Law School Grads Face Tough Job Market
Law school grads do not have it as easy as new lawyers did not too many years ago. Starting salaries are lower than in the past and open positions are fewer. Read more…
Making Your Resume As Strong As Possible
Successfully getting a job as an attorney (associate or partner) at a law firm is never easy because there are a number of people for most every attorney job out there.
Resumes are important because they can be the sole reason you make it to an interview or get a rejection letter. One of the best ways to make your resume stronger is to make sure it includes specific and measurable accomplishments. Have you helped your firm make money, reduce costs, attract new clients or done other things that have benefited the firm. Give this some thought and include these items on your resume. The best place to put them is in the bullet points under each specific job you have had. Use measurable results to illustrate your accomplishments.
Power Posing Can Help You Get The Job You Want
Assuming poses like these can give you confidence and power which is a big advantage for job interviews, client meetings and court appearances.
Now you can get an unfair advantage when you go to your next job interview or client meeting. A new study in Psychological Science shows that assuming certain postures before going into an interview or meeting can give you more confidence and power. The study was conducted by two professors, one from the Columbia Business School and the other from the Harvard Business School. They discovered that certain poses, such as putting your feet up on the desk and leaning back in your chair with your hands behind your head will actually change your neuroendocrine make up and behavior. Assuming this pose for just a couple of minutes can have an immediate impact. Read more.
Why Resumes Don’t Work Anymore
Most people don’t realize that sending resumes and replying to job postings is statistically unlikely to result in actually getting an interview, let alone a job. Today’s Internet age has made responding to job postings and almost effortless task. This makes it very easy for job seekers to literally send hundreds of resumes every day. So many resumes came in that they can’t possibly look at all of them. A few are pulled out that look good and the rest never get considered.
Don’t Be A Lobster
Don't Be Like A Lobster On A Rock
“A lobster, when left high and dry among the rocks, has not the instinct and enough energy to work its way back to the sea, but waits for the sea to come to it. If the sea does not come the lobster remains where it is and dies. Although the slightest effort would have enabled it to reach the waves, which are perhaps within a yard.
The world is full of human lobsters: People stranded on the rocks of indecision and procrastination, who, instead of putting forth their own energies, are waiting for some grand billow of good fortune to set them afloat.” - Dr. Orrison Swett Marden
Hiring Partners Advise Law Students
Advice from hiring partners of top firms may be valuable for law school graduates. Get the scoop from this post on The AmLaw Daily.