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Resume Tips

Congrats on the bar takers for finishing (unless you're still on the phone with ExamSoft).  And now for something completely different.

Year in and year out, people list "Travel" or some variation of it as an "Interest" on their resumes.  The priceless Disco Stu (whose prior OCIP tips are here), has the following gchat status this morning, with which I could not agree more:

I wish people would stop listing "travel" as an interest on their resume. "Oh, you like vacationing in the Caribbean do you, what a unique and intriguing tidbit of individuality. Do you also enjoy cash?"

I am mentioning this in part in jest, but in part seriously.  We rarely think about the collection of resumes that attorneys and recruiters see during interview season.  And believe me, a lot of you list travel as an interest.  So, I would strongly suggest all the 2Ls getting ready for OCIP to carefully think about any interests they may have listed on the resume and eliminate any that are actually fairly generic and hardly reflective of your individuality.  

Full post as published by Nuts & Boalts on July 30, 2010 (boomark / email).