Jeff Steiner's Blog (5)

As I continue my job search, I remember that it is important not to dilute my resume by sending it out to every recruiter and every job I see on the Internet. I am very selective about where I send my resume and in this market, I’m extremely cautious with every job posting that I see. The resume is really all that we have to differentiate and present ourselves to employers, so we can’t afford to lose control of that document. It’s important to know where your resume is at all times – because onc… Continue

I read an interesting blog post on the WSJ Blog about tips on how to conduct phone screen interviews. In the past, a phone interview was generally treated as a “meet and greet” where you would basically talk to someone briefly in order to set up a time for the “real interview” where the firm would fly you in to meet the hiring managers, employees, etc. However, in today… Continue

Any job seeker (and really everyone for that matter) should be mindful of his or her Google reputation. Your Google reputation is identified by the search results that a potential employer will see when he or she types your name into Google. Obviously, you only have control over what you post on the Internet yourself and for that, you have to… Continue

During my tenure as a corporate attorney, I never had enough time to fully utilize social networking sites like LinkedIn or Facebook. I definitely didn’t have much reason to sign up for a Twitter account because I spent most of my waking life in the office. Sure I signed up for Facebook and LinkedIn accounts to reconnect with some of my old friends from high school and college, but I never understood the full potential of these sites for career networking and job searching purposes. In all fairn… Continue

I never knew a laid-off lawyer until I actually became one. Sure I heard some old war stories about some lawyers losing their jobs during the dot-com bust, but I never could have imagined seeing such wide spread attorney and staff layoffs at almost every major law firm in the country. As we’re all aware, the economy and society have changed irreversibly and the jobs that many of us once had no longer exist and there’s no knowing whether or not those jobs will ever come back. As a result, many p… Continue