As soon as my state bar number hit my inbox I hit the ground running. Well, kind of.
I have had my eye set on three small to medium size firms that I wanted to apply to. Unfortunately, none of them are hiring. Fortunately, I received a call back from each of them wanting to have either an informal interview or a chat over coffee for introductions. They all went well and I was so pleased to get some face time with some of the partners and my face and resume is now in their minds in the event a position opens up!
My career counselor always told us to network, network, network! Although I chose to network within a small group of firms, I feel I benefited greatly not just from the face time, but from the advice each partner was able to give to me as far as my path in this new law career of mine. To see them let down their guard and just chat about their love of their jobs and their dislikes was invaluable. I may have left a little giddy from each meeting. Almost as if I had some unknown knowledge that others didn’t.
So, needless to say, this past month has been a crazy month. In addition to the three private firms, I also submitted an application to my own office for which I was hustled through an interview and the formal background process with a tentative start date of August 10th. I can’t complain. I knew upon graduation I would have a job, it was just a matter of where.
Hopefully now that I have settled down with all of the job hunting craziness I can get back to posting more regularly. I miss this.
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