Career Management, Career Tips, Change, Departure, Women & Minorities

5 Take-Aways from ACC Facebook Career Advancement Talk (Aug. 20, 2018)

On September 3, 2018

If you were shut out of the sold-out ACC career advancement talk at Facebook featuring Zynga CLO Phuong Phillips, Facebook DGC Paul Grewal, and Chevron Chief IP Counsel Nicholas Leach, here are 5 pieces of advice from these senior legal execs: At the beginning of your career, take on as much work as you can, […]

Career Management, Career Tips, Interview, Presentation

Ghosting by Candidates: Sign of an Overheated Economy

On August 26, 2018

I read this LinkedIn article about job seekers ghosting prospective employers. Usually, it’s the employer who disappears in the interview process, but in overheated times like these, candidates are starting to ghost employers and recruiters, I’m guessing because passively ghosting is the easiest thing to do in the short run. But (really, need I say […]

Career Management, Career Tips, Interview

How to Get Considered For Manager Roles When You’ve Never Managed Before: 5 Tips

On August 17, 2018

As you climb the corporate ladder and aspire to be a manager, you may notice these senior management jobs are rare and require applicants to already be managers. How can you be considered for a management role when you’ve never had direct reports? Five tips below. Work for a company that is growing quickly. You can then […]

Interview

The Easiest Interview Question … To Mess Up! 5 Ways to Get It Right.

On August 12, 2018

Can you actually fail an interview question asking you about yourself? Yes, yes you can. The very common interview question “Tell me about yourself” (or its close cousin “Walk me through your resume.”) is not a trick question – the interviewer wants to understand what you’ve done that’s relevant, why you’re interested/why this job makes […]

Career Management, Career Tips, Move

Don’t Plan Your Career Too Much in Advance. Follow These 3 Steps Instead!

On July 20, 2018

Conventional wisdom tells you to map out your career plan with concrete details. I like the advice of contrarians Sheryl Sandberg and Wharton Professor Adam Grant, who advise you not plan your career too much in advance — there’s so much you don’t know upfront, and technology is constantly changing! (In my case, before law […]

Career Tips

How to Get to Where You Need to Go!

On July 13, 2018

I recently read a good article on what successful people learned when they pushed through adversity. What worked for them: Make the time to work at your goal. If you don’t, it means you don’t want it enough. I meet lawyers who say they want to switch from litigation to transactional or from corporate to crypto […]

Career Management, Change, Departure

WSJ Reports Everyone is Job Hopping. Should I?

On July 8, 2018

The Wall Street Journal recently reported that “in this economy, quitters are winning!” The market is so strong that “workers are choosing to leave their jobs at the fastest rate since the internet boom 17 years ago and getting rewarded for it with bigger paychecks and/or more satisfying work.” Should you too? A few factors to […]

Career Management, Interview

What is the #1 Trait the Top Tech Founder Hires on?

On July 1, 2018

Jeff Bezos’s main criterion for promoting and hiring is not passion or IQ. It’s being right most of the time. Effective lawyers must have this ability. Indeed, our job is to predict likely outcomes and mitigate the downside. If we are any good, we are right most of the time and should have clear metrics of […]

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What Areas Are Hot for Lawyers (Summer 2018)?

On June 24, 2018

Usually recruiting grinds to a halt in the summer when people are more focused on their vacations than interviewing or recruiting. This summer, however, I am amazed by the number of active legal searches. What’s hot? I am seeing a lot of activity in these areas: Fintech, payments, and blockchain. Employers from startups to Fortune […]

Career Management, Career Tips, Presentation

5 Tips from Legal Execs at Stanford Conference!

On June 15, 2018

Stanford just held its 15th annual E-Commerce Best Practice Conference, where in-house leaders (from Microsoft, Sophos, Pinterest and Alation) gave their top tips on how to be a successful lawyer. The Recorder reported on the panel here, but here’s a quick summary: Know the business, which gives you credibility with clients ranging from engineers to product […]

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