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Pointing Out Your Work-Roles
Attorney resumes are expected to reflect the mindset of a good attorney and should be intelligently detailed. However, lack of space and the need to finish the resume within a maximum of two pages, or preferably a single page, handicaps us from presenting much of the relevant information that could have worked for us.

The tradition of attaching annexure or addenda in attorney resumes as in other legal documents, thankfully, helps us in solving the problem of space, but it does not solve the riddle of what to present in that space.

The art of resume writing and presentation, especially in specialized nooks like that of attorney resumes have become rather calcified, and each resume looks like a copy of another except changes in personal particulars of the candidate. Even if you have a seemingly stellar resume, you can't afford to bank on it to pass the first rounds of screening, because the recession assures another few hundred similarly stellar resumes to be present on the recruiter's desk. So, we need to find ways to improvise upon the presentation of information, and while keeping within the traditional format, do something that a recruiter seriously marks as a helpful effort, thus increasing your chances of recruitment. A little thing that can make a big difference to this end is the presentation of work roles.

Work-Roles in Attorney Resumes

Let's face it, you already know about everything that apparently need to be presented within a resume including personal particulars, recommendations, and most importantly work-experience, but rarely considered presenting your work-roles under separate headings. You are not alone. Most candidates, even those at the top, rarely consider systematic presentation of work-roles correlated with work experience. This is because, traditionally, the simple iteration of chronological work-experience with sufficient employer brands is enough. However, under the recession and with the heightened competition between resumes clamoring to grab the recruiter's attention, the traditional approach is no more enough, and it becomes necessary to re-analyze the objectives of a resume, as well as the needs of the recruiter that demand satisfaction through a resume.

The principal problem with objectively describing work-roles is that people either consider the issue to be covered by mention of his or her job-designation with an employer, or mention it within the work-experience and expect the recruiter to sort out the information and make inferences. It no more works that way. The recruiter wants to be sure about a potential candidate and wants to be able to pinpoint with success the actual skill-sets and habits of a candidate to avoid making the wrong choice. Put yourself in the recruiter's seat and see how much the following information tells you:

Designation: Assistant Corporate Attorney

Vertical: Mergers & Acquisitions

Work-Experience: Two years. I have helped to prepare documentation for mergers successfully and have also actively participated in client negotiations.

Now add to the above,

Work Roles: Research and documentation assistant reporting to senior attorneys; assisting client negotiations; assisting in concluding mergers.

You will be able to mark the differences and the attitudes that come through easily enough. While what you are presenting under the heading of work-roles can easily find place under the heading work-experience, it is improper, for your work-roles show the quality of your experience, they themselves do not constitute experience. Also, in the traditional format of presentation, you are forced to put the ''I'' in front, to the irritation of recruiters, and diverge from a dispassionate presentation of work-roles.

In attorney resumes, intelligently dividing work-experience and work-roles helps the creation of a more forceful resume and one that is helpful to recruiters, and thus, appreciated.

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