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Getting Your Resume Circulated
Currently, we are experiencing a very tight job market. Be prepared to print from 100 to 200 copies of your resume and cover letter, depending upon the size of your city. Make job-hunting an 8-hour a day job. ThatĦs what it may take in this market! Your job search can take anywhere from two weeks to six months. Unfortunately, how long you search for a job remains one of the great unknowns.
There are so many ways to find a job that an entire book can be written (and has) on the best ways to find one. Here are just a few:
1. Student Placement Office many schools have lifetime placement assistance and do a great job with entry-level students.
2. Networking DonĦt think this is an overrated method for job hunting! The first person who will know where a job is is another paralegals. The first person someone tells that they are thinking of looking for a job is usually a friend at work. Friends will know long before the Human Resources Director. Join your local paralegal association and go to the meetings. Bring your card and resume with you just in case.
3. Staffing Organizations Try and sign up with as many as you can. Stick with ones that specialize in paralegal placement. Going to a clerical agency that only specializes in legal secretaries might not help you.
4. Local Newspapers Almost every major metropolitan area has a legal newspaper. Many firms will advertise there or on the paperĦs online job placement service.
5. General Online Services - Some areas of the country have great luck with employers posting jobs to online services and others donĦt. Use this as just one of your tools.
6. Find out from other grads what worked for them. You might be pleasantly surprised.
7. Attend paralegal seminars. Meet other legal professionals who also know where those jobs are.
8. Print Media just a few resources to find firms and in-house legal departments are:
- Martindale-Hubbell (a directory of law firms in the country)
- Your local paralegal association newsletter
- Directory of Corporate Counsel (for in-house legal departments)
- Local Business Journal Book of Lists
- Yellow Books (a series of 14 directories of law firms and in-house legal departments)
- Directory of Legal Employers (Harcourt Brace)
- Local newspaper
- Local legal newspaper
9. Legal field web-based databases: Just a few are:
10. Job Fairs
11. Government agencies and the military
Searching Paralegal Job Sites:
*Note: Pearson Education is not responsible for the content on pages of non-Pearson Education Websites.
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