'Career' tagged blog posts in Attorney's Counsel

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5 FREE Resources to Find Whom You Already Know at Your Dream Job

Jessica Silverstein
July 29 2011


Last week I wrote that resumes submitted through a person at the firm or organization will be reviewed first. Now, how do you find the people to whom you should send your resume?

The following are 5 free and simple things to do, some you may already be doing, to find people you already know at your dream job.

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What path will you take?

Jessica Silverstein
February 23 2011


 

Many women know what they want to be when they grow-up. Today my 2.5-year-old daughter wants to be a doctor-mommy-good-girl. I promised her I'll work hard so she can be whatever she wants and she promised me the same.

 

What she ends up doing professionally may not exist yet. I won't go down the slippery-this-and-that-didn't-exist-when-I-was-her-age-slope (car phones, VCRs, fax machines, the internet, Starbucks!)...

 
 
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I resolve to be an AFTER

Jessica Silverstein
January 26 2011


Analogy – the inference that two or more things that are similar to each other in some respects are also similar in other respects . . . In a legal argument, an analogy may be used when there is no precedent on point.

It is the agreement between otherwise dissimilar things that enables people to understand foreign, or otherwise confusing, concepts.

Here are two analogies that might resonate with...