How to Leave on Good Terms

On May 23, 2021

It’s peak hiring season now! My candidates are getting offers and saying good-bye to current employers. Three things departing employees should do to leave on good terms: Give two weeks’ notice. Yes, two weeks is an arbitrary number, but it is convention. Be flexible about staying a little longer if your employer asks you to. […]

Resume

7 Things Executive Resumes Do (& Your Resume Should Too!)

On May 14, 2021

Professional executive resume writer Adrienne Tom’s “7 Secrets of Executive Resumes” apply directly to lawyers! Sometimes resume experts don’t understand the legal field and offer up inapplicable advice, like always list an objective or include all your technical skills/languages for a robot to parse. Instead, these seven tips are all high-level and high-impact, which is […]

Career Management, Change

What is a Bridge Job? 5 Scenarios Bridge Jobs Make Sense

On May 9, 2021

I enjoyed LinkedIn’s career column on “bridge jobs,” which is a temporary job taken while waiting for the perfect one. Sometimes you need to take small steps to get to that ideal job. Here are five scenarios where it makes sense: Take a bigger job in the same field. For example, you could pick up direct […]

Career Tips

Fast Company lists seven skills recruiters supposedly value. Do I?

On May 2, 2021

Fast Company listed seven skills recruiters value. I checked them out, and it turns out I am impressed if you show these seven because employers are looking for them too. They also mean you will do well on the job too! 1. Emotional Intelligence. Can you read situations and approach them sensitively? So much of law is not […]

Change, Move

Will Silicon Valley Stay Significant Post-Pandemic?

On April 24, 2021

Most of us now have received at least one vaccination shot and are now wondering what lies ahead for our career. How much will the office and city make a difference post-pandemic? Employers are all grappling with this question, and the media has reported extensively about the exodus of companies from the San Francisco Bay […]

Interview, Presentation, Women & Minorities

Presenting Effectively as a Lawyer Even with Self-Doubt

On April 18, 2021

Clients tell me their chief complaint about lawyers is they are so bad at communicating. Why are they constantly hedging? Can’t they just break things down and explain the likelihood of events? Um, no. We lawyers are taught to examine all risk so we have a hard time prioritizing them and don’t want to be wrong. On […]

LinkedIn, Presentation

Top 5 Hiring Trends from Indeed CEO

On April 11, 2021

Indeed.com is a website I use regularly and has the pulse on hiring. Put in the title “counsel” and your keyword plus metro area, and the site generates an accurate and comprehensive snapshot of the job market. So when the Wall Street Journal interviewed the Indeed CEO Chris Hyams, I paid attention to what he […]

Career Management, Career Tips, Presentation

How to Think about Returning to Work: 5 Factors

On April 3, 2021

The US economy is “roaring back!” As employers added close to a million jobs last month, they are now thinking about how to return employees to the office. I appreciated Microsoft’s thoughtful study on remote work. On the one hand, 61% of leaders believe people are “thriving” and see “high productivity,” but on the other, […]

Career Management, Career Tips

What is the secret code for success? 5 things

On March 29, 2021

Is there some secret code to achieving success? Here are five things about successful lawyers, not secret at all and worth laying out concretely: Successful lawyers are memorable. My favorite candidates I call for top jobs are the ones that have impressed me usually due to a mix of their on-point skills and personality. They […]

Career Tips, LinkedIn, Resume

3 Basic Things to Do For Your Career

On March 29, 2021

You may be happy at your job and not looking to change. But here are the three minimum things you should always do for your career. LinkedIn presence. Put up a picture, describe your job, and list your key skills. Even if you are not on the job market, you should have a digital presence. […]

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