The Professional Paralegal Job Search: A Guide for Launching Your Legal Career

In this lively, practical paperback, Christofer French, a career counselor at the renowned Denver Paralegal Institute, helps your students package and present the particular skills and qualities they need to find and keep a paralegal job in today's increasingly competitive market. The author presents a full range of effective tools to launch a strategic job search--from successful interviewing techniques and resume-writing skills to follow-up and networking. Organized in eight chapters, this book also details job descriptions and expectations for various types of paralegal work, including government, litigation, in-house counsel, bankruptcy, and real estate, and provides your students strategies for approaching law firms of different sizes. Assign THE PROFESSIONAL PARALEGAL JOB SEARCH and help your students: customize skills for each job opening use the right "buzz words" choose which virtues and skills to highlight discover how to avoid being rejected as "overqualified" broach the money question in interviews make the strongest and most compelling presentations . . . and much more! Filled with sample cover letters, sample resumes, success stories from working paralegals, and an appendix that lists state-by-state paralegal professional organizations, this invaluable reference will assist students now and throughout their careers.