Will my work experience count for anything? Forum

[redfox7]

I have two years experience working in call centers for two relatively large companies in health care/ health insurance. I have some decent knowledge about the industry and have spoke to countless people but would this type of work experience mean anything to an admissions board? It's obviously not legal work or a prestigious internship but it's not bagging groceries either...

[Desert Fox]

[urbanist11]

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[redfox7]

I have two years experience working in call centers for two relatively large companies in health care/ health insurance. I have some decent knowledge about the industry and have spoke to countless people but would this type of work experience mean anything to an admissions board? It's obviously not legal work or a prestigious internship but it's not bagging groceries either...

lol call center work is worse than bagging groceries. At least the bagger gets to solve how to best bag the stuff.

I won't argue that one bit...

[lymenheimer]

I won't argue that one bit...

I'm not sure if you took offense to DF, and even if you didn't, I would suggest to search through the different forums and threads, because your question has been answered in numerous others.

[redfox7]

I won't argue that one bit...

I'm not sure if you took offense to DF, and even if you didn't, I would suggest to search through the different forums and threads, because your question has been answered in numerous others.

I didn't take any offense, I should've included an "lol."

[Tiago Splitter]

6 year call center vet here. The WE isn't going to do much for you for admissions purposes. But in the future it can help you with jobs as long as you don't tell people it's call center work. Just say things like "assisted clients with XYZ" on your resume.

[Companion Cube]

6 year call center vet here. The WE isn't going to do much for you for admissions purposes. But in the future it can help you with jobs as long as you don't tell people it's call center work. Just say things like "assisted clients with XYZ" on your resume.

How do you expect them to keep people from knowing what it was? People will ask, especially if it's really vague on your resume.

[Desert Fox]

[Tiago Splitter]

6 year call center vet here. The WE isn't going to do much for you for admissions purposes. But in the future it can help you with jobs as long as you don't tell people it's call center work. Just say things like "assisted clients with XYZ" on your resume.

How do you expect them to keep people from knowing what it was? People will ask, especially if it's really vague on your resume.

By the time they ask you're already in good shape. At that point you can fashion a nuanced answer that explains what you learned.

[JCougar]

It may matter a bit to some schools who want to say they admitted only x% of K-JDs.

However, I doubt this kind of experience will be much of a boost for employment--and that's not entirely unrelated to whether a school will see it as a plus for admissions purposes. You need something at least tangentially important to understanding law in a particular area. GPA and your school's OCI connections (loosely correlated with US News rank, but there are some differences) are like 85% of the battle, and beyond that your interviewing skills make up most of the remaining 15%. The only exceptions I've seen that make a significant difference beyond this is URM status (though to a lesser degree than admissions), IP-eligible, and combat veteran status.

Non-patent w/e is more of a tie-breaker with other, equally school/class ranked people.