How Do Law Firms Eye Future Stability
[00:00:00] I left my old firm to join my fiance in the Northeast, I joined a small law firm and took a pay cut. I want to start applying to jobs after I'd been at the small law firm for a year because the benefits of the small firm are terrible and it's very disorganized and I don't think it will match my salary requirements. Is there a downside to waiting? I've seen other openings come up for some of the firms I want to apply to, but I want to hold off until I've done my time.
You can start right away. You can start searching right away. You know what I would just say in your interviews if they ask you why you're looking so quickly, and I would say I'm just trying to do more sophisticated work.
I didn't want to have too long of a gap on my resume. I applied to this firm right away after getting out of school or, whatever, or after moving to explain that you're joining a fiance. Law firms love that kind of stuff, by the way, that's a good thing joining a significant other.
So they would like that. So I think that's all very positive. There's not too much to worry about because the reason, by the way, law firms like it, when you're joining fiances are moving. And I didn't talk about this to the person that asked about a gap on their resume, but law firms are looking for signs of future stability.
[00:01:00] They want you to have to work. They like it when you move home or are to join a loved one because it means you'll likely stay. So if I'm like, 25 and I moved to New York, I could leave New York any time, especially if I'm from, who knows, Cleveland or something. I'll probably want to go back to Cleveland at some point. I may where my family is and where I have a support network and when I have kids and all that sort of thing, but law firms love it when you move home.
They also love it when you have to work. So if you have to work, that means, you need to support a significant other, have kids, student loans, mortgages, all that kind of stuff. So law firms love that kind of thing. And if you have that that means pretty much, you're giving them the message that they can control you. I don't mean that in a negative I sorta do. But that they have control over you and that you're likely to commit.
If you were to think about it from the standpoint of a law firm, a law firm likes it when people have commitments somewhere or a network because then the
[00:02:00] person's more likely to keep working with someone who's young and doesn't know what they want to do, or it has a lot of freedom and kid could leave at any time is not as good of a fit for many law firms because the law firm will believe that they could leave at any time.
And that can hurt them.
