Why It Pays To Network With Advertising Specialties? The first thing one would rightly ask is, what are advertising specialties? Many people, particularly those who have not used specialties, might not recognize them by their correct name. The imprinted promotional products industry has a minor identity problem. Specialties have been called premiums, souvenirs, give always, and even advertising gimmicks. (62 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)
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)
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)
A Legal Secretary’s Job Hunt Guide Summary: This article describes the legal secretary job search process, from the first written plan to interviews and offers. (55 views)
Get Equipped for Legal Network As with all major projects, the right tools can make a difference—so the right networking tools will yield the best results. Nothing projects professionalism and competence better than being organized and prepared, and there are a few tools you can use to help you make the most of your networking efforts. Just as you wouldn’t build a house with only a hammer, you’ll... (55 views)
5 Things Job Applicants Do That Annoy Legal Hiring Managers With employers being flooded with candidates for any job they post, it's more important than ever to make sure you understand how your behavior may look on the other side of the hiring desk. Here are my top five pet peeves that I see over and over from job applicants. (52 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)
Minimizing Job Change Risk for Legal Secretaries In what may be a little-known fact, many legal secretaries have no hang-ups about changing jobs. This article explains what you can do to ensure you have the same experience. (49 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)
Optimizing your LinkedIn Profile for the Legal Job Search Of all the social networks, LinkedIn is the most important when it comes to presenting yourself professionally to potential legal employers and recruiters. Although it may seem tedious and awkward at first, investing time and energy into your LinkedIn profile as you would a job application; helps build your online presence among 175 million job seekers and professionals.... (47 views)
Cultivate The Habit Of Listening. It’s Vital For Success Communication is obviously a two-way process. You write, someone reads. Someone speaks, you listen. You speak someone listens. However, simple as it sounds, this is not always true or at least not fully true. (45 views)
Additional Job Hunting Resources For Paralegals NETWORKING YOUR WAY TO A JOB-THE HIDDEN JOB MARKET It's a well-known secret. Everyone talks about it: job seekers, job counselors, job placement directors, even those on the job. You'll hear it over and over: "One of the most effective tools you'll ever have is your network." (40 views)
The Art Of Public Relations Networking Public relations is the ability to promote your products or services and sell them through mediums that don’t cost money and yet are as effective as paid advertisements. It is said that he who whistles down a well, about the goods he has to sell, will never glean the golden dollars, as he who scales the heights and hollers. (38 views)
Typical Paralegal Opportunities in City Governments City governments are often major employers of paralegals. If you live in a major city and are interested in working in the public sector, city government can offer excellent employment opportunities. The primary areas where a paralegal may work in the city attorney's office are in torts, general litigation, and commercial litigation. (36 views)
Role of Contacts in Paralegal Job Search To make your job search in paralegal world fruitful, you should see to it that you should not stick to contacts that did not give you any benefit. You will stand a chance of getting a job if you judiciously make new contacts. Any seminar in insurance sales will tell you that sales success is a matter of simple arithmetic. The phrase you hear in these seminars is, "It's a... (36 views)
Faith-Based Networking In Places Of Worship Places of worship are great places for building networks, be it a church, a temple, a mosque or any other belief-based house of worship. These are places where you will not only meet your old friends, but are likely to meet new people, every time you go there. Religion is an authoritative unifying force – the congregation at any religious ceremony or service feels a bond... (35 views)
International Business Law Jobs Abroad: Global Opportunities for Legal Staff In the midst of globalization, many paralegals and legal assistants are finding challenging and rewarding positions in the field of international business law. American companies are increasingly interested in doing business abroad, and foreign corporations are also bringing their products and services here. (34 views)
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, skilled, managerial, and professional. However, looking for a professional job is somewhat different from looking for most nonprofessional jobs. These differences are a matter of degree rather than of change in procedure, but they do deserve some attention. (31 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)
The Art Of Selling Through Multi-Level Networking If you have to pinpoint one prime aspect of networking and what does it really boil down to, it is probably selling. Networking to sell a product or service is probably the most recognized and most often used form of this specialized communications process. (31 views)
How to Find Legal Employment Legal employment is not always easy to find, as it is an extremely competitive career to get involved with. Many law jobs require years of education and the majority of these firms are looking for people who already have some sort of experience in the field. With that being said, you might be able to find some entry-level legal jobs in your area, depending on the type of... (29 views)
Guides and Resources for Paralegal Staffing Organizations Staffing organizations, formerly called employment agencies, are big business today, particularly in a thriving economy where the unemployment rate is low. (29 views)
Importance of Letter Writing In Networking One of the most important things we learn in school is how to communicate. It is a skill that is absolutely essential to your success, no matter what career path you follow. Despite the dramatic innovations in technology - laser beams, fiber optics, memory chips, satellites, etc. that are changing the way in which we communicate, the written word is still important and... (28 views)
Legal Careers: Job Opportunities in the United States for Attorneys, Paralegals and Law Graduates This week, LawCrossing takes a look at some of the jobs in the legal field: what's out there currently and what to expect in the upcoming year. The situation continues to look good for paralegals, court reporters, and even IT professionals in the legal industry. (27 views)
Unwinding from the gruelling legal jobs through social networking or simple chat If you work in any kind of firm, company, or office, talk of happy hour will come up from time to time. Happy hour may even be the social event of the week. Emails are sent, conversations are had, and plans are established; for a couple of hours or perhaps the whole night, the drinking and chatting session is scheduled into every staff member's BlackBerry. (27 views)
Finding and Holding on to Good Bankruptcy Legal Secretary Jobs There are so many different types of jobs that you might consider doing, and often the most important part for you is going to be making sure that no matter what happens, you have a job that works well for you, and a job that is going to allow you to get even more out of your education and out of the experiences that you have had. Therefore, when you are looking at good... (27 views)
Finding the Paralegal job You Want For paralegal job seekers 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. A good opening strategy is to decide that you are not going to ignore... (27 views)
Paralegal Recruitment If you're interested in a career as a paralegal, you shouldn't have a difficult time finding a job. Finding a legitimate paralegal recruitment website is your best bet for finding a job quickly. Paralegals serve as one of the many very important foundations of the legal system. They are always on the front lines, communicating with various legal staff, clients, answering... (26 views)
Succeeding in a Judicial Clerkship Summary: The application process can be daunting, but if you take it one step at a time and focus on putting your best foot forward, you'll end up exactly where you want to be - with a great job offer in hand. And once you have that job offer, the hard work isn't over yet. Be sure to take some time to celebrate your accomplishment, but then get ready for the next... (25 views)