By Hillary Mantis
School is over. You don’t have a summer job yet, or you are trying to line up a job for fall. The job market’s still slow. How can you keep your job search going while the rest of the world is on vacation? Here are some easy ways to start:
By Hillary Mantis
Growth in the legal job market for about the next decade is expected to be average, according to the new Bureau of Labor Occupational Outlook Report. By “average,” they mean at an average pace for all occupations surveyed by the BLS.
By Hillary Mantis
Everyone says you have to network these days to get a job. And in fact you probably do. 9 out of 10 of you probably dread the thought, or are at least confused by what to do. How can you make the process less painful?
The legal job market is finally picking up, according to a recently released report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
There were 800 new jobs were added in February, the preliminary report said. This was the second month in a row that hiring increased in the legal sector.
The legal market had been shedding jobs throughout 2011, even as other sectors started to pick up towards the end of the year. The latest news indicates that the legal sector is now starting to follow national trends in other industries.
By Hillary Mantis
I recently heard a panel of legal career experts speak at a New York State Bar Association panel, “Jumpstart Your Job Search,” at their 2012 Career Development Conference in New York City.
Here are their tips that I thought would be helpful to anyone searching for a job:
On campus recruitment by U.S. law firms showed modest gains during the late summer and early fall of 2011, according to the National Association of Law Placement. It was the second year in a row that law firms recruited on the nation’s law school campuses in somewhat greater numbers, “reflecting some growing confidence by law firm leadership,” according to NALP.
This is one of the key findings of their just released Perspectives on Fall 2011 Law Student Recruiting report.
“The worst of the summer-hiring slump for law students may be over,” according to Thomson Reuters News and Insight.
An increase in transactional work, litigation work, and predictions that the firms may expect slightly higher revenue and earnings, account for the good news, the report said.
“Firms are making a very, very cautious return to summer hiring,” according to Paula Alvary, of the consulting firm Hoffman Alvary, who was interviewed in the report. “They are treading carefully, but they don’t want to be caught short two to three years from now,” she said.
The top 100 companies to work for right now include four law firms, according to Fortune Magazine’s new “100 Best Companies to Work for” list.
By Hillary Mantis
The number of lawyers employed by firms remained static in 2011, according to data recently released by Hildebrandt Institute’s Peer Monitor (a Thompson Reuters product.) However, there was movement in lateral hires, according to the recruiters surveyed.
By Hillary Mantis
The number of lawyers working part-time decreased slightly in 2011, for the first time in 17 years, according to a just released survey from The National Association for Law Placement.) The survey also revealed that a whopping 70 percent of lawyers working part-time are women.
Just 6.2 percent of lawyers were working part-time in 2011, down slightly from 6.4 percent in 2010, according to NALP’s analysis of their 2011-12 Directory of Legal Employers, which surveyed 1,269 individual law firms.