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INTRODUCTION 1  \nII. FORMAT AND STYLE 1  \nA. Avoid Résumé Templates & Do Not Trust AI 1  \nB. Font 2  \nC. Paper 2  \nD. Margins 2  \nE. Page Length 2  \nF. Reverse Chronological Order 2  \nG. Proofread 2  \nIII. BASIC OUTLINE 3  \nA. Heading 3  \nB. Education 3  \n1. Guidelines for Law School Class Rank and GPA 3  \n2. Rounding Up GPA and Class Rank 3  \n3. Grade Improvement 4  \n4. False or Misleading Information 4  \n5. Part-time/Full-time Program 4  \n6. Awards, Honors, and Activities 4  \n7. High School 5  \nC. Publications 5  \nD. Experience 5  \n1. Headings 5  \n2. Describing the Position 6  \n3. Presenting Employment History 7  \nE. Interests, Hobbies, Special Skills, Language Proficiency, 8  \nCommunity and Other Activities  \nF. Professional Associations 8  \nIV. ITEMS YOU SHOULD NOT INCLUDE 8  \nA. Career Objective 8  \nB. Summary of Qualities 8  \nC. References 9  \nD. Skills 9  \nV. MISCELLANEOUS 9  \nA. Confidentiality 9  \nB. Try to Avoid Gaps in Chronology 9  \nC. Post-Law School Résumé : Experience First 9  \nAPPENDIX A: Résumé Review Policy 10  \nAPPENDIX B: Sample Résumés 11-21  \nI. INTRODUCTION  \nYour résumé is the foundation of every application you submit. When done well, a résumé is a brief, focused, dynamic marketing tool that is customized to convey your key credentials to targeted employers. A résumé generally has two critical functions: 1. to interest prospective employers sufficiently enough to generate offers for you to interview, and 2. to invite and direct conversations during your interviews. Your résumé is important, and the time you spend crafting it should reflect this.  \nYour résumé represents you; it speaks to the reader in terms of its content and its appearance. Judgments will be made about you as a candidate based upon the physical appearance of your résumé . Many employers will summarily discard résumés that contain typos, spelling errors, formatting issues, and/or are saved in an electronic file source that isn’t accessible or alters formatting. An employer’s concern is that if you do not care enough to invest in preparing and delivering a high-quality document that effectively markets your candidacy you will be similarly complacent in completing assignments. Many legal employers receive several hundred résumés for a single position. A poorly prepared résumé provides an easy reason for an employer to eliminate a candidate.  \nII. FORMAT AND STYLE  \nThe legal profession has standards for résumé format and style, as detailed and demonstrated throughout this guide. Your résumé must meet expectations. A prospective employer may not give more than 30 seconds to reviewing your résumé . The document must be designed to focus the reader’s attention on relevant information.  \nYou are marketing yourself as a professional, so your résumé should appear professional. Most often you will provide your résumé electronically as an attached document or through an online application system. Save your résumé as a PDF and confirm retention of formatting prior to submitting the document electronically. If you are submitting a hard copy of your résumé, it should be prepared using a computer and printed on specialty résumé paper using a quality printer. Generally, you should avoid abbreviations. Permissible abbreviations include state names and college degrees. An example where you should avoid abbreviation is the word“memos,” as it should be written out as memorandums or memoranda.  \nA. Avoid Résumé Templates & Do Not Trust AI  \nTemplates and their forced construction undermine one of the basic rules of résumé construction: Your experiences, your information, and the specific audience of your résumé should dictate the and form structure of the document. Templates function in the converse. 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