Take the Elevator to Success Ed Bobrow's company specializes in marketing and marketing management to such clients as Honeywell, Dow Corning, Gillette and Norelco. (3 views)
Postcards from Kathmandu Ray Jutkins is an unusual and exciting speaker, seminar leader writer and ad man. But most important of all, he is a great networker. (8 views)
Be Technical with High Tech Networking Don Crescimanno started as a salesperson in the computer business in 1966 when, in Don's words, "computers were doing only very boring stuff - payrolls, taxes, massive inventories and scientific projects." (60 views)
Networking: Not Just Through Computers Ray Wells has been networking all of his working life. As a young and struggling architect he appreciated the need for a wide circle of acquaintances. It enabled him to expand the opportunities for contacts that would lead to assignments. (2 views)
Paradigms of Paralegal Resumes and Paralegal Job Search The truly prepared paralegal about to engage in the effective paralegal job search will have the ability to "stylize" resumes. This is nothing more than taking a basic resume, which should be saved on a diskette, and making adjustments so that a differently targeted resume can be produced within a day. (295 views)
Potential Problems While Drafting a Paralegal Resume If you have potential problems in your background, such as gaps or jobs that you do not wish to draw attention to, then grapple with these issues in the "hard chronology." Each should be dealt with independently so that different approaches can be utilized. Some choose to avoid explanation. This approach lets the interviewer "discover" the gap or other problem. Some choose... (50 views)
Polishing Up Your Legal Networking Skills In recent years, the concept of networking has become increasingly popular as it relates to job finding, career counseling, and support systems. To understand how networking operates, visualize a series of linkages or connections that leads to other connections. That's what networking is all about: developing connections or contacts that might be able to open some doors... (10 views)
Paralegal Job Search Plan: Objectives, Resources, Networking & Record Keeping There are number of books, articles and even blogs has been published with reference to interview techniques like what you have to offer an employer and how to do the paper work, including your skills assessment, resume, and cover letter-all in preparation for the interview. But unless you have a strategy for finding job opportunities, all that work will not help you. Your... (98 views)
The Four Top Enemies of a Paralegal Job Seeker Because hiring is both subjective and objective, much of interviewing is out of our control. New paralegals must say: "I can affect certain things in this interviewing process, and there are many things I cannot affect. I am going to affect what I can affect." The stage, the dialogue, the plot are all fairly predictable; the most important variable is your performance. It... (11 views)
Changing the Fortune of Your Paralegal Job Hunt Who does not want good fortune? Americans are crazy about lotteries for a basic human reason: A part of us, however small and unconscious it might be, wishes for a sudden external act to lift us high above our daily life. When we are looking for a job, that seed can flower into a full-blown shade tree. The job search and our personal situation blend together to make us... (14 views)
Do Not Neglect Sole Practitioner Lawyers When Looking for a Paralegal Job Do not think of a sole practitioner as a "country lawyer." Avoid assumptions about where the attorney comes from or whether the practice has the "sophistication" of a large firm. It is best to meet sole practitioners as you find them and respond to their stated needs. A sole practitioner might have left a large firm because of a desire for independence and being one's own... (75 views)
How to Get those Hidden Paralegal Jobs Strategies and first moves after graduation lead one naturally to a discussion about how to approach the advertised market and the unadvertised or "hidden" job market. Various studies have put the "hidden market" at 70-80 percent of the existing market for any given profession. (57 views)
The HUSTLE Principles for Getting a Paralegal Job Interview The final strategy in a job hunt has to do with the quality of your effort. Very little of this comes naturally, unless you are a natural hustler. The first spirit of America is fierce independence. The fiercely independent declared that without the shackles of the old world binding a person to a state or class, an individual by dint of competition, energy, drive, and... (309 views)
Going for Paralegal Jobs at Large Law Firms How does an entry paralegal get into a large firm? Network through a friend, or the relative of a firm member, or the friend of a friend, or relative of an associate. Sometimes large firms go through agencies so that they do not have to interview until the end of the process. One entry paralegal got on with a large firm through a skiing club. (1278 views)
Effective Strategies for Getting a Paralegal Job You must think of yourself as employed when you are looking for a job. You are, in effect, working for yourself. When you look for a job, your employer is you, your paymaster is the future, and your profession is "effective job seeker." In reality, if you are doing it right, you are anything but unemployed when you are "unemployed." If you view this task as an occasional... (185 views)
Why Paralegals Need to Know about Small Firms before Applying for a Job The small and midsize firm does not generally have the fixed corporate policies of large firms. It is here that you, as a future paralegal, will discover the widest range of existing attitudes and philosophies about paralegal roles. One firm will value its paralegals because they are heavily used in client contact, others use their paralegals in case management. Still... (89 views)
Being Politically Correct on a Paralegal Job Hunt Certain practice areas lend themselves to large documentation, while others present you with more client contact. We have not yet discussed how personal politics or viewpoints might affect your hiring. While no one should ask your political allegiance or party affiliation, there is something to note as you conduct your job search campaign. Out there in the rough and tumble... (66 views)
Tips for Approaching Small Law Firms for Paralegal Jobs Strategies for appealing to small and midsize firms vary according to practice area and the firms' internal organizational structure. From the first contact to the last interview, the challenge for the aspiring paralegal is to be informed about the law firm, so let's look at the internal organizational structure of these firms. (176 views)
Bagging a Paralegal Job with a Sole Practitioner Strategies that work with sole practitioners are ones that demonstrate an understanding of their particular world. The world of the sole practitioner is different from the lawyer in the large firm. Same profession, different lives. The sole practitioner must worry about the business end of the practice, so the more accounting, balancing, bookkeeping, and/or cash handling... (241 views)
Why Job Hunting for Paralegals is Different than Others Effective job strategies and "first moves" that get attention are invaluable for some very obvious reasons. It helps to rehearse, though, because looking for a job is the most difficult and arduous task most people can imagine. (213 views)
Matching Job Expectations to Job Realities for a Paralegal Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind. Seneca (4 B.C.-65 A.D.) (527 views)
Getting to Work as a Paralegal A number of career alternatives are open to a paralegal, from getting a job under and employer to alternative career tracks. In the first part of this article, we briefly mention alternative career tracks to a full job, and in the second part, we talk about finding your first job as a paralegal. (47 views)
Marketing Yourself as a Freelance Paralegal You know you're a talented paralegal, that you're resourceful, reliable and experienced. To be a success as a freelancer, you'll have to find ways to let your future clients know this too. And that means you'll have to sell your paralegal skills. In fact, your talents as a self-marketer are as important to your success as your expertise as a paralegal. (4961 views)
Sample Job Advertisements to Give You an Idea of the Paralegal Profession This article describes a few sample paralegal job advertisements to give a clear conception about real job functions of a paralegal. (3062 views)
What Will Lead to a Paralegal Job? Maximum effort is necessary because you never know what is going to work! Ask the woman in Lincoln about the original 92 letters she sent out. Ask her if 75 would have worked, or just 20. She cannot know. (13 views)
Elements of the Job Hunt Your particular stage in life is not as important as your awareness of the need to use the right vocabulary and have the right approach in the legal job search process. In addition to all the techniques and approaches that are particular to the legal job hunt, there are the invigorating challenges of the job hunt itself. It is in our first moves that the job hunt's success... (31 views)
Winning Search Strategies for Paralegal Jobs Effective job strategies and "first moves'' that get attention are invaluable for some very obvious reasons. It helps to rehearse, though, because looking for a paralegal job is the most difficult and arduous task most people can imagine. Public speaking is said to be number one on most individuals' "fear list/' and being unemployed is most likely number one on their... (84 views)
Get the Legal Job That You Desire Cover letters and resumes are sales techniques designed to pro mote applicants to employers through their knowledge of the industry, company, or organization, and job responsibilities. Interviews are the candidates' in-person sales opportunity. What are candidates' selling? Themselves. When you seek employment, you must sell yourself to the employer. As an entry-level... (6 views)
How Prior Employment Can Help You in Your Legal Employment Prior employment, even in a non-law-related career, provides legal professionals with greater maturity to handle the rigors of legal employment. By having experience or training in a trade, you can claim that you are particularly suited for any related legal field. Here is a sample of not necessarily law-related trades that, for the most part, can be learned at a... (61 views)
Finding the Paralegal Role that Fits You Defining your role as a paralegal: Paralegals handle paperwork, organize the office, maintain and update client files, monitor the calendar, and research, write, and read. They serve as a liaison with clients, witnesses, other case participants, and outside professionals by gathering and imparting information. They meet, inform, interview, and prod to action. In addition... (22 views)