{"id":158,"date":"2015-02-15T20:50:08","date_gmt":"2015-02-15T20:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/richmondlawcdo\/?p=158"},"modified":"2015-09-15T20:51:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T20:51:36","slug":"expand-your-search-it-just-takes-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/richmondlawcdo\/2015\/02\/15\/expand-your-search-it-just-takes-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Expand Your Search: It Just Takes One"},"content":{"rendered":"

by James Steiner<\/a> (L\u201916)<\/p>\n

The search for an internship can get extremely stressful, especially when employers you were really excited about start to reject you. Last year, I spent winter break applying to as many places as I could on Symplicity. I limited myself to patent law, but I started to receive rejections from everyone. I remember most of last spring thinking I would never find an internship. However, I finally got a job offer from the Chesapeake Circuit Court at the end of April, right before finals. I learned last year if your first wave of applications fail, just expand the range of places you would consider working.<\/p>\n

I carried that approach over to this year, and applied to as many of the OCI opportunities as I could. I had a few interviews here and there, but received mostly rejection letters. My wife then gave me the best advice: she told me that the job search is like doing a sale, you put out a lot of offers and hope one job decides to accept. At this point, I started to search for law firms in the regions I wanted to work, and by using Martindale I was able to find a few. I continued to contact people at those law firms to tell them I was interested in an internship.<\/p>\n

Eventually, a law firm\u00a0called me back for a second interview, and then offered me a job in October.<\/p>\n

I contacted between 75 and 100 law firms before I got my offer. So, if you start getting rejections from your first round of applications, my advice would be to step back and think of a new, expanded search strategy. A lot of times searching only through Symplicity job postings does not help because everyone can contact those employers.<\/p>\n

The best strategy can be just to show employers you will take the initiative. Show enthusiasm for the job and show them that you really want to work for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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