The Lawyer's Personal Brand · glossary

Employer line

One line on a CV that says what an employer is: how big, for whom and where. Tess’s reads “a 40-partner law firm acting for owner-managed and family businesses in the North West”. A recruiter who has never heard of the firm learns it in one breath. File 2.4 · Chapter 3 · see CV summary section; Recruiter, in-house

Explained in Chapter 3, A CV for Someone Who Has Never Met a Lawyer, of The Lawyer's Personal Brand.

How it comes up, in Chapter 3
Most CVs give the firm's name and assume the reader will be impressed. Ledgerline's recruiter has never heard of Fenwick Rowe, and should not need to. So each employer gets an employer line: how big it is, whom it acts for and where.
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