Every career guidance book says that volunteering for a cause you care about can open the door to job opportunities. That strategy really worked for Kelly Slavitt, 39, an animal lover and now corporate counsel at the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in New York.
In 2001 Slavitt had just returned to New York after two years working for a leading Australian law firm in Melbourne. It was right after 9/11, hardly a great time to be job hunting in Manhattan, and Slavitt asked the local bar association where she could volunteer. Slavitt wound up working pro bono with the staff attorney of the venerable animal welfare organization, helping to collect royalties from deadbeat licensees, and eventually found a job as an associate at Thelen Reid & Priest. In 2005 the ASPCA attorney, Melissa Norden, moved upstairs to be senior vice president, and when she advertised an opening for her old job, she recognized Slavitt’s name among the incoming resumes and was kindly disposed.
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