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Originally posted by paigowprincess
OK, but then he is looking at a firm that just wants a body and isnt doing "opportunistic hiring" as one large prominent firm recently described it to me. Unless they think the Coltrane creds are so stellar (ie 4.0 at harvard and editor of law review, etc etc) that the fact that he has only been at his job two years is somthing that can be overlooked. If you were a firm that wanted a good stable happy worker bee, wouldnt you prefer someone who was at a job for a longer period of time thatn the first semi credible chance to jump ship?
ANd I would add that asking for grades is just as recockulous.
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Concur. When I was at a firm, we interviewed a guy who had great credentials on paper. He had gone to an ivy league law school (and college, I think, but wouldn't swear to it), was on law review, clerked for a federal circuit court judge, and had worked at good firms; however, the fact that he left each job after about a year was bad news. I actually knew him (total loser), and was wary for reasons unrelated to his awkward resume, but not one person failed to comment on how strange it was.
Asking for grades isn't so ridiculous when you're really junior, but after a few years, who the hell cares? When someone kindly posted listings for copy editors a while back, I took a look, and there was one company DE Shaw (wtf?) who asked for SAT SCORES! If that's not the stupidest thing ever, I don't know what is. How does one go about getting one's SAT scores, anyway? That was umm... well, a lot of years ago!
