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Q1: Where can you get help with resume writing and interviewing skills?
Resume writing: I went to McGill law school which has an excellent career centre. If your school has a career and placement centre, obviously that is the first place to look. Also, the ZSA website has some good tips for resume writing. Interviewing skills: again, McGill had an excellent Mock Interview program and I highly recommend it if your school has one. If not, perhaps you can set one up. Lawyers volunteer to mock interview candidates as they would in a real interview, and then give feedback. ZSA also has a good link on frequently asked questions, which I found useful.
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Have you friends or family read it over with a critical eye
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School Career Development Office. Cold call "info-interviews" help with i/v skills. Headhunters like The Counsel Network offer good tips.
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career services at the law school
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Your career services counsellor at your law school. With respect to interviews, research the particular firm you are interviewing with and just be yourself.
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Law School Career Services
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I received help from the assistant dean of student services at my law school as well as from a partner at a local law firm
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UBC Law School career centre
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Law School Advisor
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Public library and internet sites such as Monster.ca.
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at your school's career counseling office
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Professional technical writer
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Your law school career counsellor.
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UVic careers office (if you are a UVic student) or equivalent office @ your law school - Students in the year ahead @ law school
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Your law school's career services office
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Law School Career Centres
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Career development officer at law school. also, most job search websites (monster, workopolis...) have some sort of section containing helpful resume hints
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1. UBC Faculty of Law, Career Development Office 2. Mentors (CBA, etc.) 3. Other lawyers you may have met and have built some sort of relationship with already
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I got help from the career counsellors at the law school. If you go in early enough there's no one else around and they'll spend as much time as you need.
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Having your CV and cover letter re-read by a close friend or parent was the most useful for me. Law school advisors are also a good resource, as they are up to speed with what firms are looking for.
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Career development office at law school
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UVic Career Centre, Also try looking at sites like Monster.ca. They have resources for students.
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UBC Career Services Office
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school career office - (if possible) lawyer who is/was on a hiring committee for a firm
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I would take every opportunity I could to get help with resume writing and interviewing skills while at law school. The best resume/interviewing workshops I have attended were those organized by my law school's Career Services Office. These are designed with law students in mind and are much better than those you might find offered through a community college or other outside organization
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when there is (as in my situation) no career counsellor available you have to tap into some pretty strange resources, such as local employment offices, libraries and other agencies, keeping in mind that the area you are going into is pretty specialized and they may not have the tools you require.
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Your law school's career development office (CDO)
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One can get help from a book titled "Articling Handbook" from the UBC Faculty of Law. It has quite a few errors. Still it is a good reference book.
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You might try your careers advisory service with your law school or former university. Many universities offer these services to current students and former students. They also maintain extensive libraries of materials that might be of use. Failing that, you might try Human Resources Canada.
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The career services office at law school - most of the schools put out an articling handbook with resume samples and hold interviewing workshops.
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UBC Law Career Counsellor - Judy Pozgay
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UBC Law School articling handbook and lunch-time seminars Ask the law school career development officer to ask some big-firm lawyers to come in and do practice interviews and offer advice on resumes
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Jennifer Moraskat at the University of Victoria Career Office.
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At the Career Center of your Law School. Try having mock interviews.
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Career Services offers some seminars and pamphlets. They also have a website that gives some insight. Some of the large Vancouver firms also give advice on their website. During the summer, mock interviews are also offered
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UBC Law School Career Centre
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Approach someone at a firm if you can. Otherwise just pick a simple straightforward design from an MS-Office template.
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workshops provided by the law schools and a book called "gorilla tactics" for finding articles
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Your law school should have a career development officer (or someone with a similar name) who will be willing to look over your resume and give you interview tips.
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At the Career Development Office. Also online.
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Employment agencies, university career centres
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Career Development office of law school
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Career office at law school OR online
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Career counseller at the law school
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The Career Development Officer at the law school. There is also usually a university-wide career centre that can help you. I know at UBC, they will actually look at your resume and suggest how you can improve on it.
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Law school career development office
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Ask the careers service office or students that are articling already. Firms frequently ask articled students what they think of applicants.
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With the career counselling department at school.
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Your career advisor at school, seminars at the law faculty and main campus, internet and books, family and friends
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The Career Development office at UBC or UVic law schools (for their students). Career Resource Centres.
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1. UBC Career Services (Nadia Myerthall is great) 2. Friends - perhaps some are already working in law offices
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HDRC - good advice on resumes (surprisingly) Also, there are a number of excellent books that provide interview techniques, which really help you prepare you for the types of questions that are going to come - e.g. 201 Best Answers to Interview Questions
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Your law faculty's career development officer. Also, the UBC Law Students Society publishes an articling handbook that can be helpful.
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[posted June 3, 2005] |