Description
- Career Transition Insights: In a recent Q&A clip, Harrison discusses reapplying to a law firm after previously applying to a large firm.
- Navigating Impressions: Despite positive initial interviews, hesitation arose due to the candidate switching firms, potentially impacting their current position.
- Strategic Approach: Harrison advises against returning to the previous firm immediately and emphasizes the importance of appearing sought after in every interview.
- Market Yourself: It's crucial to convey that you bring value and have options, making the employer feel fortunate to have you, akin to creating a positive impression on a dating site.
- Building Relationships: Forming professional connections with interviewers can be more valuable than merely chasing opportunities, fostering ongoing communication.
- Caution in Reapplying: If the job didn't work out, Harrison warns against stating job loss outright, suggesting careful consideration and gaining additional experience before revisiting the previous firm.
- Marketable Skills: The fact that the firm interviewed you suggests marketable skills; firms generally want to hire based on experience, with rejection reasons often having deeper motivations.
- Long-Term Strategy: Waiting until gaining more experience elsewhere can strengthen the position when considering reapplication to the previous firm.
- Skepticism on Rejection Reasons: Firms may give generic reasons for rejection; Harrison advises not taking them too seriously and understanding that there could be underlying factors.
- Overall Guidance: Approach career transitions strategically, project confidence in interviews, build lasting connections, and consider the long-term implications of reapplying to former employers.
Transcript:
These are really do appreciate all these questions. This is very, these are great questions. Okay. Previously applied to a large firm and got several interviews. Okay. That's good. They told me they were impressed with my candidacy, but seemed hesitant about the fact that I was switching firms. After a few months, maybe it got back to your current firm.
Probably not. It could have. So you have to think about that. Then the other thing is I would say is it's probably not a good idea to go back to that firm and ask for a position. You have to every interview. You need every firm in, and plus interview, you need to appear, you need to appear chased and not chasing.
So what does that mean? You need to appear like you have options and like you are, they're lucky to get you. This is a deal. This is a good price. This is, you have a better chance. They're getting the best end. So if you go on to a dating site and the person says. Hey, I'm really desperate. Please message me if you're interested.
I'm having a really hard time meeting people. Maybe my background is not what people like. I don't know. But people don't do that when they're trying to meet people in the opposite sex. People are the same sex, whoever they're dating. People don't do that when they're trying to make friends. Like people don't appear desperate.
So it's important to you to make sure that you appear strong. The employer and that you have more to offer than they have to give. And that, and then they feel like they're getting a good deal. I wouldn't circle back to them. If your job didn't work out, it can be based in the practice area, whatever.
But there's a final thing that I would like to say about this particular thing. And it's about relationship. Sometimes if you're able to form a relationship with anybody that you're interviewing with. Not like a personal relationship, but one where you're staying in touch and maybe they you're, they're asking how you're doing or something.
And that's always more useful than having a relationship. So if you can figure out how to do that, a lot of times it's going to help you tremendously with this sort of thing. Is it possible, if they were concerned about that, they probably, they might have been, but another thing to understand is if they were that concerned they never would have brought you in for an interview.
It sounds like you have some sort of marketable skills that could be good. But I don't know if I was you, would I go back to them? I think if you go back to them and you tell them you lost your job, I think there's no way that's going to work out. So I would be very careful about that. And maybe after you get a few years experience in another place, then you will go back to them.
And I, I personally think that you won't have a hard time getting a job because the company firm would not have interviewed you if they thought you, you must have something that's very marketable, but yeah, they're not. They're not going to, firms, by the way, they don't reject people because they say, Oh, the experience isn't a fit.
They don't reject people because, Oh, whatever. Someone brings you in for an interview. Most of the time, they really want to hire you based on your experience. It scares people when they give reasons like that. It's a lot of times not something that you should take that seriously. You should worry that it's true.
