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Paralegal Job Search Q & A

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From making sure your resume is up to par to knowing what to say in an interview, you might feel overwhelmed with questions on how you can land the right job for your paralegal career. In our latest podcast episode, Ann answers your job search questions so you can get the paralegal job of your dreams.

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How To Lose a Paralegal Job In 10 Days

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The movie inspired me to want to do a little fun take on it and write about how to lose a paralegal job in 10 days. Now I’m assuming you probably don’t want to lose your job in 10 days, so avoid these things as a new paralegal and beyond. Avoid doing these 10 things when you first start a new paralegal job.

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Continuing Education for Paralegals – Sink or Swim?

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Why Continuing Education is Necessary If you asked 100 paralegals who all went to 100 different paralegal certificate programs, they would all tell you the same thing: the schools taught us theory and terminology, but not the skills that were needed when on the first day of that first paralegal job.

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Tips for Managing Your Personal Injury Cases

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You just landed your first paralegal job at a local personal injury firm. Or maybe you transferred from another firm. I’m going to start with 3 immediate/somewhat urgent things you have to do and then 3 knowledge-based things you have to know or learn about to have a successful career as a personal injury paralegal.

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Paralegal Interview Tips to Land Your Dream Job

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Being a paralegal and having a paralegal degree are two different things. This is why most law firms don’t hire a paralegal graduate without experience right out of paralegal school. You don’t learn much from your paralegal certificate/associate that applies to your day-to-day job.

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I Was Interviewed by a Paralegal Student

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I actually was getting my college degree because I wanted to go on to law school. He had a friend who was the office manager at a local law firm, in Sarasota, Florida. He thought it would be good to do that in between going to law school. I ended up loving being a paralegal so much that I dropped the law school plan.

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You Got Fired, Now What?

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Tips on How to Stay Positive and Find a New Paralegal Job As my time as a paralegal continues to grow, I’ve become more and more accustomed to seeing that e-mail stating that so and so is “no longer with the firm”. In this blog, I’ll share tips on how to stay positive and find a new paralegal job.

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