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You’re Hired! Job Hunting Advice For Law Students and Young Lawyers
Marketing Yourself
You are your best salesperson and it is up to you to market yourself to prospective employers. You need to create and fine tune your brand and push that brand out virtually and in person, through social media and through contacts with others.
Your Online Presence
Check all your social media platforms, and make sure you have professional headshots and robust and thoughtful bios on them. Also, ensure there is nothing you have posted that would give prospective employers pause. In addition, double check wherever your name or likeness appears online and
see what it says, and to the extent you can affect such references for the better, do so. We all have digital footprints and each of us bears responsibility to know our own and improve it to the extent we can.
Your Network
Work your network. Go through your virtual rolodex, review your contact list, scroll through your friends on Facebook and your connections on LinkedIn, and reach out to contacts about employment opportunities. Many jobs are filled before they are posted or shared publicly. Who you know makes a difference. Through those you know, you will learn about opportunities and will have someone help you land an interview.
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