How Do You Show You are Good: A Primer in Gentle Self-Promotion

On February 16, 2014

For those who hate to self-promote (rule #3), work into conversation, or at least into your resume: You work with top clients. It is understood no employer would assign you top accounts unless you have the necessary skills and judgment. You negotiate or litigate against top companies. This experience shows you have worked on complex […]

Career Management, Job Search, Resume

What to do if you don’t have the perfect resume?

On December 8, 2013

Some ways to show you can do the job even if you don’t have the ideal resume (addressed in my Dec. 1 blog): It’s always helpful to show academic excellence, e.g., you graduated in the top of your class/with honors, you were the top-ranked student for a particular class, or you served on law review (not […]

Resume

How To Get A Positive Response To Your Resume!

On September 8, 2013

Proper length. Junior lawyers should be on one page (the only exception: if there’s relevant business or technical experience). Senior lawyers should be on two pages, and can have an addendum for representative matters or publications/talks. Resumes that are too long will not be read. Zero errors. You can be dinged if you have even […]

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