Why ambitious associates looking for a greater variety of experience should consider contract lawyering
as an alternative career path
Not exact matches
As people increasingly see their previously stable
career paths collapse, they are looking at the
alternatives.
Anyone who has dared to earn a living
as a creative or who has taken an
alternative career path knows what I'm talking about.
As a graduate student in the mid-1990s we never discussed
alternative career paths.
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.
Some of the «
alternative»
career paths, such
as science policy, consulting, and regulatory affairs, seemed particularly enticing, and I wanted to learn more.
After completing his MSc (pharmacology) at the University of Toronto in 1999, Oak continued in the same lab working
as a research technician, all the while considering
alternative career paths.
Jan Smallbone, Director of Learning & Talent Development, Mitchells & Butlers comments: «Starting
as an apprentice gives young people a genuine
alternative to academic study, and a real
path to a long term
career in hospitality.
«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.
Seen
as an attractive
alternative to the classic Linklaters»
career path, associates are paid 33 % less, but are only expected to work a standard 40 - hour week.
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.
As many pharmacy graduates leave and apply strictly to pharmaceutical roles, meaning fierce competition, it would be wise to consider the
alternative pharmaceutical graduate
career paths.