Product Description

Most lawyers change jobs at least once during their first 10 years of practice. Whatever the impetus, a job change is a big step, a commitment to a new direction. Make sure your move represents who you are—your talents, skills, and long-term career goals. Changing Jobs, Third Edition: A Handbook for Lawyers in the New Millennium and Beyond helps you design your own route to professional happiness. More than 30 recognized experts in the fields of law and career planning and placement offer valuable insight and guidance to discovering the direction that’s right for you. You’ll learn to:

· Define your desired destination
· Develop a clear sense of direction and purpose
· Map out the best path to take to reach your goal

Far more than a resume-writing guide (though there’s a full chapter devoted to that important subject), this comprehensive handbook walks you through the important preliminary work you must do before you even begin applying for jobs. If you’re running from a current situation or looking for a temporary stopgap, this is not the book for you. On the other hand, if lasting job satisfaction is your goal, Changing Jobs, Third Edition is the book you want to help you get there.

Using Changing Jobs as your guide, one of the first questions you’ll ask yourself is: do I really want to be a lawyer? This book helps you find the answer, through chapters dealing with self-assessment and personality factors. You’ll discover just how much potential you have (if any) to be happy in your current career—and how to make the necessary changes to achieve that happiness.

Make sure you’re up to speed on the changing marketplace for lawyers. Changing Jobs, Third Edition reveals that the fastest growing forms of work in today’s economy are temporary work, leased work, outsourced work, consulting, and small- to mid-sized business entrepreneurship. It’s not the same old job market—nor should your job-seeking strategies be the same as they were 10 or even 5 years ago.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1416500 in Books
• Published on: 2003-10-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 349 pages

About the Author
Heidi McNeil Staudenmaier is a partner at the law firm of Snell & Wilmer and is the president of the Maricopa County Bar Association. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona.

Customer Reviews

Waste of money!
This has to be the worst career advice book ever written. I bought this book expecting a practical guide on what needs to be done to make a successful job transition as an attorney. Instead the first portion of the book deals with do I really want to be a lawyer? After 4 years of college, 3 years of law school, clerking experience and at a minimum of one job as an attorney, I think that most lawyers know whether or not they want to be an attorney. If they have any questions, there are many books out there to help them decide what they "really want" to do with their life. The advice given is simplistic and not always very realistic for those attempting to change jobs, if you are trying to leave you current employer on good terms. I was very disappointed in this book. It was a waste of money to buy it. It was a waste of time to read it. Another warning, this book is an ABA publication, which may explain it's utter uselessness. The ABA publications on legal careers are some of the worst I have ever read. If you are looking for good
practical advice on how to handle the next step in you legal career, save your money!

It's about introspection and being practical
This book is for lawyers who think they want change. Because of the laser-point intellectual focus required to launch a successful legal career, many lawyers find themselves at year 10 and wonder how they ended up "there." Self-examination is a luxury few in big firms afford, but it's critical to establish and maintain the right career path.

This book guides a reader's introspection, but also offers practical tools for the lawyer genuinely interested in exploring alternatives to a traditional career in a law firm.

A note in response to the reviewer who suggested that ABA publications were inferior...My experience with ABA publications is the opposite. The ones published by the Law Practice Management section are varied, timely and well-researched.

Amazing Grace
This is THE most amazing book I've ever read. Before reading this book, I was lost. Now, I am found. My life has a meaning and true happiness that I did not think possible; all because of this wonderful book. Since my third reading, I have been uncapable of anything but pure bliss. I love this book, and because of the book, I now love everyone. I can't stop smiling and thinking happy thoughts. Just like Peter Pan said! WOW! What a great book! I'm going to buy copies for all my family and friends so they can be happy too. I'll send copies to everyone in the middle east and then we'll have peace! Picture Old Yassur and Babar Buruk sitting around a campfire roasting marshmellows to make s'mores. It will happen. Thank you.