Selling Yourself for Your Next Legal Job
The statement, "You are unique," may not strike you as particularly profound. Of course you are unique; you...
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How Lawyers Need to Go About Job Hunting
Successful job hunting requires a set of skills which, once learnt, can be used repeatedly throughout your...
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Where to Look for Help in Your Legal Job Search
The placement office at the law school is not the only place to get assistance in your job search. Personal...
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Psychology of the Legal Job Search
A job search can be lonely if for no other reason than that you are putting yourself on the line. The...
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Final Steps in Career Planning
The final steps in the career planning process involve establishing priorities and developing a timetable for...
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Career Planning – An Overview
A story about the late Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes may have some relevance for law students...
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The Importance of Work Experience before Joining Law School
Law school is a very, very serious investment of time and money. It takes some time in a work environment to...
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The Real World As Referred In the World of Law School
The world of work, often referred to in law school as "the real world" (as if law school were some kind of...
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How Lawyers Can Cope With Rejection in Interviews
You have spent the weeks following your office visit in a state of anxious anticipation. Then, one day the...
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Law Students Need to Make Informed Choices About Practice Areas
Law students fall into two major groups when it comes to choosing significant or substantive areas of...
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Why and How Lawyers Need to Sell Themselves to Promote their Legal Careers
The statement, "You are unique," may not strike you as particularly profound. Of course you are unique; you...
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Legal Job Hunting Strategies
Much of the literature in the career planning and placement field fails to offer alternatives to traditional...
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The Role of Networking in Your Legal Career
The term networking is sometimes overused and often misunderstood. Some people think that networking merely...
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Research Your Legal Employer Thoroughly
As you may have gathered by now, finding a job involves a lot more effort than merely showing up for an...
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Acquiring Work as a Paralegal: Finding Your First Job
Securing your first job as a paralegal will be fairly easy if you have graduated from a reputable paralegal...
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Preparing for a Full-scale Job Search
Before you start looking offline for a job, there are several things you can do that can get you off to a good...
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Create a Job Leads Form to Simplify Your Search
A problem that frequently arises during a job search is having to keep track of the incidental pieces of...
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Bypassing HR and Personnel Departments in a Job Search
It isn't hard to apply for a job at a small company. Simply ask to speak to the manager or owner. This person...
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Overcomng Inhibitions Preventing Friends From Helping in Our Job Search
One reason why job seekers may be reluctant to ask friends or acquaintances for assistance is the feeling that...
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Preparing Yourself for a Future Job Search
No job is guaranteed to be permanent. In fact, very few people remain in the same job for the same employer...
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Using the Job Club Approach to Find a New Job
The Job-Club approach to finding a job works for a broad range of jobs, including unskilled, semiskilled,...
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Contacting Previous Employers for Jobs and Job Leads
From the Job-Club point of view, a previous employer can offer especially valuable assistance in your job...
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Preparing for a Paralegal Job Search
A paralegal job search is a little like a baseball game. You're the batter; the prospective law firm is the ...
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How To Get Paralegal Work Online
We never thought we'd see the day when we welcomed a mouse into the house. Yet, mouse, modem, monitor-the...
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Seven Tips For Paralegals In A Job Search
Congratulations! You've passed the Gatekeeper! Now you're presented with the opportunity to get in and sell...
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Investigating the Legal Job Market
THE LAW-JOB SEARCH BEGINS WITH INFORMATION-GATHERING. Assemble as much information about your areas of...
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Female Law Students and the Legal Job Search
WOMEN MAY HAVE LOST SOMEWHAT THE COMPETITIVE ADVAN-tage gained during the last ten years from the "reverse...
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Secretaries as a Resource During Your Legal Job Search
THESE PEOPLE ARE VERY USEFUL DURING THE LAW JOB HUNT. THEY can also serve as enormous obstacles. Luck and some...
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Your First-Year Law Student Job Search Time Table
The banker Walter Wristen once said that good judgment comes from experience and that experience comes from...
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Your Second-Year Job Search Time Table
The second-year summer internship is probably the most vital stage of the law firm recruiting process. It is...
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