Preparing for Success: Common Legal Staff Interview Questions and Sample Answers Legal staff interviews can be nerve-wracking, but with the right preparation, you can ace your next interview and land your dream job. In this article, we'll cover some common legal staff interview questions and provide sample answers to help you prepare for success. (102 views)
How to Avoid Bringing Salary Up Too Soon in a Legal Job Interview There's no telling when the salary discussion may come up in an interview, but bringing up your desired salary too soon could be a risky move. It's important that you are able to present yourself, your abilities, and what you can contribute to the company before your price tag. (32 views)
How To Bomb Your Legal Interview In 10 Minutes Ever wonder why you don’t get a call back after what you thought was a “great” interview? (695 views)
Listen Up: How to Use Your Ears in a Legal Job Interview Plenty of law students spend their time in the back of a classroom, tuning in and out of hour-long lectures. While this may be good for catching up on sleep, it does nothing to hone your listening skills. In fact, it’s quite the opposite of the kind of listening needed to ace an interview. (28 views)
Thinking of Sending a Thank You Gift to a Law Firm After an Interview? It’s a given that you should always send a heartfelt thank you note after a legal interview, but it’s also possible to express a little too much gratitude. Sending in a flower bouquet after an interview may be a little too extreme…however, sending a thank you note via email with 24 hours after your interview is a must! (332 views)
How to Nail a Legal Interview You've snagged an interview at the most prestigious law firm. Now what? Here, top recruiters, career consultants, and even shrinks offer shrewd tips and subtle tricks for moving from "How do you do?" to "When can you start?" (71 views)
How Can A Legal Applicant Bomb an Interview In 10 Minutes Ever wonder why you don’t get a call back after what you thought was a “great” interview? (52 views)
Finish Strong: End Your Legal Job Interview on the Right Note In high school, my lacrosse coach used to constantly remind us to “finish strong”—whether we were running sprints, completing a 3-mile run, or ending a game. I can still remember her standing on the sidelines, yelling “Finish strong, ladies!” The point she was trying to make, I think, is that when you’re in the home stretch, you shouldn’t wind down—you... (58 views)
The 5 Defining Moments of Every Legal Job Interview In every job interview, there are five “make-it-or-break-it” moments that send the candidate onto the next round of interviews, possibly even a job offer, or to the discard pile. (5 views)
How to Handle "Curve Ball" Questions in a Legal Interview You landed an interview for a legal position you really want. You meet all the stated requirements and you’ve got the requisite experience. You’ve prepared for the interview, nailing down your responses to all the tough questions you expect to be asked. (92 views)
Top 7 Common Behavioral Interview Questions Asked In Legal Interviews More and more, legal employers are asking behavioral questions during interviews to see how candidates would behave when confronted with an issue on the job. Since behavioral interviews are becoming so popular, it’d behoove you to prepare responses for some commonly-asked behavioral interview questions. Here are a few to start off with: (3212 views)
A Comprehensive Paralegal Interview Guide Summary: This article explains the importance of the interview process and details how you can achieve success, from what to wear to negotiating your salary. (143 views)
Qualifying the Paralegal Interview We are faced with a reality that must be acknowledged after considering the basics of your professional package. It is the qualification/disqualification process. (21 views)
Things to Avoid while Giving an Interview Below mentioned are some points that should be taken avoided by the applicants giving interview! (35 views)
Important Tips to be Considered for Paralegal Without opening your mouth, you convey messages and attitudes by how you sit, stand, use your hands. Be sure the message is a positive one and works for you. Here are some tips for doing this: (28 views)
Preparing You for the Interview In preparing yourself for the interview, try to put yourself in the place of the person who will be interviewing you. He or she is interested in finding an employee who can make a contribution to the company, get along with other employees, and promote the image that the company wants to project. In other words, your professional appearance and behavior may single you out... (97 views)
How to Get Hired: The Art of Being Interviewed The word ‘interview’ stems from the French word entre-voir, which means to ''see each other." If we take that meaning one step further, we see in a current English dictionary that the word interview literally means "to see each other mutually." In other words, the scope and purpose of the interview is to find out if the job candidate and potential employer are "right"... (695 views)
Planning the follow-up strategy while confronting an interview! You will probably have some clues as to when the interview is over. The interviewer will either stand or ask if you have any questions about the job. (529 views)
Simple Rules: End of Legal Job Interview Just as the most hazardous parts of an airline flight are the takeoff and the landing, so the most awkward parts of a legal job interview are the beginning (where you are greeting the interviewer and trying to establish a personal rapport with him) and the end (where you are taking your leave and trying to end the interview on a positive note). Here are some simple rules... (19 views)
One-site Interview: How to Deal with Non-lawyer Staff While attending the “one-site” interview, read carefully a few words about those associates on the Committee and the non-lawyer staff person who walks you around from interview to interview. It is very tempting in an "one-site" interview to save your best performances for the partners you are meeting, and "relax" a bit more when talking to the associates. I believe... (19 views)
Conducting Yourself Effectively at Law Job Interviews Appearance and attitude convey an instantaneous impression that can make or break the success of the entire meeting. Interviewers often make unconscious decisions about a candidate during the first minute of the interview. Make that minute count. (24 views)
Understanding the Human Side of a Paralegal Interview A quiet, young woman with excellent grades was worried about the three or four dynamic personalities in her class. "How can I compete against them?" I told her, "You let them do their thing. You just be your best, most enthusiastic self!" She looked hopeful, but disbelieving. I continued, "Talking comes easier for some than others, but good interviewing is not just talking... (146 views)
Five Things You Should Know Before Your Paralegal Interview in a Law Firm Five particular characteristics bear on hiring practices. Once you have worked in the legal environment for a time, these characteristics will just seem like normal descriptions of the professional terrain; when you are new, they can befuddle and confuse you, cause apprehension, and perhaps keep you from getting hired for a job that you really wanted. (1246 views)
A Paralegal Needs to Constantly Improvise to Perform Better at Interviews Keep in mind, if the interviewer appears bored and unfocused, it's your job to make your interview go well. But remember, many legal interviewers take a "show me who you are" approach on purpose; they deliberately throw down the gauntlet to see how the interviewee responds. (8 views)
The Four Parts of a Legal Interview for Paralegals Those who leave the interview to fate seem to think that the interview is just one long series of questions and answers. The winning presentations are most often given by paralegals who understand the basic structure of an effective legal interview. (51 views)
Four Styles Adopted by Interviewers When Interviewing Paralegals Contrary to what you may have heard, the legal interview is not a lion's den, but an arena with special qualities. The special qualities affect both style and kind. Let's consider different styles adopted by interviewers who interview paralegals. Be conscious of the style, but don't get taken in by style. "Style," as opposed to "kind," has more to do with the individual's... (14 views)
Taking Apart the Paralegal Interview Getting ready for, going to, and participating in an interview is challenging, nerve-wracking, and for some, dreadful. Yet the formal interview is the way people get work. In fact, the majority of the hiring process takes place in the interview. There are enough other factors in the interview process to make it the palm-moistening, mouth-drying event that it is, but that... (10 views)
The Bio: Presenting Your Life-Story at a Paralegal Interview People often misunderstand the purpose of the bio. Skeptics say, "If it is scripted, it won't sound real." This is a problem of presentation, not memorization. It is true that people tend to sound robotic when they memorize something. I am not suggesting that you memorize your bio verbatim. However, it is a good idea to have a general outline in mind. (1610 views)
The Three Types of Legal Interviews Faced by Paralegals A quiet breeze blew across the outdoor patio at our favorite downtown cafe. My colleague continued to stir the cream into her coffee as she talked. "You know, most paralegal applicants have a good array of skills and wonderful personalities. The interview is just the place where some are more effective than others at getting their skills and their personalities across." (978 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)