Highlighting Specialized Experience: Crafting a Resume for In-House Employment

Description

• Emphasize your last job and title on your resume.
• Avoid overstating experience in unrelated areas.
• Showcase commitment to a specific practice.
• Deemphasize significant practice area changes.
• Highlight relevant experience for your target role.
• Convince employers that you're an expert in your field.

Transcript

Transcript:

The key there would just be to put your last job and the title you had, and you don't need to say a lot. The idea is anytime you're doing different things, you need to deemphasize that you don't want to lie. I'm not saying, and the law firm can ask it. I may know what the other law firm does, but you don't want to lie, but you need to.

You want people to read your resume and be convinced that you're committed to doing one type of practice. This person spent 19 years doing mortgage foreclosure than the past 10 or 15 years doing in-house corporate counsel, but you don't want people to. So, I'm going to read only a little into this previous experience, whereas if you were trying to get a job as a personal injury defense attorney. Then you probably would want to talk less about having done trust in the States and then personal injury plaintiffs' work.

You would just talk about related to that. Sometimes, people do these significant practice area changes, which is okay, but law firms want to hear very little about it. They want to think that they're hiring an expert. Do one thing you would go into: avoid going too much on that.