Weak candidate bidding strategies Forum

[Anonymous User]

I'm slightly below median at an MVP (40ish percentile), no journal, no work experience, basically an unimpressive candidate, and I'm wondering what my bidding strategy should be.


I know everyone on here seems to be of the opinion that a Vault rated firm for someone like me is a huge reach, but just about every employer participating in our OCR is a Vault rated firm, which makes coming up with a bidding strategy fairly complicated. We have virtually no non-firm employers coming as well. Do I just target the v50- v100 range and hope for the best?

[let/them/eat/cake]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JBvfZTx-vs

[olderlawyer]

I know humorous replies to this question are the easy way out but I think it deserves a thoughtful answer. I am a parent of a rising 2L, so I'm not one of your peers and therefore you should take what I have to say with a grain of salt. But what I'd tell you is that you need to view OCI as an exercise which may not have any value for you--but you're not at all alone in that situation. Plenty of people in your class with better credentials won't get interviews in a year like this. Talk to your career services people and put in a list of firms based upon what they say. They know when lightning struck for students last year. An interview will give you good experience even if it doesn't net you a callback--but not that many except those in the top 25% will get a callback, so don't expect much. Turn your attention to alternative ways to get a job for next summer--writing directly to firms, government agencies, public interest groups, etc.

[yellowjacket2012]

wow, I thought my mom was weird for being on Facebook, at least she's not on TLS, lol, I guess this is a little mean spirited.

[como]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JBvfZTx-vs

I can kind of see you doing that. You should do it at Latham.