Resume Tips for Those Pursuing a Career in Patent Law
The Purpose of Your Resume
Your resume is an important tool that communicates who you are. When it does the job right, you win an interview.
Your resume doesn't simply provide a prospective employer with your work history. It speaks loud and clear that you have the credentials needed to be a complete success as a patent professional.
Your resume will attract immediate attention. The reader will want to pick it up and read it top to bottom. Interest will be stimulated. An interview will be arranged.
Your resume will contain:
- Your contact information, i.e. name, address, phone, email address, website address (if you have one)
- A defined job objective (optional)
- A work history
- Educational history
- Affiliations
- References
You should always use professional grade printing and paper for your resume.
Resume Presentation is Key
An employer can have hundreds of boring resumes to pour through. This means your resume must really pop out!
Your resume must impress within the first few seconds or it will not impress at all. Studies have shown that your resume will be glanced at for about 10 seconds. That’s all it takes.
So to write a really effective resume, you must use powerful statements that impress. This is very important, but, do take care not to oversell yourself.
Above all, you will make honest statements about yourself. These must be strong, 100% true statements, or they will not be effective.
Just as you would sell any product that you believe strongly in, you will learn to sell yourself. Once you have learned to do this, you will find that you will get a better response from a prospective employer than other prospects do (even those with better credentials). It is all in how you market yourself!
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