Secondly, we must have a distinctive competitive advantage. When you become a lawyer, you actually become a commodity for clients to choose from. If you don't have a clear competitive advantage and are not good at selling yourself, you will definitely be eliminated by the market.
Professional fields, foreign languages and professional experience are all distinctive competitive advantages. But these conditions need time and experience for young lawyers who are just starting out. So what lawyers emphasize is not the fame of a case, but the accumulation of wealth.
Furthermore, we should be good at using the platform to help ourselves succeed. It is very difficult for talented young people to succeed in the legal profession entirely on their own. So young people should use the platform. This platform can be an insurance company or a bank. Or an ordinary foreign company.
Lawyers need to have keen social insight and rich social knowledge, and such ability requires rich social experience. In the enterprise, by observing the operation of the enterprise, how to have an advantage in the market and how to market. It can fill the blank of this part of knowledge of young lawyers. Moreover, many foreign companies have relatively complete training for young people from receiving people, treating diseases to doing things, which many law firms do not have and are difficult to learn. Through such a platform, a graduate can change from a student to a social worker; Similarly, this platform can also be an experienced old lawyer or a corporate law firm.
Career planning of lawyers.
1) Make your own plan according to the purpose of being a lawyer.
There are many purposes for newcomers to enter the industry. Some people have always regarded being a lawyer as their ideal in life. Some are curious, some are for high income, and some are for pursuing a free life. Others inadvertently studied law, failed to enter the judiciary, and had no choice but to be lawyers ... whatever the purpose, it can be said that it has something to do with this profession, and they should make a plan for this profession. Make a plan according to your entry purpose, and then realize your goal in the shortest time. In fact, your original purpose may change as you continue to work.
When I first entered the business, I thought that being a lawyer could increase my income. Later, I thought it was fun, and later I found that there were heavy things in my work. I remember in 2003, I helped a classmate with a lawsuit. He worked in an enterprise. I said I used to get dizzy when I was painting, but now I don't feel dizzy when I read documents. My classmates are all engineering students, and I quite envy you. I said your file is just a living story. Isn't reading files a story meeting? Think for yourself, it is.
2) Make your own career plan according to your own situation and conditions.
Different people have different objective conditions and abilities, and everyone's study experience, hobbies, social experience and economic foundation are different. Of course, your planning is inseparable from your own conditions. And the city where you work is also an important reference. If you work in a small or medium-sized city in the mainland, it is definitely difficult to position yourself as an intellectual property lawyer, because the market is too small to get exercise and training.
If your foreign language is average, it is difficult to do professional foreign-related business; If you don't like debate and race against time, there is no need for criminal defense. Of course, if you are in a state of worry-free, supporting yourself is the only choice, and then make a second plan on this basis, you will pay more than others.
At present, many newcomers are aiming at small-scale high-end business, focusing on several famous places in several megacities such as Shanghai and Beijing, and paying little attention to traditional business. Everyone, especially the newly graduated law books and masters, regards being an assistant as their ideal post and goal, and regards the level of fixed salary as their value criterion.
It is difficult to put into practice without planning a career, or just staying in the ideal stage. When communicating with friends and classmates or online, I always feel that people are in the rivers and lakes, involuntarily, and they are running around, feeling that the future is unpredictable. Sometimes they change places and park frequently, wasting the best time. As a result, experience and knowledge have not been accumulated, money is still tight, and people are forced to change careers when they are old, which is still unsustainable in the industry. It is a pity.