1L summer job application apathy/encouragement thread Forum

[YourCaptain]

Welp, one more job application out. Edging closer and closer to unemployment for this summer. AWESOME. I guess top 25% at a T2 after first semester makes me unemployable. What the fuck.

How are your classmates doing?

[beach_terror]

Welp, one more job application out. Edging closer and closer to unemployment for this summer. AWESOME. I guess top 25% at a T2 after first semester makes me unemployable. What the fuck.

How are your classmates doing?

One with a worse GPA than me got a biglaw SA through diversity stuff. One has an RA gig. Other than that, I don't know what people are doing. I don't think it's my rank that's making me unemployable, I probably should have applied to more places than I can count on both hands.

[YourCaptain]

Welp, one more job application out. Edging closer and closer to unemployment for this summer. AWESOME. I guess top 25% at a T2 after first semester makes me unemployable. What the fuck.

How are your classmates doing?

One with a worse GPA than me got a biglaw SA through diversity stuff. One has an RA gig. Other than that, I don't know what people are doing. I don't think it's my rank that's making me unemployable, I probably should have applied to more places than I can count on both hands.

So you applied to only 10 places?

[Grizz]

Welp, one more job application out. Edging closer and closer to unemployment for this summer. AWESOME. I guess top 25% at a T2 after first semester makes me unemployable. What the fuck.

How are your classmates doing?

One with a worse GPA than me got a biglaw SA through diversity stuff. One has an RA gig. Other than that, I don't know what people are doing. I don't think it's my rank that's making me unemployable, I probably should have applied to more places than I can count on both hands.

I hate to be Hindsight Man here, but yeah man.

[beach_terror]

Welp, one more job application out. Edging closer and closer to unemployment for this summer. AWESOME. I guess top 25% at a T2 after first semester makes me unemployable. What the fuck.

How are your classmates doing?

One with a worse GPA than me got a biglaw SA through diversity stuff. One has an RA gig. Other than that, I don't know what people are doing. I don't think it's my rank that's making me unemployable, I probably should have applied to more places than I can count on both hands.

So you applied to only 10 places?

10-20 I'd say. I only apply to shit I have a reasonable shot at getting. The firm interviewing process kind of screwed me for judicial internships, but it's fine. I'll get something.

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[YourCaptain]

I hate to do this, but you can't just apply to stuff that you think you have a reasonable shot at. You have no clue what you have a shot at; you'll get acceptances you should not have gotten and rejections that you should have slamdunked.

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[Anonymous User]

I got an internship offer this week, to my surprise.

Me: 1L at a T14 (not HYS) with a below-median GPA, although when I sent out letters in December I didn't have grades yet (but UGPA was a respectable 3.6x).

The only summer jobs I sought out back in December were federal judicial internships in three different districts that are back home and in secondary markets. I wrote to active judges and active senior judges, but not magistrate judges. I applied to 16 judges total. I heard back from most of them pretty early. Some weren't taking summer interns, some were but had exclusive internship programs with the local law schools and I was ineligible (my law school is in a different part of the country). I was able to set up interviews with two federal judges over winter break. One went a bit poorly (I did things like say circuit court when I meant to say district court and asked some other dumb questions), while the other one went better (at least it felt that way), but I got a rejection letter from that judge a couple of weeks later. I'm sure it didn't help that my resume had a typo on it (wrong graduation year from undergrad -- I wrote 2010 by accident). One judge wrote me a letter saying that s/he didn't deal with internships until spring but that s/he'd contact me then if s/he was interested.

A few months went by and my job hunt was generally crappy. I put out bids for a public interest career fair in January or February, but I only landed one of my ten bids for an interview, which was supposed to be for something with the Small Business Administration, but leading up to the scheduled interview I got sick and mostly lost my voice and was in no condition to interview, so I withdrew from it. In March, I applied to an internship program to possibly intern for state-level judges in my home state, a process that only involved sending in a resume and the application (they don't interview for it), but I never heard back. Other than that, I hadn't applied for anything but was getting ready to apply to a bunch of R.A. gigs.

But, last week I got an e-mail from the judge who didn't deal with interns until spring. I'd figured that federal judicial internships were a lost cause until I got the e-mail. S/he wanted to set up a phone interview, which I had at some point this week. It was a conference call with the judge and his/her clerks. I wasn't really looking forward to the interview since I had never had a phone interview before and I figured that I'd screw it up somehow. But at the end of the interview, the judge made me an offer! I accepted and I'll be working back home this summer, at the closest federal courthouse to my hometown! I'm definitely excited and thrilled that I got this.

Meanwhile, I have a friend who goes to the same law school I do and has about the same grades. He didn't even start looking for jobs until about two weeks ago, when he sent out a ton of applications. This week he got two offers, one of which is an internship at his home state's AG's office (his state is around the middle of the pack in terms of population, and doesn't contain any primary markets). So there are definitely jobs to be found. Good luck to those of you still searching!

[Holly Golightly]

rejections that you should have slamdunked.

Not sure about the first part, but this is definitely true, especially during OCI.

I didn't even expect an interview from the place I'm going to be this summer. First part is possible.

[02122015]

rejections that you should have slamdunked.

Not sure about the first part, but this is definitely true, especially during OCI.

I didn't even expect an interview from the place I'm going to be this summer. First part is possible.

Yeah, even the fact that some people are horrible at their jobs while others are great at their jobs shows that hiring managers/etc often wind up making regrettable hiring choices. There's only so much you can gather from an interview/resume/application, etc. While these tools are good at weeding some obvious poor choices out, it's certainly no guarantee of hiring a good employee.

[TTH]

Checking in. Down to two applications still active. No jerb yet. t25% at a T1. fmllol

[YourCaptain]

Checking in. Down to two applications still active. No jerb yet. t25% at a T1. fmllol

# of apps?

[beach_terror]

This is the encouragement and apathy thread, not a critique of job search methodology.

[YourCaptain]

This is the encouragement and apathy thread, not a critique of job search methodology.

Look friend I'm not critiquing methodology, all I'm saying is PUMP THOSE APPS OUT. Look man I know your pain I was there.

[snowpeach06]

Got a job! But, I'm kind of concerned. It's with my school's office of government relations, but, they were so excited that i had a press background, that I think they want me doing all press stuff, and no legal stuff. At the same time, with only two weeks before finals, do I really want to be applying for more jobs? I need to figure it out by Thurs.

I e-mailed the one job that i really want doing IP. And I have an interview on Wens. I'm not sure if I should go to it or not. Also, I'm waiting to hear back from a trial court. Should I try e-mailing them, or assume its almost as bad of a job as this one. On the bright side, all my friends are going to be around this summer, since I'm paying rent anyway I may as well stay. Home is absurdly boring and the court is at home.

[forty-two]

Will being an RA for this summer be bad for OCI if I also have an internship with a regulatory agency (both are part time deals)? Sorry if this is a stupid question, but the whole discussion about employers not liking RAs is kind of scaring me.

[Stanford4Me]

Will being an RA for this summer be bad for OCI if I also have an internship with a regulatory agency (both are part time deals)? Sorry if this is a stupid question, but the whole discussion about employers not liking RAs is kind of scaring me.

No.

[cornellbeez]

Will being an RA for this summer be bad for OCI if I also have an internship with a regulatory agency (both are part time deals)? Sorry if this is a stupid question, but the whole discussion about employers not liking RAs is kind of scaring me.

Employers don't care what you do 1L summer, as long as it's legal. I know people who RAd with great GPAs and are headed to v10s.

[Coolgrnmen]

Will being an RA for this summer be bad for OCI if I also have an internship with a regulatory agency (both are part time deals)? Sorry if this is a stupid question, but the whole discussion about employers not liking RAs is kind of scaring me.

Employers don't care what you do 1L summer, as long as it's legal. I know people who RAd with great GPAs and are headed to v10s.

+1,000,000,000,000,000

We keep saying this over and over...
people that do nothing are at a disadvantage...RA is better than nothing...RA + something else is better than RA

[goosey]

still crickets chriping.

had an interview w a state judge thats an alum of my school and hes all about hiring a student from my school and liked me a lot..said ill hear back by friday. I have a good feeling about it.

still waiting on some other places. One place told me theyre still interviewing and I will hear back soon after I sent a follow up today.

frustrating.

[swc65]

How bad is doing nothing? I am waiting to hear back from two places that showed serious interest. If I don't get either of those, I probably won't be able to look again until after exams. It is too close to the end of classes for me to be focusing on summer job shit.

[najumobi]

anyone know if employers during 2L OCI care that a 2L with no contacts worked in their city during 1L summer?

[snowpeach06]

Also, as a random rant. This one girl, dumb, bitchy, just got a job with the Attorney General. I don't even get it. I know my grades are better than hers. I'm fairly sure shes at or below median. I figured AG's cared a lot about grades. Also, she has no connections to the area. Just moved here for law school. I have a ton of connections to the state. I mean, seriously.

[mths]

Also, as a random rant. This one girl, dumb, bitchy, just got a job with the Attorney General. I don't even get it. I know my grades are better than hers. I'm fairly sure shes at or below median. I figured AG's cared a lot about grades. Also, she has no connections to the area. Just moved here for law school. I have a ton of connections to the state. I mean, seriously.

hiring seems arbitrary to a point

but maybe she rocked the interview?