Internship or work experience is an important part of an applicant's resume for the position of a lawyer. The employer's decision on hiring may depend on how competently it is written. How to arrange it correctly?
Instructions
Step 1
In your resume, highlight work experience in a separate paragraph. Better to put it after your education information.
Step 2
List your previous jobs in sequence, starting with the very first. Write the names of organizations in full, avoid abbreviations. It is important for a potential employer to understand the profile of the company, since in many ways it determines the specifics of a lawyer's work. If you have worked for an individual entrepreneur in the past, it would be useful to indicate the area of his activity, for example, "retail trade" or "the provision of real estate services."
Step 3
For each organization or individual entrepreneur with whom you were in an employment relationship, provide the start and end date of work. When writing dates, you do not need to specify the date - it is enough to indicate the month and year.
Step 4
Define the terms of reference for each job site listed. This will allow the potential employer to determine in which areas of legal activity you have gained experience. Do not ascribe too much to yourself, because if you have a certain practice, they will expect you to perform such work without error. Otherwise, you risk earning a reputation as a bad specialist.
Step 5
If you have experience working in the legal profession without formalizing an employment contract, for example, you collaborated as a volunteer in a legal clinic, mention this as well.
Step 6
Some positions imply the presence of additional skills in addition to the actual knowledge of legislation and the ability to resolve situations from a legal point of view. In this case, it is appropriate to indicate the experience of work other than legal work in the resume. For example, if you happen to work as a translator, economist, project manager, sometimes this can be a decisive factor.
