Kellogg Change in Hiring Practices? Forum

[Anonymous User]

Has Kellogg moved away from their practice of only hiring COA clerks? They hired a few people straight out of school and several of them do not have COA lined up (of those, a few don't have any clerkships lined up at all).

Hadn't heard of them hiring straight out of school before and certainly hadn't heard of them hiring people without any clerkships lined up. Anyone have any idea if/why they are moving their hiring practices around?

Seems kinda surprising to liberalize your hiring process when the rest of the market is contracting

[Sackboy]

Has Kellogg moved away from their practice of only hiring COA clerks? They hired a few people straight out of school and several of them do not have COA lined up (of those, a few don't have any clerkships lined up at all).

Hadn't heard of them hiring straight out of school before and certainly hadn't heard of them hiring people without any clerkships lined up. Anyone have any idea if/why they are moving their hiring practices around?

Seems kinda surprising to liberalize your hiring process when the rest of the market is contracting

Some firms, like Kellogg, have realized that they're splitting hairs when quibbling over credentials and cutting their pool of excellent candidates by 50%. Hiring only COA 26 year olds is only useful if those people are materially better than DCt 26 year olds or magna cum laude 25 year olds without clerkships. Feel free to +-3-4 years on the age. Numbers were only used as an example.

[Anonymous User]

Has Kellogg moved away from their practice of only hiring COA clerks? They hired a few people straight out of school and several of them do not have COA lined up (of those, a few don't have any clerkships lined up at all).

Hadn't heard of them hiring straight out of school before and certainly hadn't heard of them hiring people without any clerkships lined up. Anyone have any idea if/why they are moving their hiring practices around?

Seems kinda surprising to liberalize your hiring process when the rest of the market is contracting

Some firms, like Kellogg, have realized that they're splitting hairs when quibbling over credentials and cutting their pool of excellent candidates by 50%. Hiring only COA 26 year olds is only useful if those people are materially better than DCt 26 year olds or magna cum laude 25 year olds without clerkships. Feel free to +-3-4 years on the age. Numbers were only used as an example.

Seems like the people were cum laude but not magna. I had just thought they were pretty credential sensitive, kinda kicking myself for not applying haha

[Anonymous User]

I think only 2 people at Kellogg meet this description, and they bring unique features to the table. I wouldn't view that as a change in hiring practices. Kellogg recently got back a SCOTUS clerks and a lot of COA/T6 summa types.

[Anonymous User]

I know one of the recent hires with unusual resumes and their partner is a KH associate, which I assume has something to do with their hiring.

Also lol at the Kellogg associate listed as “summa cum laude” from Chicago Law, which doesn’t have Latin honors, and in any case the associate in question didn’t even graduate with the magna equivalent. If anyone here is at KH you should get your website people to fix that, it’s glaring to anyone familiar with the Chicago grading system.

[Anonymous User]

I know one of the recent hires with unusual resumes and their partner is a KH associate, which I assume has something to do with their hiring.

Also lol at the Kellogg associate listed as “summa cum laude” from Chicago Law, which doesn’t have Latin honors, and in any case the associate in question didn’t even graduate with the magna equivalent. If anyone here is at KH you should get your website people to fix that, it’s glaring to anyone familiar with the Chicago grading system.

It's clearly just a website error. His bio correctly states that he graduated with honors. Maybe the summa came from undergrad.

[Anonymous User]

I think only 2 people at Kellogg meet this description, and they bring unique features to the table. I wouldn't view that as a change in hiring practices. Kellogg recently got back a SCOTUS clerks and a lot of COA/T6 summa types.

what unique features do they bring?