You graduated from high school and received a law degree. But both you and potential employers are well aware that without work experience in your specialty, you are not yet a full-fledged specialist, even if the color of your diploma is red. Now your task is to start your career, and it should start with the acquisition of practical experience. Therefore, be prepared to moderate your ambitions and look for a job at least as an assistant lawyer.
Instructions
Step 1
Check out the vacancies that exist in the labor market. Submit your resume not only to those law firms that are recruiting, but in general to all those that you know. Try to write your resume competently and correctly so that personnel officers mark it and leave it in the database, even if there are no vacancies in the company. Either way, there is a natural turnover rate, and your resume may remain as a fallback.
Step 2
If there is no answer to your resume yet, contact the state or municipal authorities that operate in the territory of the settlement in which you live. As a rule, due to low wages and the rather stressful nature of the work, turnover is quite high there. But on the other hand, you will have a chance to gain valuable experience and qualifications by working independently or under the guidance of lawyers with more experience.
Step 3
If you are satisfied with a legal company that offered you a vacancy for an assistant, then agree without hesitation. If you have the desire and ability to learn, you will also have the opportunity to gain valuable practical experience and see how professionals work. Starting with the preparation of the necessary documentation for the work of your lawyer boss, regulations, with summarizing and searching for information, you will be able to familiarize yourself with your professional activities and prove yourself. If you can prove yourself on the positive side, then you have every chance to continue your career in this company, but as a lawyer, not his assistant.
Step 4
In the event that you are lucky and you are offered a free vacancy for a lawyer, this option will require more responsibility and work from you - you will learn the basics of the profession not in training, but in battle. However, if you are ambitious and ready for this, relying on your strengths and believing in them, then go ahead, because everyone once started with this.
