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What job ads say vs What they mean
1. Mail/courier management, You’ll be the one printing off all the incoming correspondence, or sorting the outgoing correspondence into enve
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Survive Law
May 5, 20162 min read
Horrible (potential) bosses
Sometimes the interviewee needs to become the interviewer. Job interviews are just as much about you interviewing the firm as they are inter
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Survive Law
Oct 26, 20152 min read
22k Problems but a job ain’t one
There once was a magical job advertisement that would help solve the lack of employment opportunities for law graduates. Alas, there’s a cat
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Survive Law
Oct 13, 20152 min read
Golden rule for resumes: Short and professionally sweet.
Whether you are leaving the university nest and flying into the big world of scary jobs or you are looking for a casual pub job to cover tex
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Survive Law
Sep 3, 20153 min read
How to turn your internship into a job
I am in the enviable position of having left my part-time, low wage job in retail for part-time work at the community legal centre where I i
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Survive Law
Aug 6, 20153 min read
Finding legal work experience in unlikely places
“How can I get experience if you won’t give me a job?!” This is the question we all scream out after scrolling through the dozens of apparen
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Survive Law
Jun 18, 20153 min read
Tips and Tricks for your First Law Job
So you’ve got your first law job and you’re keen to put some of that legal learning into practice. If you’ve never worked in a law firm befo
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Survive Law
Sep 16, 20142 min read
Career Overkill
It’s no secret that this isn’t exactly the ideal time to be a law graduate. The competition for jobs is fierce and it begins long before gra
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Survive Law
Apr 21, 20143 min read
Work Experience Ideas for First Years
You’ve most likely heard the worrying news that now is one of the toughest times in recent history to be searching for a graduate legal job.
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Survive Law
Mar 6, 20142 min read
Kick Starting your Legal Career in First Year
Don’t let your year level discourage you from getting involved in the legal industry early. There are plenty of ways to wade into the ocean
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Survive Law
Dec 11, 20132 min read
Graduate Job Prospects a Leading Cause of Law Student Stress: Survey
If you’re worried about what you’ll do for work when you finish law school, you’re not alone. Uncertain job prospects after leaving law scho
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Survive Law
Nov 16, 20132 min read
Staying Motivated while Looking for Work Experience in a Bad Job Market
At a time when so many law students are struggling to find any kind of legal experience, it is hard not to become disheartened… or to fall i
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Survive Law
Sep 13, 20133 min read
Now what? Starting my Career in a Bad Job Market
I sometimes find it useful to start at the beginning. I wouldn’t say that my entry into the legal profession was unorthodox; it just wasn’t
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Survive Law
Aug 1, 20133 min read
How to Stand Out in the Job Market
“I’ll think about it later…” This is what I hear many students say when I ask them about their plans for after graduation. The idea of what
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Survive Law
Apr 24, 20133 min read
“I don’t know what to do with myself”: My Post-Law Life
I shudder as I see the flashing icon of a fellow law graduate pop up on my Facebook. Don’t get me wrong. I absolutely adore my fellow law al
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Survive Law
Apr 1, 20133 min read
Graduate Job Hunting… and Angry Birds
You thought that property law was the most horrific thing you had ever done, didn’t you? You thought that after 1,000 pages of equity and tr
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Survive Law
Mar 14, 20132 min read
Tips for your First ‘Serious’ Job
So you’ve got yourself a job. And I mean a job job. You’ve landed something that’s more than babysitting the neighbour’s kid or helping your
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Survive Law
Jan 2, 20131 min read
Life After Law School
Ask a first year student where they expect to be one year after law school and the answer might be “interning at the United Nations” or “wor
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Survive Law
Sep 13, 20123 min read
How to get your First Law Job
Breaking into the legal industry is not the easiest thing to do, but once you're in (and have that all important experience) you'll
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Wenee Yap
Aug 28, 20123 min read
You’re Hired! Careers in Legal Recruitment
We toil away our law school lives (ostensibly) towards the goal of becoming a lawyer, studying hard to hopefully end up a heroic legal icono
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