I got hit with a Covid layoff. How discriminating should I be about my next step? I've got about a decade of experience in big law, general commercial lit. I've wanted to go in house for a few years, but positions for pure litigators are few and far between. I'm applying for in-house and firm positions, and also a few firm administrative roles that I don't want to do. Should I just take anything I can get? I'm ok on savings, just worried about long term career impact.
All about digging into your LPs and functional fit. All interviewers debrief together, so if you reuse stories, they should be consistent and not in conflict with each other
And don’t repeat your stories for the same reason!!
Make a spreadsheet with examples for all LPs in STAR format. Learn to deliver those convincingly. That’s kind of all you need for the behavioural part of the interview.
Thanks! I have a word doc with them in STAR format but need to work on a few more as I had to use 2 in my initial screening.
https://youtube.com/c/HollyLeeCoaching
She gives great advice!
Good luck! I tried for 7 years (6 years which I wasn’t aware of the LPs) and on my 7th try I got through. I would advice have 5 firm stories that can interrelate to all LPs. And have some back up stories but you can tweak accordingly. You can also say like well I did give the same example to interview xyz but let me elaborate oh that and why I think it is not just customer obsession but also my bias for action that lead to xyz. I’m also an interviewer right now and we do discuss similarities in answers but obviously one story can link to many LPs
True, except, often when a candidate is referring to the same/similar scenarios it’s a red flag (at least for L6+ and that ‘lack of complexity or experience’ will come up during the debrief as a discussion point.
Good luck in your loop! I had mine last week and haven't heard back...wondering if they tell you "no" right away if you didn't make it through? Tmrw makes the 5th business day and I'm a wreck with anxiety. I hope 3rd time is a charm for you!
Don’t worry - you take an INSANE amount of notes during the interview and then fill in your response after 24hrs. It’s just about the difficulty finding an hour where everyone is free to discuss in the next 5 days.
But appreciate it is a painful wait I remember from experience!
Amazon careers site has pretty good information on the different interview stages and the stuff they are looking out for (e.g knowledge of their core values, situational questions, problem solving, technical whiteboard (depending on your role)) I think there is a total of at least 5-6 rounds before getting your offer. Good luck 🤞
I went through the process last month and received an offer. I also reused an example I used for my writing assessment. The example I used could be used for multiple principles so I took pices of it and used for different questions. I did have about 15 different examples based on the principles though.
Good luck 🍀
You’re welcome
Good luck, been through it 2 times I’m a contractor exceeding expectations by 200% month after month, train people but never an offer or a why not
The legal rationale is nonsense. But agree with the rest. All to often people that do not *pass* spend their interview filling time rather than talking specifically about what they did, how that benefitted, and (indirectly) how that aligned to the LPs.
I wanted to provide an update that I just signed my offer letter! Thank you to everyone for your support and advice :-)