For law students working on fall campus-interviewing opportunities, here is a roundup of posts on listening during interviews:
- Using social media to “listen” (i.e. monitor) the legal job market and prepare for interviews
- Listening during interviews: advice for law students
- Effective listening during callback interviews
And a few additional posts of interest to candidates facing interviews:
- Using the “callback” technique of improvisational listening (for referring to earlier interview questions)
- Listening under the influence (in the event of a networking/interview event where alcohol is served)
- What lawyers say, and what they do (this gets a bit philosophical on the difficulty of discovering what lawyers do by asking them directly and listening to their answers)
- Teamwork and collaboration (referring to the New York Times’s great article on teams at Google, which would be good prep for answer questions about collaborating in teams)
- “The outro” (a somewhat unconventional post on Prince’s Purple Rain, but the key point is to listen all the way to the finish line, in this case the final moments of the interview)
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