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Vocare: Law School Career Resource Gold!

Looking for some extremely useful legal career resources? Check out Vocare: blog of the Career and Professional Development Center here at the UMN Law School.
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Here is a sampling of recent helpful information posted on the blog:

Reference Q&A:
When you are the reference and you get the surprise call, you have two choices.
(1) Be honest and say that you can?t provide a good reference because you don?t know the candidate well enough to give a fair evaluation.
(2) Lie and give a glowing reference. Murphy's Law says that this will come back to haunt you. And, you'll feel sick about it.
Read more (including a third choice)...

Create an unofficial transcript
Follow these directions from the Registrar. This links to CAREERFILES on the CPDC website.

First steps in an alternative career search: GoldPASS - the University's job resource
Because most law-trained people pay scant attention to what other people do for a living (unless they are Workers' Compensation lawyers), one important early step in a search for an alternative career is to reconnect with other career paths.
The easiest way to begin is to read a lot of job descriptions very carefully, to begin to understand how functions are described and categorized. This helps you to think about those functions and how your own skills and experience can be described to meet hiring criteria in a non-law setting. These are your transferable skills.
Read more...

Vocare is available at: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/lawcso/vocare/ and is updated regularly.

Full post as published by LexLibris on May 29, 2008 (boomark / email).