rate my resume!

[ElFenix]

a bit sparse, i think i should be more wordy


Objective
Pursuit of a Doctorate of Jurisprudence


Education
1997 - 2001 The University of Texas at Austin
Bachelor of Arts; Economics, Government, History·
Major coursework including economic theory, international relations, and social revolutions


Volunteer experience
9/1999 ? 5/2001
Association for Computing Machinery, UT Chapter ·
As an officer implemented a mentoring program to help new members into the ACM· Responsible for planning the ACM?s semester retreats to Taos, NM, and New Orleans, LA

8/1999 ? 5/2000
Texas Union Council, Marketing Committee·
Planned and executed the Council?s fall and spring Recruitment Rallies.


Employment
3/2002 ? 11/2002
Spherion Atlantic Enterprises, LLC Austin, TX
Dell Software and Peripherals Sales Consultant·
Inside Sales for Dell Computers· Positioning products to meet both customers? and Dell?s needs

12/1999 ? 1/2000
VarsityBooks Austin, TX
Direct Marketer· Distributing materials to students and improving awareness of VarsityBooks


Languages
Completed undergraduate requirement for Spanish, including 16 semester-hours of coursework, for the University of Texas at Austin


Awards received
Academic Decathlon National Champion
Texas Union Council Outstanding Member

 

[Omegachi]

nicee

 

[Aceshigh]

Hi, what was your Bachelors in? Do you have 3 majors? it was a little hard for me to tell what your major course of study was for your BA. Everything else looks pretty good to me.

 

[rpc64]

Academic Decathlon National champ eh? Awesome. I was in my school's decathlon. Had a lot of fun. We only made it to state though...
Edit: spelling

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Aceshigh
Hi, what was your Bachelors in? Do you have 3 majors? it was a little hard for me to tell what your major course of study was for your BA. Everything else looks pretty good to me.

i had 3 majors 🙂

 

[Steve819]

No GPA listed? No additional skills developed that relate to the pursuit of the JD?

Steve

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: rpc64
Academic Decathalon National champ eh? Awesome. I was in my school's decathlon. Had a lot of fun. We only made it to state though...

state was harder than nats 🙂 (more competitive teams at state)

 

[Aceshigh]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: Aceshigh
Hi, what was your Bachelors in? Do you have 3 majors? it was a little hard for me to tell what your major course of study was for your BA. Everything else looks pretty good to me.

i had 3 majors 🙂

Wow, thats pretty impressive to me.

 

[rpc64]

Yes state was hard for us too. We 0wned regionals though

 

[flavio]

What is:

Direct Marketer· Distributing materials to students and improving awareness of VarsityBooks

"distributing materials to students" sounds pretty weird.

You've only had two jobs ever?

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Steve819
No GPA listed? No additional skills developed that relate to the pursuit of the JD?

Steve

GPA is included on my transcript, which they will have
as for additional skills, they don't really ask for that in the application... my academic record and test scores speak for themselves. problem solving was done with the events and the programs... "life experiences" might help but thats more for my personal statement...

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: flavio
What is:

Direct Marketer· Distributing materials to students and improving awareness of VarsityBooks

"distributing materials to students" sounds pretty weird.

You've only had two jobs ever?

handing out flyers 😱
yeah 🙁

i think i should take out the vbooks part... it wasn't significant...

 

[xuanman]

you probably don't need the Objective part if you're sending the resume to law schools along with your application package. this will leave more space for you to expound upon your other activities. if you've written a thesis or anything like that, you might want to add that as law schools tend to like academic credentials like that.

 

[melly]

Originally posted by: xuanmanyou probably don't need the Objective part if you're sending the resume to law schools along with your application package. this will leave more space for you to expound upon your other activities. if you've written a thesis or anything like that, you might want to add that as law schools tend to like academic credentials like that.

You're sadly mistaken. The Objective is the main focus. Never leave that out.

BTW, ElFenix, impressive education! I'm not rating it, though. You didn't say "Simon Says". 😛

 

[xuanman]

Originally posted by: caramel

Originally posted by: xuanmanyou probably don't need the Objective part if you're sending the resume to law schools along with your application package. this will leave more space for you to expound upon your other activities. if you've written a thesis or anything like that, you might want to add that as law schools tend to like academic credentials like that.

You're sadly mistaken. The Objective is the main focus. Never leave that out.

BTW, ElFenix, impressive education! I'm not rating it, though. You didn't say "Simon Says". 😛

actually, no. applying to law school is not like applying for a job. when you send your application to a law school, they already know that your objective is to get into law school. why else are you sending the application, why else did you take the lsat, and why in the world are you paying those overpriced LSDAS fees? the objective is important, but that should go on the Personal Statement, not the resume where it takes up valuable space.

<-- law student who sits on the admissions committee

 

[flavio]

actually, no. applying to law school is not like applying for a job. when you send your application to a law school, they already know that your objective is to get into law school. why else are you sending the application, why else did you take the lsat, and why in the world are you paying those overpriced LSDAS fees? the objective is important, but that should go on the Personal Statement, not the resume where it takes up valuable space.

Objectives when applying for a job are useless as well. They are never anything but tired cliches and I'm glad to see the trend heading towards leaving them out.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: xuanman
actually, no. applying to law school is not like applying for a job. when you send your application to a law school, they already know that your objective is to get into law school. why else are you sending the application, why else did you take the lsat, and why in the world are you paying those overpriced LSDAS fees? the objective is important, but that should go on the Personal Statement, not the resume where it takes up valuable space.

<-- law student who sits on the admissions committee

true that... i do have 3 pages that i can fill up though... think i should get rid of the vbooks thing? i think its kinda weak. go into detail about the extracuriculars?

(LSDAS is overpriced... its a glorified digital copier service)

 

[xuanman]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: xuanman
actually, no. applying to law school is not like applying for a job. when you send your application to a law school, they already know that your objective is to get into law school. why else are you sending the application, why else did you take the lsat, and why in the world are you paying those overpriced LSDAS fees? the objective is important, but that should go on the Personal Statement, not the resume where it takes up valuable space.

<-- law student who sits on the admissions committee

true that... i do have 3 pages that i can fill up though... think i should get rid of the vbooks thing? i think its kinda weak. go into detail about the extracuriculars?

(LSDAS is overpriced... its a glorified digital copier service)

i think i would recommend that you keep the vbooks thing and try to flesh out the other experiences you thought were most important to you. try approaching it like this: you want to "sell" yourself to these law schools by building some sort of interesting/cohesive story, so ideally you want your personal statement to build upon what you have in your resume. That's not a hard-line rule though. If you want to write a "why i want to save the world" type personal statement, that's great, especially if that's what you really want to do. However, I think it might be easier if you build your statement on your resume by maybe talking about your interest in economics/business/marketing and the interrelationship with law or something like that. good luck!