Title

What are Standard In-House Titles, and How Can I Negotiate for a Good Title?

  • On September 21, 2018
A good title is important to lawyers. Your title signals your level both internally and externally. Your title can also affect what job you will next be considered for. What are typical titles? Law firm titles are pretty lock step (Associate, Counsel, Partner), but you may have room to negotiate your in-house title, especially at […]
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Interview

What Are Interviewers Actually Looking For? 3 Key Areas

  • On September 15, 2018
Sometimes interviewers are not the best at asking for information they want about you. These two articles from Forbes and CNBC helpfully decipher what interviewers are getting at: “What is your greatest weakness?” They don’t expect you to divulge something truly horrible, but they are looking for some humility, self-reflection, and ability to learn. So […]
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Interview

3 Ways to Survive (and Ace) Marathon Interview Sessions

  • On September 7, 2018
It’s interview season again! After acing the phone screen, my candidates are getting called in for marathon in-person interviews. Here are three ways to survive and even ace these long sessions: Fuel yourself. Bring a granola bar. Accept that bottle of water offered in the beginning. Expect your energy level to crash in the middle, […]
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Career Management, Career Tips, Interview, Presentation

Ghosting by Candidates: Sign of an Overheated Economy

  • On August 26, 2018
I read this LinkedIn article about job seekers ghosting prospective employers. Usually, it’s the employer who disappears in the interview process, but in overheated times like these, candidates are starting to ghost employers and recruiters, I’m guessing because passively ghosting is the easiest thing to do in the short run. But (really, need I say […]
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Interview

The Easiest Interview Question … To Mess Up! 5 Ways to Get It Right.

  • On August 12, 2018
Can you actually fail an interview question asking you about yourself? Yes, yes you can. The very common interview question “Tell me about yourself” (or its close cousin “Walk me through your resume.”) is not a trick question – the interviewer wants to understand what you’ve done that’s relevant, why you’re interested/why this job makes […]
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Career Tips

How to Get to Where You Need to Go!

  • On July 13, 2018
I recently read a good article on what successful people learned when they pushed through adversity. What worked for them: Make the time to work at your goal. If you don’t, it means you don’t want it enough. I meet lawyers who say they want to switch from litigation to transactional or from corporate to crypto […]
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Career Management, Change, Departure

WSJ Reports Everyone is Job Hopping. Should I?

  • On July 8, 2018
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that “in this economy, quitters are winning!” The market is so strong that “workers are choosing to leave their jobs at the fastest rate since the internet boom 17 years ago and getting rewarded for it with bigger paychecks and/or more satisfying work.” Should you too? A few factors to […]
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