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Hired: A Legal Career Podcast Wake Forest University School of Law
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Hired: A Legal Career Podcast is Wake Law OCPD's monthly podcast. Hired will feature a conversation between an OCPD career advisor and a practicing attorney about how that practitioner went from JD candidate to hired. Hired will break down the mechanics of the job search with a step-by-step accounting of the process that transcends frustrating generalities. Each story will resist the notion that only those in the top 25% are capable of finding meaningful employment.
Let's get Hired.
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Networking Obsession
On this newly formatted podcast, Professor Lee explores why the legal profession is so dependent on networking. Alan Bowie (JD '16), Senior Legal Counsel at BIC, and Elizabeth Goodwin (JD '08), Assistant Director of Wake Law's Office of Career and Professional Development, Employer Outreach, stop by to offer their own explanations. Plus, using his own success story as an example, Alan provides thoughtful and detailed advice regarding how to build fruitful and meaningful professional relationships.
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The Networking Experts
On Episode 202 of Hired, Judge Vickery (District Court Judge in Forsyth County) and Dean Scott (Assistant Dean of the Office of Career and Professional Development) join the pod to share their secrets to networking success. From mindset to conversation topics, these experts provide a thorough primer on the mechanics of networking for law students.
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Email Drafting
Dr. Rebecca Gill is the LeAnne E. Merlo Presidential Chair in Communications and Entrepreneurship at Wake Forest University. Her research is centered on organizational and occupational identity, with particular attention to entrepreneurial identity and how it is shaped alongside social identities, place, and culture. Dr. Gill joins the pod to discuss what a professional email should and should not say about your personality and professional identity. In addition to examining some best practices to email drafting, Dr. Gill and Jordan review a few catastrophic examples based on actual emails read in the field.