THE LARGEST COLLECTION OF LEGAL JOBS ON EARTH
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Don’t Think Yourself into a Loser Don’t let the bad news get to you. As a law student you’d already be aware that an average law student leaves college with an average loan more than $100,000. You already know that the economy is in bad shape and there are inflated positive numbers all around from employment data to advertisements of earning. You know that students taking the LSAT have reduced by a full quarter, and you might be worrying whether you are in the wrong place at the wrong time. Don’t worry, there are thousands of law students who are in your shoes, and you are not so special that the economy is conspiring to get you personally.
But you can be special. You can be better, and you can
they look for the silent, hardworking, and averagely
join the large majority of successful lawyers who still
intelligent type. Their doors are closed to the brilliant.
manage to have a good life, bank balance, vacations, cars, villas and everything you dreamt of. Admitted
So, know this, working hard and smart is going to
they don’t number in millions, but they do number
get you somewhere definitely, but it may not get you
in quite a few thousands. And there’s nothing that
anywhere just because you are able to outsmart others.
prevents you from joining their ranks unless you think
Not at least at the beginning of your career.
yourself into a loser. So, be sure, there’s a job or practice out there waiting Don’t deny any opportunity to learn and better
for you, as long as you are ready to work hard and
yourself, unless a better opportunity is available with
smart. Look for opportunities to acquire complementary
a conflicting schedule. Do build rapport with your
degrees or certifications that can substantiate your
professors, half of the time they keep track of their
claim as a candidate. But at the end, remember, the
successful students, and they usually go out of their
greatest number of recruiters look for candidates who
way to help those who work hard.
can look them in the eye and talk, but can still be relied upon to obey orders. Recruiters like meticulous and
Remember, in the workplace, the brilliant always do
organized persons rather than the eccentric Einstein
not get opportunities, but the reliable and hardworking
type, who is always a recruitment risk without a proven
do. That’s because small and middle sized firms are
track record.
led by people who are individually brilliant. But the brilliant can’t get everything done by themselves and
Network, keep track of your alumni, find mentors, work
need lieutenants. They need ‘lieutenants’ but are not
hard and find out how the successful are succeeding.
amenable to accede entry to another ‘commander.’
Learn approaches and methods, become better at communicating, develop and exude congenial and
The reality is that we have progressed very little
positive attitudes and thank your stars that you are still
from ‘feudalistic’ mindsets, and even in big corporate
a student and there’s something you can still do about
houses, managers like to believe that they command
the mess.
people with unquestionable loyalty. Only to them, ‘unquestionably loyalty’ usually means people who
Do what you can, and don’t fret about what you
would ‘never question their authority.’ That is why
can’t. Just focus on the positives and use your time
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