This isn't necessarily a "miracle clerkship" thread, but anyone else go over the massive pile of resumes and think "how did i get this job?"
Makes you realize how random clerkship hiring is. I could pick any resume out of the pile and get a great candidate.
I don't have any advice to clerkship applicants either, my judge does all the hiring, I'm not involved at all.
Anyone else wonder how they got their clerkship? Forum
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ZyzzBrah
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KMart
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Re: Anyone else wonder how they got their clerkship?
Humble brag?
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Re: Anyone else wonder how they got their clerkship?
imKMart wrote:Humble brag?
it pisses me off when ppl say this! No OP wasn't bragging -- he was doing almost the exact opposite (saying he is thankful for his position and that there was a large factor of LUCK).
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ZyzzBrah
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Re: Anyone else wonder how they got their clerkship?
lol thanks anon
Im not at a competitive court or anything either. Im just more amazed at how random it is, there are people in the stack of resumes who went to better schools/are higher ranked in their class--in other words, nothing really distinguishes candidate A from candidate B on paper. At the end of the day, I think it was just being in the right place in the stack to get an interview.
Im not at a competitive court or anything either. Im just more amazed at how random it is, there are people in the stack of resumes who went to better schools/are higher ranked in their class--in other words, nothing really distinguishes candidate A from candidate B on paper. At the end of the day, I think it was just being in the right place in the stack to get an interview.
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Desert Fox
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Re: Anyone else wonder how they got their clerkship?
Nobody cares you are clerking in the Eastern District of Bumfuck Egypt, Trailer Park Division.
HTH
HTH
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FSK
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Re: Anyone else wonder how they got their clerkship?
A trailer + plot of land in my home market is less than a year of rent in DC. Not a bad tradeoffDesert Fox wrote:Nobody cares you are clerking in the Eastern District of Bumfuck Egypt, Trailer Park Division.
HTH
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Desert Fox
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Re: Anyone else wonder how they got their clerkship?
Probably more spacious too. Doublewide or bust doeflawschoolkid wrote:A trailer + plot of land in my home market is less than a year of rent in DC. Not a bad tradeoffDesert Fox wrote:Nobody cares you are clerking in the Eastern District of Bumfuck Egypt, Trailer Park Division.
HTH
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ZyzzBrah
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Re: Anyone else wonder how they got their clerkship?
Desert Fox wrote:Nobody cares you are clerking in the Eastern District of Bumfuck Egypt, Trailer Park Division.
HTH
but its for the chief judge in ED Bum.Egypt
Edit: and yes, double wide
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Re: Anyone else wonder how they got their clerkship?
The timing of your application can be very important. I was on the east coast when I applied for my west coast clerkship and I happened to do so right as I got the daily OSCAR email at 7am (I woke up early for no good reason and all I had to do was fix the header and salutation so it took about a minute to apply). I later found out that I was the first person to apply and the hiring clerk went through the first 10 applicants a few hours later, called a handful of us to interview for 15 minutes, then called a few of us to interview with the judge.ZyzzBrah wrote:lol thanks anon
Im not at a competitive court or anything either. Im just more amazed at how random it is, there are people in the stack of resumes who went to better schools/are higher ranked in their class--in other words, nothing really distinguishes candidate A from candidate B on paper. At the end of the day, I think it was just being in the right place in the stack to get an interview.
Turns out they needed someone right away, didn't want to interview a ton of people, and I was the only one willing and able start a few weeks later (that they liked), so I got the job.
Granted, it's a chambers that doesn't care about prestige/grades too much (they value work experience and demonstrated ability), but my timing was a huge factor in why I got hired.
