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... (24 views)
How Paralegals Can Get a Job by Building Their Paralegal Network A paralegal career is all about networking. By nature, paralegals are people-oriented and like to build relationships. This makes them ideal networkers. The ability to network effectively is a critical skill for paralegals seeking a job. (90 views)
What Should a Paralegal Know before Being Hired? We asked two paralegals in the United States what a paralegal should know before being hired. Both paralegals have extensive experience and provided useful advice for paralegals and students thinking about entering their profession. We hope you enjoy their responses. (364 views)
Schedule for a Paralegal Profession to Grow in Begin to prepare cover letters for mailing on Monday. Plan your week. You have made a direct mail campaign of sending out 25 letters a week with follow-up phone calls. This week you are going to call on the 25 from last week. This week you are sending out 25 new letters. (114 views)
Showcasing the Written Presentations for Paralegal Job Search The basic cover letter announcing your availability and your skills and qualifications should be prepared in at least an outline form. From this skeleton, you customize elements of your cover letters. (137 views)
Professional Paralegal Package Put Together Sending cover letters with the resumes is an irritating duty, but this is necessary task which the employers use to get a look at you, as the individual. They get you qualified, they get you disqualified. Because resumes tend to be at such a high minimum standard, because people spend scores of hours on and invest in resumes, the cover letter is seen as 'the real you.' Pay... (102 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)
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)
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)
How Legal Professionals Can Use the Art of Telephoning Telephoning is art at best and at worst clumsy hindrance. Telephoning can be effective at various times in the job hunt. Never telephone when a personal appearance is feasible. Flesh impresses more favorably than a disembodied voice, and employers find it more difficult to chase a body out of an office than to disconnect a caller. (19 views)
Paralegal Job Ads: Response Dynamics In the search for a paralegal job responding to a formal advertisement is the most challenging. Because the odds are against you, it puts the written presentation and other job search basics in the forefront. (87 views)
Resume Strategies for Paralegal Job Applicants Personal marketing is seventy percent of finding a job. Only thirty percent depends on actual background and skills. That personal marketing is in the form of a well-written resume and good interviewing skills. Your first marketing tool is your resume. (119 views)
What People Forget When Negotiating For a New Job The principles of negotiating for a new job are a lot different than negotiating for a simple pay raise. Most applicants feel at a disadvantage and the people on the other side are well aware of the candidate’s discomfort. And many employers take advantage of the situation. They focus on the dollar component while bigger things are lost through oversight of the... (17 views)
When Paralegals Don't Look Alike - The Effect of Gender and Age on Landing a Legal Staff Position There's the legal assistant who says she succeeded at interviews only after dying her graying hair. There's the young new paralegal whose date of birth was revealed to other employees at her firm—by the firm's manager, no less. Then there's the male paralegal student who's concerned about finding a job in a historically female-dominated profession. Legal staff who don't... (1039 views)