The hidden legal job market; major employer complaints; solo practice success

This audio set from our Sum and Substance Legal Career Management Series focuses on the hidden legal job market; major employer complaints and solo practice success. This audio series takes you, step-by-step, through the entire legal job hunting and career transition process. Topics include: planning your career; strategizing your job-search/career transition campaign; preparing winning resumes, cover letters and other application documents; maximizing your professional and other contacts; effective interviewing; and negotiating compensation and other terms of employment. This series is designed to teach you how to plan and realize your job and career aspirations at every stage of your legal career. Downloadable handouts are included. Other titles in this set are: Preparing for a Job Search and Career Transition, and Legal Job Interviewing and Effective Marketing. For additional career resources, visit the AttorneyJobs Web site.

Disc. 1. Profiling the hidden legal job market -- Identifying hidden opportunities -- Trends analysis: how to identify rapidly growing companies -- Generic sources of hidden job intelligence - Hidden opportunities in corporations. -- Disc. 2. Hidden opportunities in the public sector -- Hidden opportunities in nonprofits -- Hidden law-related opportunities. -- Disc. 3. Getting started on the wrong foot -- Strategic planning mistakes -- Resume mistakes.

Disc. 4. Special application form mistakes -- Cover letter mistakes -- Job search management mistakes -- Interviewing mistakes -- Networking mistakes -- Job offer and acceptance mistakes. -- Disc. 5. Introduction -- Demographics -- Growth trends -- Who is the competition? -- Now some positives -- Principal solo practice area -- Principal specialized solo practices -- Practice area trends analysis -- Other issues to consider -- Your buisness and marketing plan -- Solo practice resources.