GOOD LUCK

We would like to wish all our Gators taking the Bar exam today the best of luck from the Center for Career Development!

LexisNexis Lend a Hand Program

New LexisNexis Program offers FREE Marketing Services, Networking, and Employment Resources to Laid Off Attorneys

LexisNexis® has launched the Lend a Hand program to provide free marketing services, networking, and employment resources to attorneys who have been laid off in recent months due to economic hardship facing their former firms. The program is offered through the LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell® business and is available to all U.S.-based attorneys who recently worked for a large law firm with over 50 attorneys and are currently unemployed. The Lend a Hand program is a free service created to help attorneys promote their personal brand, build and leverage a trusted professional legal network, and access jobs and employment resources available via Martindale-Hubbell.

The program runs through the end of August. For more infomation please visit: www.lexisnexis.com/lendahand.

D.C. Job Search

Looking for the Right Legal Job in a Volatile Climate: How to Make Yourself Attractive to Potential Employers

When: Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Time: 12:00-2:00 pm

Where: Henrichsen Siegel, PLLC 1150 Connecticut Ave, NW, Suite 900 Washington, DC 20036

Price: Free - BADC members / $10 non-members / $5 students

Finding a job in today's legal market can be intimidating, but there is hope. Bring your lunch and get tips on how to make yourself a stand-out job candidate from D.C.'s most knowledgeable recruiters and practitioners.

Join us for this brown bag lunch event with the following panelists: Arthur Polott, Esq., Legal Recruiter, Gateway Legal Placements Anjuma Goswami, Esq., Solo and Small Firm Practitioner, BADC YLS Board Member Bonnie Horowitz, Legal Recruiter Deborah Katz Solomon, Esq., Executive Coach for Lawyers, Acuity Legal Consulting Moderator: Natalie Koss, Esq., Chair, Solo and Small Firm Practice Committee, BADC YLS Board Member

Register online at http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http://www.badc.org/i4a/calendar/details.cfm?id=213&urlhash=dswT&_t=disc_detail_link

Second Career

Tips for your Second Career

Here are some tips that may help you with your transition:

• Determine how your prior experience will make you a better lawyer, manager, researcher, etc. For example, do you have better writing, presentation, organizational or interpersonal skills.
  
• Bring up your prior experience and why it makes you a better candidate for the job even if the employer does not.


• Have a thoughtful answer to the "Why law school?" questions.
  
• Help interviewers make sense of your prior job shifts.

Please contact us for more tips or if you need any assistance in your career search.

Labor Statistics

U.S. Department of Labor

Bureau of Labor Statistics

Do you need more information on an occupation? View the Career Guide to Industries (CGI) an online tool which will help you determine:

• Occupations in specific industries



• Training and advancement



• Compensation



• Expected job prospects



• Working conditions
  

This website provides very valuable information if you are considering moving to another state, for example you can check local unemployment rates, employment cost trends, local compensation and even international employment trends.

(Click on the each underlined word for more information)