By Emily Sanderson
Including a representative transaction sheet as an addendum to your attorney resume allows you to provide more detail about the legal transactions you have conducted throughout your career. Usually one or two pages, the sheet lists transactions in bulleted prose and groups them by law category under headings with category names.
Place the categories [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Sending a Transaction Sheet with Your Attorney Resume
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Using Strong Verbs in Your Resume
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By Emily Sanderson
Whether you use bullets or place structured phrases in prose form separated by semicolons in your resume, you know that resumes must sound assertive, project confidence, and place you in a category above the rest. Using strong action verbs in your consistently structured phrases makes your resume easy to read; potential employers [...]
How to Answer Questionable Questions in a Job Interview
Posted in Juriscape Articles on February 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
By Emily Sanderson
“Whether the question is legal or not, you still might have an incentive to answer it,” says Bill Coleman, senior vice president and chief compensation officer at Salary.com, regarding how to respond to questions in a job interview that may be too personal.
Attorney and legal analyst Jeff Isaac says, “Follow one of two [...]
Transferable Skills Often Facilitate a Needed Career Shift
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By Emily Sanderson
The oil crisis of 1987 eliminated many oil-related jobs in the United States. The advent of the Internet in the mid-1990s changed the business outlook for many job sectors including IT and the media. 9/11 affected the financial industry in 2001, and the real estate sector is feeling the pain now as lending [...]
Southern California Focused on Fire Prevention
Posted in Juriscape Articles on February 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
By Emily Sanderson
In the aftermath of the Southern California wildfires in October this year that killed seven and destroyed over 2,000 homes, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger instructed his Blue Ribbon Task Force to review their findings on the 2003 wildfires, which burned 3,600 homes in many of the same places. [...]
