Blogs About "Resume"

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Lawyers are here to help!

Jessica Silverstein
June 15 2011


Are you curious about alternative legal careers? There are many options, not just various careers you can pursue, but lots of people who can help you along the way to your dream job. We are lawyers and we’ve been where you are. Law Students. Recent Graduates. Professionals dissatisfied with their careers. Job seekers seeking something new.

You are not alone. Here are a few job search tips ...

 
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5 Top Interview Mistakes

Jessica Silverstein
June 8 2011


The top 5 interview mistakes that I have seen repeatedly, and it is (VERY) difficult to choose just 5, are:

  • Candidates are unprepared. Either the job seekers don’t know enough about the company at which they are interviewing, enough about their own resumes, or they are unable to answer basic interview questions, for example their strengths and weaknesses.
  • Candidates appear sloppy. Either their hair and ...
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    5 Resume DOs and DON’Ts

    Jessica Silverstein
    May 17 2011


    Resume Do’s and Don’ts apply to everyone. But, like the law, there are rules and standards and consequences. For example, if you skip to the bottom of this post to find the link to the 5 Do’s and Don’ts you’ll miss a few additional rules. You wouldn’t skip the instructions on your exam would you!? Is this you: OH NO, I didn’t know it was open book!!!!! Keep...

     
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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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    PAY OFF Tweets

    Jessica Silverstein
    May 13 2010


    Does your resume rise to the Bar? IT WILL! We'll help your resume PAY OFF.

    If you missed any of my tweets earlier this week and all of last week about how Attorney's Counsel can help make your resume PAY OFF here they are:

    PAY OFF: PRESENTATION-Your resume must be easy to read! Think margins, spacing, title of doc you send & paper, bc some ppl still want hrdcpy

    PAY OFF: ACCOMPLISHMENTS-Quantify! What Problems...
     
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