earning to deal with people is a lifelong challenge.It doesn't matter your age, cultural background, educational level, degree of emotional intelligence, marital status or professional achievements; people can be hard to read, difficult to interact with and often impossible to be around.Aside from helping us to develop patience and a sound understanding of how to … [Read more...]
Whether you're getting started in the workforce, applying for a new job, honing your interview skills, discovering your true passion, chasing a slash career, or looking to get informed about your workplace rights, our mission is to make the challenge of building a successful long-term career as streamlined as possible. Our Career Lawgic series is an amalgamation of our favourite legal tips and tricks to supercharge your career trajectory.
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JD Student’s Passion For Public Law Paves Way To Attorney-General’s Department
NU Juris Doctor student Catherine Bladen has received the college’s first Leslie Zines Constitutional Law Scholarship and will begin a 10-week internship at the Attorney-General’s Department this summer.Catherine has a strong interest in Constitutional law and said it was one of the aspects she most appreciated about studying at the ANU College of Law. I love studying law … [Read more...]
Where Can A Law Degree Take You? All Over The World If You Want It To
hen Amit Poonath studied psychology, he thought he would help individuals change their lives. Then he realised he wanted to affect change in communities and to do that he realised he needed to learn how to change policies.Now the international student is in his third and final year of a Juris Doctor – the ANU College of Law’s postgraduate law degree. Where does your law … [Read more...]
Change Direction Wherever You Are With The ANU Online Juris Doctor
At the age of 17, you are not allowed to drink alcohol or vote but, by the time you start Year 11, you are expected to know what you will do for a job for forty-odd years.Add to this the evolving expectations of employers, and the fact that employment market predictions indicate that most people will have up to 17 jobs across 5 completely different industries … [Read more...]
‘I made a 180 degree turn’: Change Direction With A Postgraduate Law Degree
ichael Fortson knew he would study law sometime after he finished high school in Miami-Dade County, Florida. He just didn’t think he would wait until he was in his forties, married with two children and living 15,000 kilometres from home before he began.His four-year-plan to pay for college by joining the US military turned into a 23-year career with postings … [Read more...]
Junior Lawyers: 5 Traits That Will Guarantee Your Career Success
You've landed that elusive role at a large commercial law firm. Few are fortunate enough to get the chance to commence their careers like this. You probably hustled your way through law school, with many sleepless nights and coffee-fuelled study sessions, dreaming of the day when you'd finally get that coveted piece of paper. And you got there. Congrats! Unfortunately, though, … [Read more...]
Why Finishing Her Juris Doctor Was Essential To Law Student Fighting Cancer
t the beginning of her final semester, Juris Doctor graduate Rachael Grivas found out that she had breast cancer. Faced with surgery, then months of chemotherapy and radiation treatment, she would have been forgiven for putting her studies aside for a year or two. But, she says, finishing her law degree, having a goal that was unrelated to surviving cancer, turned out to be an … [Read more...]
Change Direction: Study Law As Your Second Degree
ost people work for at least 40 years but rarely nowadays is a full career spent with one employer.More and more people aren’t simply changing jobs, they’re starting over in entirely new careers and, for many, that means a return to studies. However, not all returning students have the time or the flexibility to devote to an undergraduate degree and if they’ve been there, … [Read more...]
Student Guides: Four Phases Of Dealing With Unpaid Superannuation
ospitality is one of the worst industries for superannuation non-compliance. Considering how many university students engage in hospitality work to make ends meet while studying, it is likely that unpaid superannuation is the first legal issue that most of us will encounter over the course of our lives.In Australia, if you are over 18 years old and earn at least $450 a … [Read more...]
UK Women Put Their Foot Down Over Requirement To Wear Heels At Work
here are many news items that have recently made me question whether we are living in the 21st century.One such example was the revelation that it is still legal in the UK to require that women wear high heels in the workplace. This all came to light when Nicola Thorp, who has since started a government petition to make it illegal for a company to require that women wear … [Read more...]
Think Like A Lawyer: Proven Ways To Supercharge Your Career This Year
"If there are no ups and downs in your life, it means that you are dead" - Author unknown.hese days, there is a tremendous amount of pressure (most of it self-inflicted) on young Australians, particularly recent graduates, to have your life and career working in perfect synchronicity.Most of us set some pretty ambitious work/life resolutions for the year ahead. … [Read more...]
New Study Suggests Slash Careers Behind Upskilling Trend
Nowadays, the pressure to stick with and succeed in one chosen field has, in many ways, lessened as more young Australians vote with their feet and regularly change careers.Commonly referred to as a slash career, these alternative career pathways can manifest in many different ways. You may hold down a full-time job but have a side hustle or work on a passion project over … [Read more...]
Rules Of Engagement: Identifying Illegal Questions At Your Next Job Interview
t is tough out there for job seekers, particularly young job seekers.The current market is flooded with graduates with only 68.8% of young Australians able to secure full-time work within four months of completing formal study. Youth unemployment currently stands at 12.9%, three times higher than the national average.In this climate, being offered an interview is an … [Read more...]
9 Reasons Why A Law Degree Is A Life Skill, Not Just A Career
I have lost count of the number of lawyer jokes I have heard, as well as the number of times that I have been labelled a “failed lawyer” or a “reformed lawyer”. What does a lawyer get when you give him Viagra?Taller.But in spite of the inevitable jibes and jokes, many of us choose to pursue legal careers because of a desire to do good and to help solve the life … [Read more...]
Trusting Your Instincts When Making Career-Changing Decisions
n a subconscious level, we know that we should learn to block out extraneous influences and trust our gut more with decisions.From everyday predicaments like whether you should go to the gym or go out for dinner with your friends; forego precious sleep and watch just one more episode of Mindhunter; to bigger life decisions like whether you are on track with your career or … [Read more...]
Laws Of Fashion: Dressing For The Job You Have
Entering an office environment for the first time is intimidating enough without the additional stress of wondering what you should wear.Workplace culture is unique to every business or organisation and can change depending on your position. If you work in a client-facing role, for example, expect to be dressed in your best most days of the week.While it is preferable … [Read more...]
Outsmarting ‘The Nothing’, Workplace Apathy & Keeping It Together In A Job You Hate
Staying in the same job for too long can start to feel like Groundhog Day. You find yourself doing the same repetitive tasks over and over again. You get a coffee, you greet your superiors, you plough through the day and pray for mercy that you can get out the office before 7.00pm to salvage some semblance of a social life (or counterbalance all those hours hunched over your … [Read more...]
Career Lawgic: How To Quit Your Job + Template Resignation Letter
Knowing the right time to leave a job is one of the most difficult decisions anyone can make. Weighing the relative costs of leaving a familiar position with the benefits of trying a new career can be a daunting exercise.How do you know if you are doing the right thing? What if your new role is a disaster? What if there is no scope for career development? What if you can't … [Read more...]
#LawsOfEtiquette: Email Etiquette Rules For Millennials
Etiquette is everywhere.It's a set of invisible rules that unconsciously, and sometimes consciously, govern our social interactions.From networking etiquette, to social etiquette, meal time etiquette and professional etiquette. With so many unwritten rules informing our daily social interactions, it can be almost impossible to know what the right thing to do is in any … [Read more...]
Think Like A Lawyer: Using Law Student Life Hacks To Get Ahead At Work
I am going to lay it all on the table bluntly – there is nothing that truly prepares you for the stress of law school.That reality is all too real right now as I sit writing in my onesie, holding my 3rd cup of tea, and going over my exam revision notes. But like anything in life, it all depends on how you look at the situation. If you are a 'glass half full' kind of person, … [Read more...]
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