Wednesday, April 7, 2010

How to Ace Public Interest Interviews

PSLawNet continues to offer great resources for law students and lawyers new to the profession via their blog. Their Interviewing Tips for Postgraduate Public Interest Jobs gives excellent advice for job seekers. Per PSLawNet, Harvard Law School’s Office of Public Interest Advising offers some terrific advice on interviewing on this web page, including suggestions about questions for you to ask interviewers. This is incredibly important. Most interviewers want to have a conversation, not to conduct an interrogation. And conversations, of course, are two-way streets. So you have to be prepared to engage.