How to Ace Your First Legal Job Interview A legal job interview holds significant importance in the career of aspiring lawyers and legal professionals. It serves as a crucial opportunity to showcase one's skills, knowledge, and potential to prospective employers within the legal industry. Acing the interview can open doors to prestigious law firms, government agencies, corporate legal departments, or other legal... (39 views)
Demonstrating Your Ability to be Managed in a Job Interview Demonstrating your ability to be managed is an important part of any job interview. Employers are looking for candidates who are not only competent in their field but also able to work collaboratively with others and be managed effectively. Here are some tips for demonstrating your ability to be managed in a job interview: (11 views)
First-Year Law Student? Here's How to Prepare for Your Summer Job Interview This article advises first-year law students on successfully following up after a summer job interview. It outlines steps such as thanking the employer for their time, expressing interest in the position and asking any questions that may have come up during the meeting. Additionally, it discusses tips for making a good impression on employers, such as demonstrating strong... (122 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)
How to Conduct Yourself at Law Job Interview It is very easy to "blow" an important interview before it is even started. Too many job candidates are so eager to "get down to business" that they forget an interview is as much a social occasion as a business one: your first task, and perhaps your only task, is to get the interviewer to like you as a person. (299 views)
Asking the Right Questions in Legal Job Interview The key to saying as little as possible is to keep the interviewer at a legal job interview talking as much as possible, and the key to doing that is to keep asking questions. But not just any questions; to keep the interviewer talking, and genuinely interested in the one-way discussion, your questions must be the "right" ones. (600 views)
Don’t Sell Yourself: Legal Job Interview You should not at any cost come on too strong during a legal job interview. This point needs to be underscored here, because your demeanor during the interview may be crucial to the outcome. While you should appear genuinely interested in the position and in the interviewer, you must not be too enthusiastic, or too dynamic, or too polished, or too eloquent, or else you... (475 views)
The Key Rule for Success in a Legal Job Interview More than any other rule, there is one rule you must keep foremost in your mind during a legal job interview. It is the key to success; disobeying or flaunting this rule is, in my opinion, the single biggest cause of being "screened out" in a legal job interview. It is a simple rule to remember, and yet is difficult to apply in practice, both because it runs counter to a... (111 views)
Legal Job Luncheon Interview: Special Rules At some point in your interviewing career it is inevitable that you will be taken by your prospective employer to a fancy restaurant for lunch, cocktails and/or dinner. The purpose of such an interview is threefold: (1) to give all of the involved parties a treat at the expense of the United States Treasury (and hence indirectly from the United States taxpayer, namely you... (301 views)
Take Care of Looks: Legal Job Interview Before you open your mouth in a legal job interview, the interviewer will have an opportunity (however brief) to see how you look, how you dress, how you walk, and how you carry yourself. Since first impressions are lasting ones, you need to be very concerned about those fleeting first moments when the interviewer is "sizing you up." This is not a "Dress for Success" book... (571 views)
Legal Job Interview: Homework You Should Do Success in a legal job interview, as in any other professional endeavor, requires preparation and thought. There should be no surprises during the interview itself: you should know what you want, you should anticipate what the lawyer-interviewer wants, you should have ready answers to the standard interview questions, you should have in your mind a list of questions to... (1896 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)
Opening Lines of a Law Job Interview and Accepting the Offer Adopting your host mentality, approach someone who is standing alone and say: "I don't believe we have met. My name is...’’ (use your 10-15 second introduction). (125 views)
Tips for a Law Job Interview and Thank You Notes When you suspect an interviewer has lured you into a dangerous area, you have several response options: (89 views)
Acquiring Work as a Paralegal: The Job Interview Interviews generally begin with "small talk." Questions posed to you in the beginning of an interview might range from "Did you have any trouble finding us?" to "How did you find out about the firm?" You would never answer questions such as these with replies of: "I had the worst time trying to find you" or, "Oh, I just looked up the firm in Martindale-Hubbell and you were... (202 views)
Nail the Job, Part 1: How to Answer Interview Questions Scared to open your mouth at a recruiting interview? Don't be. We'll show you how to talk smart no matter what comes your way. (6590 views)
Tips on Preparing Yourself for the Interview for an In-House Counsel Job Recently, one of the leading in-house counsel publishers gave some advice to general counsels on how to conduct effective job interviews. This advice was given to those who are hiring new in-house counsel — i.e., interviewers. (12017 views)
Job-Interview Warning Signs: Is This Job a Bust? Getting an interview for a seemingly excellent job is a big step in anyone's job search. No matter how good or bad the job may actually be, job seekers sometimes fail to notice obviously suspicious interview signs that can be bad news when it comes to a potential job. (506 views)
The finer nuances of facing a job interview To many of us, those three words create one of the most chilling phrases in the English language. It's an emotionally wrenching phrase that connotes desire and vulnerability as well as success and rejection. (64 views)