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Alternative
Careers
• Where do we go from here?
Annual
Evaluations
• How to structure a performance evaluation
Body Language
• Your gestures may be silent, but to an acute observer they
can reveal your state of mind loud and clear.
Career
Positioning
• In a law firm where management is reserved for the partners
or a few non-attorney managers, legal assistants can’t really
aspire to ‘move up’ the organization. There are some
alternatives.
Freelancing
• The best place to start is with a skills inventory.
Getting
Fired
• Getting fired does not mean you will not get another job.
Getting Recognition
• Find areas that need improvement and implement new strategies.
The Information
Interview
• An information interview is a direct way to obtain hiring
and utilization criteria from the most reliable source – the
organization itself.
Interviewing
• Employers hire people based on objective and subjective
criteria.
Negotiating
• Researching the market average is a quantifiable task. Determining
the value of the job, however, is a different exercise altogether.
Negotiating
II
• Negotiating is a skill that requires knowledge of a few
critical rules, an understanding of the process, and a little bit
of practice.
Networking
• Networking is one of the most valuable tools a professional
can use to stay in the know.
Personalities
• The idealist, the rationalist, the traditionalist and the
hedonist.
Portfolio
• Your portfolio is a presentation of your accomplishments.
It can really make you shine at an interview.
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