In this recent Q&A clip, Harrison offers valuable insights for optimizing your legal resume.
Highlight your specialization by subtly incorporating practice area-related keywords.
Craft a detailed resume showcasing your expertise, with a focus on your specific practice area.
Make sure your past and current experiences reflect keywords and relevant information.
Law firms seek specialists, so tailor your resume to stand out in your chosen practice area.
Transcript
Transcript:
The idea would be if you were, and these are just different ideas of different practice areas, but if you were to find if you were doing, say it benefits law. This is just an example. These would be things that would probably be included and would be related to that practice area. And so you would look at that and just make sure your resume talks about that.
You don't want to put the keywords on the resume, but you want people to read the resume and see keywords or things related to the specific practice area. They need to hire someone for it. Your resume needs to be in a lot of detail. Whatever your practice area is, the more keywords related to that, the more you stick out.
Every law firm wants to hire specialists. So, the more you can look like a specialist, the better. You want people to read your current and past experiences and see the keywords and related information. The more of that they see, the happier they are.
