Second year corporate/ECVC associate (not big law), losing my job for sure next week (long story short I screwed up and I’ve been frozen out ice cold). Started interviewing already, should hear back from a firm next week and have two more interviews as well. Has anyone recovered from being let go while actively searching? How did you handle it?

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Yes. I asked for them to keep me on the website until the sooner of 6 months or getting an offer. Also, how certain are you of being let go? I’m a corporate associate and do ec/vc work and can’t imagine a screwup from a second year that would warrant this. That and since you’re a second year, this should have been caught by a supervisor senior/mid/partner, so I see this as a screwup on whichever senior attorney was running that deal. If you are actually getting let go, they may give you some severance/time on the website anyway but try and push for as much website time as you can as you search and ask that they confirm your employment when asked at the reference check stage

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I was let go 2.5 years in and in a manner that felt similarly not super fair and so I completely understand and I empathize immensely. I landed on my feet and at better opportunities after and so I’m rooting for you and I think you can do it. Get that maximum website time!

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You can recover. The recommendations about staying on the firms website, etc are good.

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Thanks. I hope they are reasonable. The partners don’t hate me, they just seem like they’ve given up on me. It’s my first job out of law school and I’ve had such a rough go.

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Tunnel vision/ survival mode. Don’t rehash the past (you can do that later, with the benefit of distance); for now focus only on what you have to do today, at this step. Stay a little numb in this phase, distract yourself until things don’t feel so raw.

I’m sorry this is happening to you, but you’ll make it through and will one day look back on this as a temporary setback.

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Thank you for the insight. I think you’re right. My plan is to spend as much time with my boyfriend as I can this weekend to distract myself and then take whatever comes at me next week.

Following bc in a similar position (semi-expecting to be stealth laid off next week), minus the interviews 😔

If you have people who can vouch for you, I think you should be fine! I would imagine they wouldn’t just cold-call people at your firm since they have to be discreet. And if you get an offer, you can explain away the gap as a vacation or a break (it’s technically a break anyway). I’ve also seen the writing on the wall and have been applying, but unfortunately no one seems to want to retool a lit associate 🥲

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