Ok to put SA on resume before starting? Forum

[20141023]

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[sparty99]

I don't see the harm in posting this to linkedin. I updated my 1L linkedin profile with my summer job. It is your professional platform. I think it would take an extremely sensitive to get upset about this. Especially since 1L summer jobs aren't a sensitive subject in re employment.

Not sure why you're posting this anon, but I think you're missing the point. 1L is a very stressful time for most law students. When you start seeing people around you posting about their jobs, you start getting anxious, especially when others are getting offers while you're getting dings. For example, we had like 5 employers come to our small "Winter OCI" for 1L summer. Most of the people got dinged after the first round of screeners (about 20 interviewed at each firm and only 2 got callbacks). We had people posting things on FB like, "Wish me luck, I'm going to my callback interview at firm X!" when they knew that their classmates got dinged. Those same people had sent out mass invites on LinkedIn at the beginning of the year to the other 1Ls, and then updated their profiles as soon as they got jobs.

I am all for updating your status on LinkedIn because that is actually the only real benefit that shitty site has to offer. However, if you go out of your way to "link" with people you don't really know just because they're in your class, then you can and should at least wait until the last 1L finals are over to start posting your status update on there. If you only passively accept invitations and want to update your LinkedIn profile sooner, I can understand that. However, it is the people who actively try to link up with every single person they've ever met that also use LinkedIn and Facebook almost like a Twitter account with no filter.

Get over it and cry me a river. This is law school. Not the Mickey Mouse Club.

[20141023]

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[Flash31]

IMO, if your purpose is to use the information to further your own professional development, by all means, update away. LinkedIn and resume updates seem reasonably justifiable.

There is a lot to be said about humility and respecting others during their struggles. Disseminating SA information for the purpose of bragging reflects poorly on one's character.

[sparty99]

Get over it and cry me a river. This is law school. Not the Mickey Mouse Club.

Would you post your law school grades on FB or LinkedIn as soon as you got them during 1L? Would you think that is something "professional" to do? Posting your job early in the semester is pretty much doing the same thing. Yes, some people are "winners" and some people are "losers" when it comes to both grades and jobs - that is how the curve works. However, if you've gone out of your way to link up with a bunch of people from your school, then it is douchey rub your job in their faces, especially if there is approximately 0 benefit to you. If you want someone to congratulate you, call your grandmother.

If I had such a problem with that, then I would a) not be their facebook friend or b) not be a LinkedIn connection. Facebook isn't meant to be professional.

[FuturePanhandler]

I don't see the harm in posting this to linkedin. I updated my 1L linkedin profile with my summer job. It is your professional platform. I think it would take an extremely sensitive to get upset about this. Especially since 1L summer jobs aren't a sensitive subject in re employment.

Not sure why you're posting this anon, but I think you're missing the point. 1L is a very stressful time for most law students. When you start seeing people around you posting about their jobs, you start getting anxious, especially when others are getting offers while you're getting dings. For example, we had like 5 employers come to our small "Winter OCI" for 1L summer. Most of the people got dinged after the first round of screeners (about 20 interviewed at each firm and only 2 got callbacks). We had people posting things on FB like, "Wish me luck, I'm going to my callback interview at firm X!" when they knew that their classmates got dinged. Those same people had sent out mass invites on LinkedIn at the beginning of the year to the other 1Ls, and then updated their profiles as soon as they got jobs.

I am all for updating your status on LinkedIn because that is actually the only real benefit that shitty site has to offer. However, if you go out of your way to "link" with people you don't really know just because they're in your class, then you can and should at least wait until the last 1L finals are over to start posting your status update on there. If you only passively accept invitations and want to update your LinkedIn profile sooner, I can understand that. However, it is the people who actively try to link up with every single person they've ever met that also use LinkedIn and Facebook almost like a Twitter account with no filter.

Get over it and cry me a river. This is law school. Not the Mickey Mouse Club.

Yeah seriously. If seeing other people have success makes you that butthurt, then find a different pursuit. Perhaps become a T-ball coach, where everyone gets a trophy and the score doesn't matter! Having said that, I completely agree with what others have said regarding FB. It's lame and girly.

[Anonymous User]

I don't see the harm in posting this to linkedin. I updated my 1L linkedin profile with my summer job. It is your professional platform. I think it would take an extremely sensitive to get upset about this. Especially since 1L summer jobs aren't a sensitive subject in re employment.

Not sure why you're posting this anon, but I think you're missing the point. 1L is a very stressful time for most law students. When you start seeing people around you posting about their jobs, you start getting anxious, especially when others are getting offers while you're getting dings. For example, we had like 5 employers come to our small "Winter OCI" for 1L summer. Most of the people got dinged after the first round of screeners (about 20 interviewed at each firm and only 2 got callbacks). We had people posting things on FB like, "Wish me luck, I'm going to my callback interview at firm X!" when they knew that their classmates got dinged. Those same people had sent out mass invites on LinkedIn at the beginning of the year to the other 1Ls, and then updated their profiles as soon as they got jobs.

I am all for updating your status on LinkedIn because that is actually the only real benefit that shitty site has to offer. However, if you go out of your way to "link" with people you don't really know just because they're in your class, then you can and should at least wait until the last 1L finals are over to start posting your status update on there. If you only passively accept invitations and want to update your LinkedIn profile sooner, I can understand that. However, it is the people who actively try to link up with every single person they've ever met that also use LinkedIn and Facebook almost like a Twitter account with no filter.

Original anon who posted about SA info on LinkedIn --

I think I have maybe <5 of my actual law school friends added on my linkedin profile, and those people added me. So it's not like it would broadcast anything to the class. I just wanted to know if it was bad form to add the summer job before starting for professional purposes, I'm fully atune to the social consequences of using facebook as a soundboard for your own academic/professional shit. Anyway, I like the wait a couple wks into the job idea.

[bk1]

I honestly don't see how adding information early on LinkedIn is professionally beneficial. I still think it's bad form to put things on LinkedIn that you haven't actually done yet, but that sort of logic doesn't apply to resumes (e.g. you would put a 2L SA on your resume for clerkship applications that you send out during 2L spring).

[Hipster but Athletic]

It's weird enough putting a job you're currently interning at on linkedin, and describing it, knowing that people in the office will read how you describe yourself. It's even fucking weirder to do it before you get there. Resume is fine because it's strictly being used by people who don't know you and want to know more about you.

[banjo]

I'll probably update my LinkedIn a few weeks in. I agree with everyone saying it's a faux pas to publish your summer job before finals. It's not a huge deal, but given a choice I would rather work with someone who's extra considerate in stressful times.

[IAFG]

Get over it and cry me a river. This is law school. Not the Mickey Mouse Club.

Wait you're in LS and would say this?! I doubt there is any culture or community in America as sensitive as LS to the slightest appearance of bragging, including any and all Mickey Mouse clubs.

[TooOld4This]

It's not that hard, people.
Don't post anything on FB that you wouldn't announce to a group of your classmates in person. (And if you completely lack a social filter, just don't talk about jobs or grades on FB.)

If you get upset by hearing about the academic or professional accomplishments of others, don't use LinkedIn. (And if you go to school with a bunch of people who can't tell the difference between a social network and platform for listing professional and academic accomplishments, don't link with any of your classmates until graduation -- frankly, I can't figure out why law students ever connect with each other during law school.)

[POTUS2044]

It's not that hard, people.
Don't post anything on FB that you wouldn't announce to a group of your classmates in person. (And if you completely lack a social filter, just don't talk about jobs or grades on FB.)

wtf? are there seriously schools where people get upset if you talk about this? Just chatting people at school in weeks leading up to summer people tend to ask what you're up to for the summer just because they're curious. jfc since when is talking about work plans taboo srs??

I wouldn't put it on LinkedIn until after you start. Not because of some anxiety about making a classmate sad but because people at the firm you're working at will find it probably find it pretty lulzy if they notice it before you even start

[JenDarby]

It's not that hard, people.
Don't post anything on FB that you wouldn't announce to a group of your classmates in person. (And if you completely lack a social filter, just don't talk about jobs or grades on FB.)

wtf? are there seriously schools where people get upset if you talk about this? Just chatting people at school in weeks leading up to summer people tend to ask what you're up to for the summer just because they're curious. jfc since when is talking about work plans taboo srs??

I wouldn't put it on LinkedIn until after you start. Not because of some anxiety about making a classmate sad but because people at the firm you're working at will find it probably find it pretty lulzy if they notice it before you even start

You're criticizing people's feelings about job postings while anonymously posting something that outs nothing about you.

[20141023]

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[A. Nony Mouse]

It's not that hard, people.
Don't post anything on FB that you wouldn't announce to a group of your classmates in person. (And if you completely lack a social filter, just don't talk about jobs or grades on FB.)

wtf? are there seriously schools where people get upset if you talk about this? Just chatting people at school in weeks leading up to summer people tend to ask what you're up to for the summer just because they're curious. jfc since when is talking about work plans taboo srs??

I wouldn't put it on LinkedIn until after you start. Not because of some anxiety about making a classmate sad but because people at the firm you're working at will find it probably find it pretty lulzy if they notice it before you even start

There's a big difference between having a conversation with people where they ask you about your life, and posting about your job on FB.

[JenDarby]

It's weird enough putting a job you're currently interning at on linkedin, and describing it, knowing that people in the office will read how you describe yourself. It's even fucking weirder to do it before you get there. Resume is fine because it's strictly being used by people who don't know you and want to know more about you.

this is so true.