The Five Reasons Law Firms and Legal Employers Do Not Hire You After an Interview By Harrison Barnes from Los Angeles Office Managing Director Listen to This Podcast on: A law firm cannot survive if it hires improperly. Once someone invites you for an interview, they do not care about your resume. They care about five different issues entirely--and the better you understand these, the better off you will be. Almost always, you get disqualified by one of these five questions that every employer asks themselves about you. Once someone invites you for an interview, they do not care about your resume. They care about five different issues entirely--and the better you understand these, the better off you will be. Your resume says most of what needs to be said. A legal employer may say after an interview that they are not hiring you because "your experience is not right," but that is rarely true. The reason legal employers do not hire you is almost always because you are disqualified by one of the five questions below that every employer asks themselves about you. See also: What Should I Do If I Don't Hear Back After a Good Interview?
The 5 Things Legal Employers Want to Know About You: 1. Will This Attorney Support Me and Have My Back?
Being an attorney is very difficult. The legal world is full of people who continuously question you, tell you that you are not good enough, undermine you, and exclude you. Most attorneys feel very much alone--regardless of who they are. Very few attorneys get into the law school they want to, get interviews with all the law firms they want to, have clients that are pleased with them all the time, are not undermined by peers, are never laid off or fired, or are not humiliated in front of their colleagues. Every attorney has countless insecurities. It is hard to imagine just how alone and unprotected many attorneys feel. Success is no insulator against feeling alone. The more successful an attorney is, the more likely they are to feel attacked--their primacy challenged both internally by peers and externally by their opponents. Lawyers want more than anything to have other lawyers around them who have their back, but they rarely find this. They want and value this above all else. If you understand interviewing and practicing law, you will rarely lose a job, not get a job, or have issues getting clients and advancing--if people believe you have their back. People need to believe this earnestly, and you need to deliver. The employer wants to hire you by the time you are asked to come in for an interview. They hope you will work out and be a good fit. It costs a lot of money and time to interview. However, most employers are not stupid and do not want to make mistakes. The quality of a law firm is measured by the quality of its people. A
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