Baylor Law School's CDO blog talking legal market, networking, interviewing and finding your job
Okay so you’ve put your job search off until 2017. Or maybe you were going hard prior to the holidays and decided to take a break and start anew when the calendar rolled around to January. Well, now’s the time! And so my goal with this post is to provide you five ways to elevate…
Between Tuesday and Thursday afternoons last week, I met with 13 different employers throughout Washington, D.C. The list included law firms, members of Congress, Senate Judiciary Committee staffs, federal agencies, non-profits and lobbying firms. Below are some things I learned. Employers have a positive impression of Baylor! I was welcomed warmly in every office I…
Many of you attended Professor Wren’s Professional Development Program last week on conducting a job search, and I wanted to highlight one specific aspect of the presentation for you. We interact with students all the time who either don’t know what they want to do, or perhaps they know but they don’t want to pigeon…
Thanksgiving is a great time to connect with family, friends and loved ones. It is also a great time to reach out to your professional network and check in. Okay, so the holiday is probably too short to allow for you to visit potential employers face-to-face (something you can absolutely do during the Christmas break), it…
Last week I spent two days in Oklahoma City and Tulsa, visiting law firms and hearing about their recruiting experiences and summer programs. It was a helpful week for me, simply because sometimes you can create your own echo chamber when you talk to people in essentially the same sphere (e.g. Texas law firms) all…
Law school is built around comparisons. You likely chose to attend Baylor based upon how it compared to other schools, either overall or within a particular category. Rather than just provide an objective evaluation of your academic performance in the form of a GPA, we also assign a ranking within the class, which appears (and in…
I recently interviewed University of Oklahoma Director of Athletics Joe Castiglione, and in that interview he talked about how candidates for jobs often torpedo their chances with one thing. That thing is what I want to talk with you about. Because whether you’re interviewing to be a head coach at a major university, or to…
We concluded another session of On-Campus Interviews last week, and I wanted to take the opportunity to visit with you about the one big takeaway I got from employers that will help you improve your interviewing skills. This is not a new concept; we’ve talked about it before on this blog and in our in-person…
We’re getting right to the point today, since we’re in the middle of OCI and you need this information right now! So here are four mistakes to avoid in an interview: Being late. Clearly this one is obvious, but not just for the reasons you immediately think of. While showing up on time is critical, you…
Bidding is winding down for Session Two of 2016’s Fall On-Campus Interviews (Tuesday night 11:59pm deadline), and I thought it might be helpful to talk a bit about how it came to exist and about its purpose. Session Two is still a relatively young program. Prior to its existence we would get a handful of…