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The tighter job market, and eliminating me, me, me & I, I, I.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

 Image from Library of Congress's website. The job market is tightening for all jobs, including law jobs. When applying for jobs before and during law school, I often felt that plenty of employers were non-feeling and too unfair. Now that I am on the hiring end, I feel that many qualified candidates are not getting their point across succinctly and persuasively enough to get a job interview and to be hired, and that many underqualified candidates do not appear underqualified at first blush, thus calling for careful screening by employers of job candidates (although I do not support going as far as doing drug testing and privacy-violative background checks). Here is some food for thought, in case it some of it has not already been bandied about ad nauseum, and is of any benefit to job seekers and employers:  - Your job application needs to speak to your audience...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on June 08, 2008 (boomark / email).