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SHARED FROM Career Professionals' emails….

 

FROM Cover letters from the fall of 2008 ---

 

Not all people are criminals, but even criminals are people too

 

But then I realized that I was not applying to a stuffy ass federal prosecutor or corporate law job

 

Trial advocacy and the defense of the indignant are the two primary forces behind my study of the law.

 

As an inspiring defense attorney, I am particularly interested in working with the Public Defender Service.

I would appreciate an opportunity to discuss my qualifications and how foregoing a relationship would be mutually beneficial.

 

 “If assiduousness and passion were candy, then I would leave you with a mouthful of cavities.”

 

“My anal retentiveness to minute details is quite possibly one of my greatest strengths, not withstanding my sense of humor.”

 

“My interest in labor Relations and Employment started before my birth as my grandfather was a Treasurer for the AFL-CIO for

Canada

.”

 

 

FROM Interviews from the fall of 2008

 

Don’t walk in to the Hiring Partner’s office and say “I’d like to work here for a couple of years and then decide what I really want to do.”

 

Don’t post your rejections with commentary naming and slamming each individual firm.  Employers read blogs, too.

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If you do not see the issues raised by these sentences or behaviors, contact  your career services office immediately.

Susan Gainen, University of Minnesota Law School