The process of on-campus interviews is on its way. I used to be pretty excited about this, thinking that it would be fun to research possible future employers. I'm already bored of the process.
What is there to really look at? All the firms few the same old bullshit. "We're family friendly." "Our associates get a lot of early responsibility." "All our secretaries are STD free." Blah Blah Blah. Reading the same lines over and over, I've resorted to looking at only a few things: average GPAs offered from my school, starting salary, whether anyone is getting no-offered, and total number of attorneys.
I also have to be concerned with the financial state of the firm. Is it going to take a shit and lay attorneys off? Is it going to merge with some dump? I had a conversation with a woman in the career service department, and she actually told me to keep an eye on Above the Law. So, Skadden is off the list because that rumor about 1/3 of the summer class being no-offered is just toooooo frightening, even if it isn't true.
My GPA isn't the best (read: in the shitter) so there aren't many firms that have average GPAs around mine. It looks like I'll be reaching for quite a few. That doesn't sound too great though with the current state of the economy. The feeling I've gotten from people that I've talked is somewhere between 'I should have grabbed an engineering degree' and 'Life will be fine at your TTT firm...making lower than market." Blaaahh.
So what are you concerned with? Starting salary? Whether the firm is V10? V200? Let me know because I could use all the direction I can get.
5 comments:
first
Rex, why are you advertising your blog like it's not TTT? Are you lonely or something?
4:11
Why are you commenting on a T14 blog like you didn't get waitlisted at American?
Good luck with your direct mailing campaign in a month.
I appreciate the concern but I'm not lonely.
This question is undoubtedly TTT, but you mention that you evaluate the firms in part by their median GPA of offers. Where is this information available? I'm in a similiar situation as you and want to have a good idea for how much I am reaching.
Thanks.
11:45
The career service office at my school provides a list of statistics from previous years on-campus interviews. Included in that is the low/high/median GPAs offered by each firm.
Check with your career service office for something similar. Good luck.
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