Law firms will likely attempt to improve attorney retention by offering
alternative career paths for lawyers and responding to the aspirations of «Generation Y.» However, the other major component of attorney retention important to Generation Y — work - life - balance — remains a thorny problem.
The final session covered
alternative career paths for scientists where Next Wave's European Editor, Anne Forde gave a practical insight into her career as an Editor and Next Wave's Seema Sharma spoke of her previous career transition working as a Technical Specialist.
So I created
an alternative career path for myself that fit who I wanted to be as a mom and through FIT4MOM, I was fortunate to also be able to pay it forward to 300 other mompreneurs with a business opportunity that supports every stage of motherhood.
Not exact matches
«With 21 graduated apprentices becoming store managers and 57 shift supervisors, it proves to us that apprenticeships
for young people are a genuine
alternative to academic study and are a real
path to a retail
career,» said Lisa Robbins, director of Partner Resources
for Starbucks UK.
For PhD students who want to follow an
alternative career path, there are a surprising number of options.
But don't worry:
alternative paths are emerging that offer exciting new
careers for chemists.
Not all scientists at the conference intend to struggle
for an academic position; those interested in
alternative career paths met representatives of industry and nonacademic research institutions at a series of workshops.
Why ambitious associates looking
for a greater variety of experience should consider contract lawyering as an
alternative career path
«Very early in the legal phase of my
career, I discovered that the traditional law firm
path (associate to partner) was not
for me, and each of my law firm roles since my first (as a law firm associate) has been an
alternative to that traditional
path.
The CBA even publishes a list of
career alternatives for lawyers, or writes up profiles of people who have pursued different legal
paths from time to time... [more]
If your vision of an
alternative career is leaving private practice
for a corporate job, your
path will look like a traditional job search: revising documents, networking and information interviewing, lining up references, and a good supply of patience.
Identify resources
for career planning and development within the firm, or
for consideration of
alternative paths outside of the firm.
Attorneys will find themselves in a period of transition at one or more points in their
career, whether that period is due to their initial entry into the legal profession, their exiting the profession upon retirement,
for brief or extended maternity, paternity or family leave, in order to pursue an
alternative career opportunity or upon making a shift in the focus or
path of their
career.
In this episode of The Legal Toolkit, Heidi Alexander interviews Alison Monahan and Lee Burgess, founders of the online resource Trebuchet Legal, about the steps to creating an
alternative legal
career path and what students should be doing in law school to prepare
for the future.
The CBA even publishes a list of
career alternatives for lawyers, or writes up profiles of people who have pursued different legal
paths from time to time.
The harder aspect
for those who are feeling lost in their job or
career is determining just what is the best
alternative path that fits both their skills and personal ambition and desires.