Baby Lawyers: How to Manage Your Career Before You Have A Job
With a lot on the line, Texas Lawyer reached out to assistant deans of career services at three law schools spread across Texas to get their advice about how grads should tackle this important and stressful time, making the best decision about their future careers.
October 29, 2018 at 06:00 AM
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For the vast majority of the Lone Star State's baby lawyers, November is an important month to decide which path to take toward their future careers.
Although a minority of Texas law graduates have already accepted job offers from big law firms, there's a different timeline for new lawyers looking to land jobs in small and midsize law firms, government agencies and the public-interest sector. Many legal employers wait until bar exam results come out in November to extend job offers to recent graduates. For current students who participated in on-campus interviews in October, many summer job offers will begin rolling in this month.
With a lot on the line, Texas Lawyer reached out to assistant deans of career services at three law schools spread across Texas to get their advice about how grads should tackle this important and stressful time, making the best decision about their future careers. Here are the top five tips for starting on the career path.
Adjust Your Expectations
After some peers have wrapped up on-campus interviews and already accepted Big Law job offers, it's easy for panic to set in for those graduates who are still searching for jobs. This is a good time to step back and recall something that many law schools teach very early about adjusting expectations to match reality.
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