Description
- Maximize Resume Impact: Even if you lose your lawyer position in February but are paid through March, list it on your resume for maximum impact.
- Immediate Job Hunt: Apply to law firms aggressively, even those without current openings, as soon as you lose your job to swiftly secure a new position.
- Demand Online Presence: Negotiate with your former law firm to keep your information active on their website, voicemail, and email, increasing your chances of securing a new job.
- Avoid Career Gaps: Pursue employment opportunities everywhere, leveraging your hometown, school location, and family connections to minimize career gaps.
- Continuous Job Search: Lawyers are advised to consistently apply to various markets, cities, and locations to enhance the likelihood of securing new positions.
- Proactive Approach: Take every step to avoid breaks in your legal career, as any hiatus could potentially harm your chances of securing future positions.
Transcript:
So if a lawyer, this is a question, loses their position in February and is paid through March, can they list on their resume that they worked on their, worked at a law firm till March? Yes. You would be insane. Sorry to keep saying this, but yes, you list, you go all out applying for jobs. When you lose your job, go all out, apply to firms without openings.
I'm going to say it again, without openings and then ASAP and get a job as fast as possible. Get a job as fast as possible. And not only that, you get a job as fast as possible. But yes, you list on your resume as long as you can. Not only that, but if the law firm you demand, if you lose your job and the law firm shows you the door, you demand that they leave you on your website, that they leave you on the website, you, you demand that they keep your voicemail active, voicemail, email.
All the stuff you demand, they keep it active because if they don't, and I'm going to be really clear here, if the law firm doesn't leave this stuff active, they're screwing you over. Now, I'm not going to say they're screwing you over because they may have legal reasons for doing it, but I would just say, does not leave active, sorry, not leave active.
You are screwed, right? And I'm sorry to use that. So yes, you can still get a job, but you want to actually Negotiate with a law firm and say, I need this. I'm trying to get a job. And they know that if they don't need that active, that it's going to be very hard for you to get a job. Your job, if you lose a job, is to do everything in your fricking power to get a new job, because if you don't.
Then you're going to have that break, but you do need to do everything you can to get the law firm to make it look like you still work there. You can say, Hey, very early in my career, I've only been here like a year. I'm sorry for the reasons I'm losing my position, but this is really harming me if I don't have the ability.
To get a position in time because no one, it's very much more difficult to get a position without a business with a position you tell them that, but I want to be very clear with you, like you need anybody that loses their job and is on the website for six months. For a month or whatever, you need to apply every fricking place you possibly can to get a job.
So you don't have a break in your career. So what does that mean? That means once you start practicing law, you're not really supposed to stop You're just supposed to practice, you know till you die pretty much. I mean till you retire so any break on your resume any break in your career is going to Hurt you.
So you need to make sure that you keep, do everything you can to get a job. That means applying every single finding every single firm, every single place you could work, every single city, wherever that means, where do you apply? You apply to, where did you grow up? You apply there. Did you grow up? Where did you go to school?
Where do your siblings live? Where did your siblings live? Where do your parents live? Where did you go to school? You apply to every single market you possibly can. And if you do that, then you'll be more likely to get positions than if you don't. So that's my piece of advice to you. You need to do whatever you fricking can to work, to get a job.
And these are places where you grew up. The only reason I bring that up is because if you get to try to get a job where you grew up, then people will think you're going home. They will think you're not trying to get a job there because you're having problems. If you've tried to play where your siblings live, that's good because you say, I want to be close to my brother or sister, but you want to go back to where you went to school.
Those are all things that you can do that can be very helpful in terms of ask you if you're asked those questions.
