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February 18, 2003
Job Prospects: The Great Emptiness of 2003 (part II in the series)
Last Thursday night, I didn't make it to the BD&G reception. Why? I spent the entire night working on resumes and cover letters. The receptions are for firms we might consider next year (or more properly, which might consider us next year). But I'm jobless for the summer still, so receptions which get me nothing other than a few drinks, appetizers and conversations with Tate-from-Corporate are not the best use of my job-seeking time.
Thursday afternoon, I got a rejection letter from a firm I had sent my resume to only days before. I sent out a big batch the previous Monday. Three days turnaround time. Given the bureaucracy involved in accomplishing something administrative at a firm-zilla, I'm guessing they had one assistant addressing the reply envelope before the other even opened my letter or before the recruiter gave my resume 1.27 seconds of her time.
The letter simply said they were done hiring for the summer already. I completely flipped. This should not have been surprise really, but it hit me hard anyway. So Thursday afternoon and late into Thursday night, I worked on 54 more resumes and cover letters.
I didn't get the reading for Civ Pro done. I was up until 4:30 stuffing and stamping the envelopes to get them in the mail before the holiday weekend. Unfortunately, I slept through Civ Pro and a meeting with my Law Fellow to review the draft of my appellate brief. Then, Friday afternoon on my way to send it all off, I saw Prof. Civ Pro, who smiled and waived. Damn.
I've gotten 3 more rejection letters since Thursday. None as bad as the one Sauce received, but not very encouraging either. Hopefully one or two firms will not be too far into the process and will consider me, and one will offer me a job. That will make up for missing Civ Pro.
Posted by buddha at February 18, 2003 11:21 PM
Comments
Hey man join the club. 50+ rejections and counting... I think I'll need to hurry up and swallow my pride and chuck a bunch of resumes to judges/DA's/PI firms... if it isn't too late already.
Posted by: g at February 26, 2003 01:15 AM
I feel that. My pride is gone.
Posted by: buddha at March 2, 2003 10:43 PM