5 Tips for Making Recruiters Your Best Friend and Career Miracle Worker

  Recruiters can be your best ally in developing your career. It’s that time again. We struggle as to whether it’s time to change jobs, hang in there or be thankful we’re in the best firm in the world. Well, maybe the best. OK, the best so far. Working with a good recruiter can help make your career. Here’s the inside scoop: Recruiters, and I am talking about the staffing agency kind,...

Are You in the Next Round of Lay-offs? Coping in the Time of Covid-19

By Chere B. Estrin It's happening all over the U.S., the world and yes, even in the legal field. Lay-offs. That ugly, depressing, stress-ridden word. I am usually a very upbeat, positive person. Yet, along with the rest of us, witnessing this world crisis is something that is impossibly hard to get your arms around. It's like living in a Kafka scene. I am not facing fear, rather, dread. I...

How to Alienate a Recruiter and Bust Your Career

It’s that time again. We struggle as to whether it’s time to change jobs, hang in there or be thankful we’re in the best firm in the world. Well, maybe the best.  OK, the best so far. Working with a good recruiter can make your career.  Here’s the inside scoop: Recruiters, and I am talking about the staffing agency kind, hold the keys to literally hundreds of contacts they...

My Dog Ate My Homework and Other Best Excuses

Honest to Pete.  You read about this stuff, you hear about this stuff. Books are written about this stuff.  But you don't believe it until it happens to you. Our business is growing faster than I can blink.  That's a good thing.  The not so good thing is that I am overwhelmed with work.  Between the Organization of Legal Professionals (OLP) getting stronger...