Resume Advice Forum

[KMart]

[Mack.Hambleton]

work after college = resume expanded

[pancakes3]

You could flesh out your job portion with a bulleted list of your job responsibilities and have a skills portion where you brag about your proficiency in Microsoft Office and Spanish but in the grand scheme of things, it's not a big deal. You shouldn't be spending multiple hours on your resume.

[cron1834]

work after college = resume expanded

[oxie]

Did you hold different positions at the companies where you worked long-term? If so, you could make sub-sections for the various positions you've held, highlighting the different responsibilities you had a different times. And if you've had leadership or long-term involvement in extracurriculars, you should also break that out in a structured way, which will bulk up your extracurriculars section.

In terms of honors societies, if you still have space after making your professional and extracurricular sections as robust as possible, you might as well add them, although I wouldn't expect them to be any sort of real advantage. If you've done or are working on a thesis, you could also add that to the academics section.

[hiltopp01]

work after college = resume expanded

Not necessarily, if OP decides to hold the same jobs..

[KMart]

[SPerez]

If that's your situation, I would definitely add a bullet or two to each of your jobs. You'll have to use your own judgment as to whether those points sound like value-added or like someone stretching to add things to their resume to make it a page long. Remember that examples are just examples (and at least for Harvard, most of their applicants likely don't have a problem filling out a resume).

In what you add, follow the usual advice to not just list literal tasks and try to use active words that describe in some way the skills you developed used.

At the end of the day, any additions/changes will only make at most a marginal improvement on your application but if you're trying to squeeze every bit out of it then go ahead. If your situation required that amount of work, which is the reason you weren't more involved on campus, you might also consider writing an addendum to that effect. Just a suggestion.

For the underclassmen reading this, the lesson is to DO STUFF as freshmen, sophomores, etc. so that you don't have a blank resume. Even if you work a lot, you probably still have time to work in volunteering one day every few weeks over the course of 4 years, for example.

Dean Perez
Texas Tech School of Law

[ymmv]

Don't stress about this too much. Your resume has close to zero to do with your chances of successful law school application. If you've got the requisite LSAT/GPA, anything on your resume shy of POTUS is going to have at best a marginal effect.

[TheSpanishMain]

I think the interest/hobbies section is more for OCI resumes (which still feels dumb to me, but enough credible people have told me to do it so I'm convinced) than it is for application resumes. Agree that this is probably not a big deal until you're looking for job. For admissions, LSAT/GPA >>>>>>> resume, unless you have something super interesting and unique on there.

[KMart]

[KMart]

[Mack.Hambleton]

Quick question and I did not want to make a new thread for the matter, strictly because it is semantics:

If I expect to graduate with honors this Spring, should I put that on my resume's education section?

no but u can put current GPA

[KMart]