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How Should a Legal Professional’s Approach to Government Offices Be

published February 11, 2013

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The approach to government agencies, legislative offices, and public organizations varies slightly from the approach to private law firms and corporations. "Badgering" - the constant inquiry of status and announcement of desire for employment - is a technique more suited to government and public organizations than to private organizations, due to a relatively objective pattern of hiring in government agencies and public organizations and to a peculiarly subjective, partisan hiring pattern in legislative offices. In addition, hiring goals and projections often change more rapidly in public than in private organizations. The nature of public hiring invites constant badgering of pertinent offices to ascertain availability of new openings and the status of your application.

Numbers of applicants so greatly exceed numbers of positions in public organizations that sheer persistence often pares down the numbers - those who "badger" survive. Make contact weekly by telephone if you are not in the vicinity of the public organizations. Contact in person, a few times weekly, legislative offices and government agencies if you live in that city. Always attempt to contact the lawyer or other person responsible for hiring dispositions, and use fully receptionists and secretaries. The staff will learn to recognize your voice or your face and, if played with the right balance of grit and helplessness, might inform you of openings not yet made public and provide access to the "right" people to streamline the process.


The badger technique is not well-suited to private organizations be-cause you can ruin your carefully wrought professional presentation with little chance of positive gain. Hiring as a science is more regularized in private organizations, which do not suffer as often as public entities the uncertainties of transiency in the work force. "Badgering" private organizations will not often produce the unexpected match of lucky timing and a new opening, and is more likely to produce detrimental results.


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published February 11, 2013

By CEO and Founder - BCG Attorney Search left
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