LinkedIn’s “Open to Work” Badge: Yes or No?

On June 18, 2023

On your LinkedIn profile, you can choose to display an Open to Work badge. And then you can choose whether everyone can view it or just recruiters. As a recruiter, does the badge influence whether I contact the person? Spoiler alert: no. I have never run a search selecting for people who are Open to […]

Interview, Market, Timing, Uncategorized

Yes, Interviews ARE Taking Longer, for a Lot of Reasons

On May 28, 2023

It’s not your imagination. Interview cycles are taking longer. Why? This recent WSJ article addresses the reasons. In a nutshell: “Hiring for the office set is slowing down and employers are getting picky again.” Factors listed that I also have seen accounting for the increased time to land a job: Hard for employers to get […]

Career Tips, Change, Market, Move, Timing

2 Helpful Resources for Job Seekers

On May 21, 2023

Helpful resources for job seekers in today’s market are Layoffs.fyi and its sister site Comprehensive.io. The NYT recently profiled the founder of both, Roger Lee, a San Francisco entrepreneur, for “catalog[uing] hundreds of thousands of tech job cuts.” Interesting insights: The founder believes the industry will “100 percent” bounce back. I agree. I have lived […]

Compensation, Market

Inflation! Should You Be Expecting a Raise This Year? Spoiler Alert: No (Unless You are Very Special)

On May 7, 2023

WSJ reports a disconnect on worker versus employer expectations on raises this year. A majority of workers expect a bump because of inflation and rising cost of living, while employers struggle to contain costs. What do I foresee for lawyers? They have already received big raises and bonuses (including off-cycle ones) 2021 and 2022 as “employers […]

Change, Departure, Market

How Companies Decide Who Gets Cut

On April 30, 2023

In this time of layoffs, how do companies decide who has to go? WSJ reports that in the past companies often laid off the junior employees first. Now, however, these five factors guide who is laid off: Deprioritized skills Deprioritized business Pay (too high) Job performance (poor) Percentage of the company cuts (across the board) […]

Job Search, Market

Where Are the Jobs?

On April 16, 2023

In this down market, you may be wondering who is hiring. I’m busy scouting out this information for you, and this is what I’ve seen/heard: New technologies always need lawyers. An unsettled area like AI definitely falls in this category. See NYT article about the AI boom on how “lawmakers struggle to understand the technology.” […]

Market

What’s the Latest on the Job Market?

On March 30, 2023

I recently spoke about current legal hiring on a panel with Julieta Stubrin hosted by Silicon Legal Strategy. Some highlights: Although hiring has slowed down significantly since the pandemic boom, it has not zeroed out. Julieta and I agreed hiring is still better than the financial crisis (’07-’08) and the dotbomb (’00). The jury is out […]

Interview, Job Search, Market, Recruiter

Job Searching in a Downturn

On January 29, 2023

How do you conduct a job search in Silicon Valley in a downturn? The analysis of this tech expert‘s job hunt post-Meta is on-point. He spent three months from beginning to end, with the goal of landing somewhere he’d “be happy learning and growing for at least 4-5 years” in an industry interesting to him. He tracked […]

Market

The State of In-House Hiring: A View from the Trenches

On October 16, 2022

The US economy is full of question marks (e.g., Wall Street Braces for an Earnings Season of Mixed Signals per NYT), and the IMF warns of a global slowdown, citing inflation and rising interest rates, war in Ukraine, slowdown in China, COVID, etc. How do these conditions affect legal hiring in-house? This is what I’m […]

Career Management, Career Tips, Change, Departure, Market, Timing

5 Non-Obvious Signs of Impending Layoff

On September 25, 2022

As the risk of recession increases, here’s a good article on how to tell if your company is about to do layoffs (beyond if you see a steep drop in revenue or a threat emerge to the business model). I survived multiple rounds of layoffs when I was in-house, and these ring true to me: […]

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