Preparing for a job search & career transition

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Where to find it

Law Library — Reserve Room (4th floor)

Call Number
KF297 .H4 2008
Status
Available

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Summary

This audio set from our Sum and Substance Legal Career Management Series focuses on preparing for a job search and career transition. 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. Downloadable handouts are included. This series is designed to teach you how to plan and realize your job and career aspirations at every stage of your legal career. Other titles in this set are: Legal Job Interviewing & Effective Marketing, and The Hidden Legal Job Market; Major Employer Complaints; Solo Practice Success. For additional career resources, visit the AttorneyJobs Web site.

Contents

Disc. 1. Introduction -- Thinking about your career -- Additional questions you need to ask -- The career planning process -- Further education or training? -- Disc. 2. Legal job market demographics -- Mainstream legal job opportunities -- Legal careers outside the mainstream -- Who moves out of the mainstream... and why -- Upsides of an alternative legal career -- Downsides of an alternative legal career -- Where do you find law related jobs?

Disc. 3. Introduction -- Resumes -- How does an employer read a resume? -- What does an employer want to see? -- Other key resume questions -- Resume components. -- Disc. 4. Resume technical questions and considerations -- Understanding the hiring process -- Major resume taboos -- Final resume tips. -- Disc. 5. Application forms -- Cover letters -- Reference lists: documenting and managing your references -- Letters of recommendation -- Transcripts -- Writing samples.

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