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In this video, Harrison Barnes reviews an attorney's resume, which he thinks is suitable for someone who wants to advocate for children, but it also shows document review.
Lawyers are not born with their future occupation. They have to choose and then hone in on the right skillset for themselves over time, most often by identifying a specific practice area that they want to excel at.
Here are some of the tips to emphasize your main practice area:
- If you want to show off your primary practice area, make it the first thing on your resume.
- Make sure that you list any other skills or experience in a different section so as not to draw attention away from what is most important for current and future employers.
- Put only one bullet to discuss what you do.
- You'll also want to make sure all work experience falls into one main category. When employers see past positions, their eyes can be drawn right away towards where your strengths lie without having any confusion.
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Okay. So I love that resume. It's very, there's a lot of lessons there. Co-founder operate Renegade, paintball. Okay. All right. Let's see here. So summer qualifications. Okay. So this person is a documentary of attorney.
There's nothing you don't need to put all this experience. I'm assuming that what you want to do is continue to be an undocumented attorney that you were doing legal aid. Okay. And then staff attorney lost in her university of Michigan law school. Okay. So this is a good resume for someone that wants to be maybe An advocate for children, I would say there's a lot of things going on here. What I would recommend you need to put the locations of these places you've worked in. You need to you need to the dates I would say, would be important. It looks like the dates are there. And then
yeah, like all this stuff with families and things. So if it was me, I would probably emphasize that stuff. I would. The emphasized to the extent you can just just, I would just write something like a contract attorney or something instead of doctrine review, because that's going to make you look like a document of your attorney.
You don't want to be put into that role. And then I would actually just say I don't know that you need to say lay off there. You could probably put here and then and just remember that a lot of the stuff less is more so I don't know what you'd want to have, but I would recommend just putting one bullet to discuss as what you do and not all this stuff here.
I think that would be more helpful for you. And and I don't know what the bullet is. I'm just showing you how this should look. And then, if you were a volunteer attorney or something, just, just cleaning all this up and making the resume much shorter. And and I don't know November, what seeing your Michigan real estate attorney is probably a lot of the stuff you don't want to detract from the main message.
So what all these are, what I'm trying to do with all these resumes. The last one we looked at all the stuff was going on that had nothing to do with basically the summary is I'm all over the place. And and that may be why you're not getting the job. And no one cares by the way.
No one cares these law firms do not care that you have done all these things they don't care about. They don't care. They just need people to do the work. That's it. And and if you put things on there though that you're not going to do the work or stick around, they're not going to like it.
The same thing here you don't need to put all this information here. You just need to basically point people in one direction and and you will get a job if you do that. But again, a lot of these kinds of things, it's if you just did one thing that wasn't that big of a deal when you were in college or law school, that's okay, but you don't need to really draw attention to it.
You just want to be Very careful about making sure people think you're focused and and not listing too much on there. And then a good strategy when you add a lot of different jobs from short period of time, it's just to put down what they were now you're seeing here that you're not putting your graduation dates on there.
That's okay. But typically the only reason to do that is if you've been out of school a long time. And I typically, and I, I'm not sure very old, I don't know that it's a good idea to do that. Okay. Let's see the next one juror Dr. Candidate.
Okay. So one semester on the Dean's list is not something you should put on your resume. And then how 30%, not necessarily something to recommend. But it's fine. You need to be careful with I'm not saying not to put it on there, but the problem with a lot of attorneys is a lot of attorneys weren't in fraternities. I actually think they're a good thing because I think they make people, I was doing a podcast about them yesterday, or they came up and I think they make people focused on they make them understand how to get along in different types of groups, but at the same time a lot of people have preconceptions that places and that sort of thing.
I'm really don't know. That's going to have to be up to you if you want to put that on your resume. I also don't know what team speak is sometimes you use, people have different opinions of fraternities. That's another thing that will rub people the wrong way.
It's up to you, what you want to do. It, it could help you with certain places. It can help not help you with others. I don't it's going to be up to you to leave it on or not. You're obviously a leader, that's good. People will like that. You'll probably be very good at whatever firm you go to and develop business and everything, which is good.
I liked that as well. I don't really know what to tell you. The Lexus nexus. Yeah. Is probably good. And the NAACP member I guess that's okay. If you did next generation leadership, that's cool. I like all this stuff. Here's a concise Harvey about Houston national black film festival.
That's all fine.
