HOW I GOT A JOB
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How I Got a Job
This week, LawCrossing talks with Amy Davis
those challenges, I recommend persistence,
“I started working in a law office upon
about how she got her job as a paralegal
dedication, and commitment to the
graduating from high school, while attending
at Rake & Catanese, PC, in Arizona. After
profession. It’s the excellence you achieve
community college at night,” she said. “My
starting out in a law office after high school,
that will land you the job and make working
aspirations were to transfer to a university
Davis simply worked her way up the ladder,
as a paralegal a successful and rewarding
and obtain my degree so that I could pursue
and she encourages paralegal students to do
career.”
law school. What I liked most about the legal field was being in a professional, educated
the same. Davis, who has worked in the legal field for
business environment, and I found the
“Students often find the transition into a
almost 20 years now, worked her way up
work I performed was both interesting and
working paralegal position challenging—just
from being a runner to a receptionist, from
challenging. I embraced new challenges—
getting their foot in the door is difficult at
a receptionist to a secretary, and from a
even pursued them by requesting to take on
times. I know; I started at the bottom and
secretary to a paralegal.
new tasks and assignments—and learned as
worked my way up,” she said. “To [face]
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much as possible along the way.”