Put your PI work at the top of your resume

Your resume is getting scanned for relevancy, and if you're lucky you get 1-2 minutes, often it's sub 30.

They scan for the vocabulary of the work — Jones Act, maritime, trucking, wrongful death, settlements, verdicts. If those words sit in paragraph four, they don't count.

This is where attorneys with real PI experience in non-traditional roles get filtered out. The government fraud job is your current title. Administrative litigation fills your days. The PI caseload — ten files, settlements, depositions you actually took — sits below the work that defines your title.

Move it up. Lead with it in your summary. Put it in your headliner as if you were running an ad to be the answer to their problem. Use internal PI language (without being long winded) where possible. Specificity of case value/type/volume are all great.

Fortunately, when you work with us, we work directly with the partners — and we tell them all about your PI experience, regardless of where it sits on your resume.

Current PI openings include:

• Pre-Lit Plaintiff PI Attorney — Savannah

• See all current attorney roles