Close out the New Year by Empowering your Resume

The end of 2016 is upon us, and if you are thinking about "close out" items, you should consider easy and quick "tweaks" to your resume. One way to punch-up or empower your resume is by adding strong and distinctive verbiage to your descriptions of work. We share another resource with you, this article published on Gig.com, containing "75 Action Verbs to Enhance Your Resume". Take a quick look and consider adding one or four of them to your own resume.

Happy editing!

(This post follows our previous posts on "If You are Serious About Putting Your Resume Together"and "An Example of An Awesome Resume".)

Law Admissions Workshop Series - Registration Required

Interested in law school? Admissions deans will be facilitating workshops this SUMMER and FALL for prospective applicants. Information topics will include legal education, the legal profession, and preparing for the process of applying to law school. The events will be held in Atlanta (fall), LA, Chicago, DC, NYC, Silicon Valley on the dates, times, and places indicated below.

Here's the list of participating schools:
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
The University of Chicago Law School
Columbia Law School
Cornell Law School
Duke University School of Law
Georgetown University Law Center
Harvard Law School
The University of Michigan Law School
New York University School of Law
Northwestern University School of Law
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Stanford Law School
University of Virginia School of Law
Yale Law School

Additional details after the break.

APS Data Blog: Milestones School Level Results and Poverty

APS Data Blog: Milestones School Level Results and Poverty: The graph above shows the relationship between 2015 Milestones results and poverty and Limited English Proficiency (LEP) status in Atlanta Public School district. 

Quick Analysis

Based on the analysis provided by APS, you'll see that the data can be broken down for elementary and middle schools, and includes data for Atlanta's charter school populations. In addition to APS's findings, you can see that many traditional school are out-performing their "expected" test score performance (average, from regression line) given their "challenges" (defined therein by two indicators: (1) free and reduced lunch, (2) and limited language proficiency). The same is true for charter schools (however, notably, some charters -- 8 of 11 for elementary, 5 of 11 for middle -- fall below expected performance levels). The schools performing above expected levels are located throughout the district, including the southern parts of APS.

Atlanta Judge Creates Opportunity for High School Girls

Atlanta-area high school girls have an opportunity to participate in a summer program that would expose them to the criminal and civil justice systems.  

​The Honorable Stacey K. Hydrick, DeKalb County State Court (in Georgia), has announced the opening of applications for her 5th Annual S.M.I.L.E. (Summer Mentoring Initiative in Legal Education) Program.

Application deadline is April 15, 2016.

More details below the break...

Summer Program Opportunity for New Orleans Youth

Know a student in New Orleans, grades 6-12? 

The Harvard Black Alumni Society is sponsoring a summer program opportunity for youth in the New Orleans metro area. 

Here's more information:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VfRjSXyxpAXA9biRWOo0ABbVFNuD8Kr13S_RroA4do4/edit

Deadline appears to be March 15.

If you have questions, feel free to follow-up with the contact listed. And remember, our consultants are happy to take on new clients to review resumes and application packages.