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Law school students using LinkedIn : It's a no brainer

By Kevin OKeefe

Sitting back and waiting for the law school placement office to find you a job or relying on a clerking position to springboard you to a $150,000 associate job is little dicey in this economy and the age of law firm downsizing. Fortunately, there's a great way for law students to build out a resume and begin networking. It's LinkedIn, the leading professional directory - for lawyers and all other professions. And rather than it being a static resume that's impossible to distinguish from another, you get a live resume that's updated with your career focused activity in law school. As a hiring employer, I look at someone's LinkedIn profile before anything else. I then run various Google searches to get a feel for a candidate's background. Talking to other employers, I'm finding I'm pretty typical...continue to full post

Full post as published by Real Lawyers : Have Blogs on April 11, 2009 (boomark / email).