{"id":2635,"date":"2019-02-27T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T21:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/alumni\/?p=2635"},"modified":"2019-02-27T15:34:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T21:34:00","slug":"career-launch-interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/alumni\/2019\/02\/27\/career-launch-interviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Career Launch Interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We had an event planned in late January that was cancelled due to weather, and\u00a0select panelists and Career Professional Development counselors were gracious enough to answer the questions the moderator would have asked.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

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Interview I.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Did you know what you wanted to do with your law degree?
\n<\/strong>I thought I did.\u00a0 I went to law school with the idea of working with children in the law.<\/p>\n

How did you know?<\/strong>
\nAll my career aspirations revolved around working with children. I wanted to be a teacher, I volunteered in after-school programs, I nannied through college.<\/p>\n

At what point in your career or education did you know this?<\/strong>
\nIn my mind, I had known my goals at the start of law school.\u00a0 But, they quickly changed when I realized I\u2019m much more collaborative than adversarial.<\/p>\n

Who and what helped form your career path and goals? Did you create an intentional job search? How did you do this? What would you differently?
\n<\/strong>I tried out several different clerkships from work in a county attorney\u2019s office to real estate title work.<\/p>\n

How did volunteering, bar associations, or affinity groups play a role in determining and\/or fulfilling your career goals?<\/strong>
\nI volunteered in a prosecutor\u2019s office and was able to gain great courtroom experience.\u00a0 It helped me feel more comfortable with courtroom decorum and with communicating with judges and court staff. I also realized I had no desire to be in court.<\/p>\n

What do you now know that you wish you\u2019d known when you started your career<\/strong>
\nI wish I\u2019d networked more with people in other areas of the law. I should have learned more about all the jobs available to a law school graduate so I could have been more intentional about exploring different areas of work. I didn\u2019t seek out the advice of many people, but rather listened to only a few perspectives.<\/p>\n

Interview II.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Did you know what you wanted to do with your law degree?<\/strong>
\nGiven my degree\/interest in psychology I thought estate planning and elder law would be a good fit – highly interpersonal\/people focused.<\/p>\n

How did you know?<\/strong>
\nReally just a gut feeling – confirmed by the courses I took (or so I thought – reading cases isn’t much preparation for the reality of practicing).<\/p>\n

At what point in your career or education did you know this?<\/strong>
\nWhile in law school the only intentional job search strategy was to participate in OCI – I was a summer associate at a firm with an estate planning group. I was able to do work in that area and developed contacts. The firm had no intention on bringing me on as an associate but I didn’t know that.\u00a0 Overall, it was a good learning experience and the contacts I made led to my first job practicing and another became a contact at a different firm later in my career.<\/p>\n

Who and what helped form your career path and goals? Did you create an intentional job search? How did you do this? What would you differently?<\/strong>
\nMost of my positions have come about because of the contacts\/relationships I’ve made (and not necessarily in predictable ways).<\/p>\n

How did volunteering, bar associations, or affinity groups play a role in determining and\/or fulfilling your career goals?<\/strong>
\nI would have been more involved while in school – volunteered, taken clinics etc. There is so much more now!<\/p>\n

What do you now know that you wish you\u2019d known when you started your career<\/strong>
\nI’m not much of a long term planner – the question where do you see yourself in 5 yrs etc is not something I can answer and frankly something that doesn’t make sense to me.\u00a0 I see things much more fluidly and that’s really helped me see the value in my varied career path.<\/p>\n

Interview III.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Did you know what you wanted to do with your law degree?
\n<\/strong>No, I had no clue what I was going to do with my law degree when I started law school.\u00a0 I thought maybe I\u2019d be an entrepreneur and start my own business (even though I was not sure what kind of business it might be), and if that didn\u2019t work out, I\u2019d have a versatile degree to take into \u201ccorporate America.\u201d\u00a0 I didn\u2019t even contemplate private practice because I didn\u2019t know enough about it at the time.<\/p>\n

How did you know?<\/strong>
\nSee above.\u00a0 No clue.<\/p>\n

At what point in your career or education did you know this?
\n<\/strong>It wasn\u2019t until after my first year of law school when I was a summer associate at Lindquist & Vennum did I learned more about private practice and discovered that may be my career path.<\/p>\n

Who and what helped form your career path and goals? <\/strong>
\nWell, getting a permanent offer from Lindquist after my first summer essentially formed my path.\u00a0 As the proverbial saying goes, I received an offer I couldn\u2019t refuse, so I accepted and started in private practice right out of law school.<\/p>\n

Did you create an intentional job search? How did you do this? What would you differently?<\/strong>
\nI didn\u2019t. \u00a0I simply applied for all the summer associate positions that I possible could.\u00a0 I did some online searching, talked to career services, the Office of Diversity & Inclusion, and applied.<\/p>\n

How did volunteering, bar associations, or affinity groups play a role in determining and\/or fulfilling your career goals? <\/strong>
\nNetworking in general is important because you can learn about the practice and meet others who will be good sounding boards for advice and potential direct referrals for job opportunities.<\/p>\n

What do you now know that you wish you\u2019d known when you started your career?<\/strong>
\nI wish I would have started networking more seriously, sooner!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had an event planned in late January that was cancelled due to weather, and\u00a0select panelists and Career Professional Development counselors were gracious enough to answer the questions the moderator would have asked.\u00a0   Interview I. Did you know what you wanted to do with your law degree? I thought I did.\u00a0 I went to … <\/p>\n

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