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"Some Suggested Career Assessments for Lawyers and Caveats to Consider before Choosing"

This post was written by StephanieWestAllen: "Excerpt from Career Assessment Update for Laid-Off Lawyers (Lawyer Avenue):

...Now, with the country's unemployment hovering around 10% -- and summer just around the corner -- many professionals are on the hunt for the right job. But what job?

To the rescue are a handful of effective, inexpensive online career-assessment tests that aim to help unemployed lawyers and others identify suitable jobs and work environments.

The first four were recently identified in the Wall Street Journal (April 22, 2010), and we at LawyerAvenue found a half-dozen other assessments that are definitely worth considering:

Click to read the rest of Career Assessment Update for Laid-Off Lawyers.

To the Lawyer Avenue list, I'd add two assessments I highly recommend: Johnson O'Connor and Highlands. Both are excellent for making career choices; the information gleaned from them is comprehensive and more accurate than those gained from self-report tests..."

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Source: idealawg, 22 May 2010, reproduced with permission of the author.

Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on May 24, 2010 (boomark / email).