Law Students

Getting the Good Work: Breaking Down the Barriers to the Old Boys Club

By Ms. JD

Editor's Note: Ms. JD's annual conference, Avenues to Advancement, was held November 20-21 in Chicago.  These are some insights shared by the panelists during "Getting the Good Work: Breaking Down the Barriers to the Old Boys Club"

Depending on your career goals, ?good work? will mean different things to different people. But if you?re aspiring to a position of influence and executive-level compensation, the good work is that which develops a certain skill set, involves a level of responsibility, and includes client contact and credit. This panel of law firm partners and a career coach discussed how to figure out who?s getting access to that good work and why. Here are a few points made by the panelists... 

Seek out different mentors for different purposes: A piece of advice that was repeated multiple times at this panel and during the conference was that you need mentors--yes, that's "mentors" not "a mentor"--so you need more than one.  

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Full post as published by Ms. JD on December 08, 2009 (boomark / email).