Hillbilly Elegy
job, you look online for job postings. And then you submit a dozen résumés. And then you hope that someone calls you back. If yo ...
friend of a friend to make sure their name gets the look it deserves. They have their uncles call old college buddies. They have ...
right people, ensure that we have opportunities, and impart valuable information. Without them, we’re going it alone. I learned ...
what field of law I expected to practice in. I wasn’t even sure what my questions about “firm culture” and “work-life balance” m ...
or working on high-stakes litigation. I should have said anything other than what came from my mouth: “I don’t really know, but ...
eventually got the job, despite failing miserably at what I perceived was the most important part of the recruiting process. The ...
another language. (A sampling: “Despite grading’s great promise, we show that the regulatory design, implementation, and practic ...
were also close friends), a good friend had begun studying before Christmas. The alumni of elite consulting firms gathered toget ...
because Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor had been a member. But I didn’t know why. I didn’t even know what the Journal did. ...
it but that it was a prerequisite for certain types of jobs. This was undoubtedly true: For many career paths and interests, Jou ...
Though I didn’t make it during my first year, I made the cut during my second year and became an editor of the prestigious publi ...
goal. Hell, I didn’t even have a long- term goal. I just wanted to graduate and get a good job. I had some vague notion that I’d ...
sector employers often shell out tens of thousands in signing bonuses for recent clerks. That’s what I knew about clerkships, an ...
feeder judge carries certain risks—if you win the game, you’re halfway to the chambers of the nation’s highest court; if you los ...
professor if the judge he’s recommending you to is a nice lady? It’s trickier than it might seem. So to get this information, yo ...
a high-powered federal judge with deep connections to multiple Supreme Court justices. I submitted all the materials—a résumé, a ...
needed was an interview and I’d get the job. And I knew that if she pushed my application hard enough, I’d get the interview. Th ...
Supreme Court litigator, you shouldn’t care that much about this job.” She then told me how hard a clerkship with this judge wou ...
impossible to say whether I would have gotten the job. I was probably being overconfident: My grades and résumé were fine but no ...
mistake: The advice had tangible economic value. Social capital isn’t manifest only in someone connecting you to a friend or pas ...
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