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In this video, legal recruiter Harrison Barnes stresses that resumes should skip unnecessary information as it will add more time for recruiters/employers to read lengthy text that will not add value to the hiring process. Here is a list of things you should not include in your resume:
- Anything about money is not necessary. Do not include personal financial/salary information.
- You should not include any personal information until the interviewer has established some level of trust with you.
- No need to add certificates that you have earned or local bar memberships you have joined. If needed, they will ask that later.
- Reduce the need for people to read. Be brief with information.
- Present yourself as a new, more professional self by omitting irrelevant information.
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The first thing is with people like to put their salaries and their resume. And I would love to get more input on this resume.
Sometimes I'm on these resume reviews and I see a resume like this, and I'm going to ask people to review it if you want to resend it. And we can maybe do a, another resume a workshop, but it needs to be focused on whatever you want to do. And you don't need to talk about all these different things you did because there's no, there has to be focused.
It has to be focused on something. Okay. So this person is so the first thing is you don't list your salary on your resume. If you list your salary, when an employer wants to know your salary, they want to know your salary so they can pay you a little bit more, a little bit less than you're making.
That is just not smart. You, someone I've taken people that are making $8,000 a year and gotten them jobs for, two or three times, I do it all the time. So you need to
okay. But I'd like there's a lot of things I like about this resume. You don't, and you don't put the phone in on here. No one you don't need to do that. That's not necessary. People will ask for that later, so you don't need to do that. He brought in business, you can put that. But I don't know that's necessary.
This person graduated. So remember when you've been out of school for less than four years, you put your education at the top.
No need to draw attention to the fact that you're an evening law student
no need to draw fact that you got a certificate in compliance like that other, you can put that maybe. And I wouldn't even call this honors. I would just put whatever this does he go Scouts. Good. Guys, don't need to put all these local bar associations. Anybody can join the American bar association. That's got a checkbook same thing with the prince George's our association these getting admitted to federal district courts and stuff. Anybody can do a motion, so you don't need to do that.
None of that is that necessary? I think here just this wasn't a very long internship, probably don't need a lot of information here about it. You can, if you want, but I wouldn't recommend it. I don't think about the stuff about saying you were unpaid as necessary.
You have all the stuff in here about money. These are the same dates, so I don't really get that
maybe that states are messed up. It says approximately $15 hours. Yeah. So just take kickoff, your salaries on there. Tick off the some paid stuff. No one cares. And then most people aren't really spending a lot of time doing stuff. This is a good resume. The resume is good because you look well positioned to be worked in a as an employment attorney, but, let's take off all this stuff that has nothing to do, where you being an employment attorney, let's take out all this stuff about you being having supervisors and It's basically, if you're trying to do something and I'm assuming you're trying to do more employment, which you, I hope so because you've been doing that for almost a year and that's how you will get a job.
This, you can get a job in lots of employment firms, but you need to really make it look like you're an employment attorney and take all this stuff out to tracks from it. And these, by the way, when anybody, when you put extra language and so forth on your resume it just confuses people.
And it gives them much more stuff to read. And people don't necessarily like spending a lot of time reading things. They just, it's just annoying and you don't need to tell people you make less money than you may, or you're more money or less money. No one cares. It's not. You just don't put it on there and you don't put information.
That's unnecessary. Like it's not, you don't need to put on that. You got admitted on motion to the federal district court or the, or a member of the American bar association. No one cares. I wouldn't even say professional associations or bar admissions. I would actually, these are just these are just a professional associations too.
So I would just, you don't even need to call Bard missions. You just, just make things easy for people to read. And people should be able to look here at resume. If I send this resume and I was looking for an employment attorney and I saw this stuff, I would get confused. But if I saw just this at the top, I would be happy.
Now, if you don't want to be an employment attorney, do you want to do something else? That's a whole separate discussion, but as it is now this resumes in good shape to be an employment attorney would have see what this person is doing.
So this is another foreign resume. And I apologize, but I'm not an expert. I'm an expert in us resumes. Yeah. I don't know that I can get into too much detail with this particular one. I think a lot of the same things that I say are the same for this resumes for others. I think you want to be very careful about anything that deals with things that aren't related to practicing law.
So a lot of times people do this they're very happy about things that they do that are unrelated. And so here you took the CFA exam, you did know, pitched to do something else. And and now you're an accountant. This is yeah, so I don't know that I can get much help with this particular okay.
