Business Management After Law By Dipanjan Majumder. a) Applying for a business management job straight after law school: This is an accepted route to take at the finer law schools in the developed countries. However, in countries such as ours, the process is not so straight forward. Corporates looking for managers in non-legal positions tend to steer clear of law schools on the mistaken basis that law schools can only produce lawyers. They bleep over the fact that first and foremost, law schools produce smart people! The fact that these smart people are equipped with legal skills and knowledge is an additional value-add. Also at fault are law schools and law students themselves – students are usually hesitant to confront a dominant interest in business. ‘What’s wrong with me? I’m at law school! How can I think business management?’ – is probably an accurate guess at the pattern of thinking. The result of this type of thinking is that student or college recruitment committees end up applying only to ‘law organisations’, thereby ignoring other organisations that may have been interested, had they understood the profiles of students. The answer lies in facing up to your interests and positioning yourself as a smart, dynamic, creative guy with the added benefit of legal skills and knowledge. Your resume must reflect this approach. Look around for the same kind of recruiters who visit the top B-schools, and show them how you can add value. [Excerpt] Read the full article here: lawlex.org/lex-bulletin/business-management-after-law/5106
Posted on: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 06:40:55 +0000
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