-: Creativity is an absolute must.
You have to be creative, you have to think sort of,
I hate to use the term outside the box,
but you do have to think outside the box.
You have to not just be sort of in the standard
this is the way it's always done
because there may be a new way to do it
or certainly a new way to think about it.
In any event, you wanna think about all the different angles
and people who are entrepreneurial, people who want to,
or want to and certainly understand that
law is a business too, at least on the law firm side
and approach it as that and want to learn
how to meet clients and develop clients,
and understand, sort of, that aspect of things
that I think a lot of folks don't
spend enough time thinking about.
So, for me, I was a boat captain at least
some of my years in college and my first year in law school,
and that allowed for a lot of really interesting
conversations in networking and meeting people
and interviewing when I was first out of law school.
So if you can have something that's just interesting,
that is not, you know, kind of the standard road map
for the typical law firm resume, something that sticks out
that's interesting, that people will relate to,
or can be a conversation starter.
It's something that makes whoever's interviewing think,
Oh I remember that person, they were x or y or z.
And when you're dealing with looking at a bunch of resumes
in short order to fill a position,
you need to find something that sticks out.