's list three semesters. No. So again, I don't like that. I think if you're ranked 17 out of 24, I would think that you have indeed as opposed to every semester. Just anything that draws attention to not being Dean's list all semesters is fine, best performance award for all these classes.
That's great. Summa cum laude. Wow. So this is great. Everything is good about and you don't need to underline hand maybe we did. I don't know. But and this, again, the licensure goes at the end. One of the things you'll notice, this is when you review attorneys resumes that that and this was, and again, this is not to be rude or mean or anything, but, if someone yeah goes to I don't know Harvard law school or in Michigan or something they almost never even they list their law school, but it's always at the end somewhere and it's never, or not their law school.
They're there the fact that they pass the bar and if or they're admitted to the bar, and if they didn't go to a top law school, it's always at the top. It's a big deal passing the bar, obviously, and people from Tufts law school certainly don't pass the bar all the time. And they may want to put it at the top too.
So their biggest achievement is passing the bar, you just it's assumed that if you're an attorney, you have the bar, so you don't want to really even talk about it. And if people see or an attorney in wherever this city is, then they know that you pass the virus. You don't really need to put it there.
You can put it there, but you don't need to go into a lot of detail. So this is a good resume. The education's good. The licensure belongs at the bottom. The this is a real estate attorney. This person is definitely employable. Shouldn't have too much trouble getting a position. I would not, I would combine the, so I would say you're a supervising attorney and an attorney.
So I would just. I would just call yourself an attorney with these dates and the supervising attorney to have those dates in the same thing. So you don't have two things there. And I don't even know that it's necessary to call yourself in a supervising attorney versus an attorney. You could just put a line in there or something.
That's how I would do that. And then
okay, so then you were a real estate attorney here and then and then these other jobs more real estate. And these were other things. And these are a lot of jobs. So for you one of the things is that you haven't lasted very long in a lot of, you've had a lot of positions and certainly not being judgmental here.
But what I would recommend doing is I would recommend
I would recommend putting other experience and then saying something along the lines of between when did you graduate between September 13 and may of 2018 listen to the first, yet other other not north or South Carolina law firms practicing business and R or whatever, practicing business and state planning related, work, something along those lines, because when you start having all these jobs on here and you start making yourself, and you're not really at this point, you've been in this job, you're Mannat for a couple of years and you're doing well.
I would but you need to, you don't want to look like you're jumping around too much. And so you need to be careful. And then again all of these different types of experience you've had probably law firms, aren't going to want to see too much of that.
They're going to want to. Yeah. Th they're not going to want to see all the different types of experience. So I'd be careful with that. And and just maybe a couple of lines about, the fact that you worked with these other firms. And then if you were a paralegal in the summers of 2011 and 12, and you graduated in 2013, I don't know if I would call myself.
I would just say you worked at these firms, don't call yourself a paralegal. Oh, I see summer associate or whatever, and then say paralegal, and this is actually a lot of stability there. So that's great. They actually liked you a lot there. And now we're just say something about other experience.
And I would say, between, during the summers of first law school, something along those lines and just try to make this all shorter, because you want, people don't want to hire, you are not believe you're going to stick around. Like one of the things I said earlier was that a law firm wants to know that you'll do the job long-term that's very important to be able to look like that on paper.
So anything that shows you can do the job long-term is helpful.
