Changing jobs can occur in many different ways. It can be a new opportunity with your current employer, moving to a new company, or starting your own venture. This change may come as a result of a voluntary move, or may be required by circumstances. In any event, such a change can be incredibly stressful. FindLaw's collection of articles on Changing Jobs provides you with a range of resources and tools to deal with this juncture in your career. Read further to learn about ways to make changing jobs a successful process, how to deal with a cut in salary, making a lateral move, notifying clients of your decision, and marketing yourself as a career development strategy.
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Changing Jobs Articles
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Marketing As A Career Development Strategy
Marketing As A Career Development Strategy by Stephen Seckler Once upon a time, law school graduates could join a firm right out of school, work hard for several years, do great legal work and expect to become a partner at the same firm.
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Salary Wars and Associate Hiring
As a recruiting firm, we talk to both partners and associates at firms in every major legal marketplace on a daily basis.
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Making a Lateral Move: Are You Ready?
Accepting an entry level job at a law firm is a big career hurdle for a law student. It is a goal that took years of hard work and academic achievement to reach. But at some point, young associates should set new career goals.
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Lawyers See Benefit in Professional Coaching
Individualism is deeply ingrained in the culture of the United States. We live in a country where anyone can make it if they work hard enough. But lurking behind this mythology lies a stark reality: In today's economy, no one truly makes it on their own.
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Inexpensive Ways to Build Business Relationships
Selling legal services is all about relationship building. Since legal consumers hire attorneys who they trust (either directly or because someone they trust has made a referral), it is not difficult to see that building relationships is the best way to build a law practice.
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Net Resumes: Let Yours Grab Great Opportunities
When crafted carefully, your well-written, well-formatted résumé will have all the attributes needed to attract positive attention, whether it is mailed to a hiring manager, scanned and searched in a management system, or indexed in an Internet site.
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A Matter of Networking or Not Working: Five Tips for Career Success
Networking is by far the most effective way to land a new position. Of all the job search techniques available, networking remains the most popular method used by the individuals in career transition to help find a new job.
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Why Law Firms Should Use Outplacement Services
What does a law firm do when it has to let an associate go? Downsizing requires significant planning and know-how. Law firms must consider the financial, morale, and public relations effects of any human relations move they make.
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When Changing Careers May Mean a Cut in Salary
As you proceed in pursuing your career change, you might experience a reduction in pay. With this possibility in mind, you need to know just how low you're willing (and able) to go, so that you are in a position to respond appropriately.
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Strategies for Overcoming Fears of Change and Failing
The average American will work for ten different employers, keep each job 3.6 years, and change careers three times before retiring. With career-related and general forecasts of change, people who are flexible and adaptable will be better off.