Interviewing Advice For People Who Hate To Interview

From Above the Law authored by Kerriann Stout:

 

“In terms of the most dreaded activities in the legal profession, interviewing is right up there with networking and attending CLEs. To me, interviewing is the same as going on a series of first dates where you desperately want to be in a relationship and the other person plays it cool. You get all dressed up, make polite small talk, and laugh nervously. All the while, you are really just thinking “are we going to do this thing or not?” Beforehand, you wait in anticipation, hands sweating, as you play out all possible scenarios of how horribly wrong things could go, and afterwards you sit around anxiously waiting for the phone to ring.

My heart palpitates just thinking about it. Luckily for you, I’ve been on both a lot of first dates (as accurately predicted by my parents) and through many job interviews (as both the interviewer and the interviewee) and gathered my best survival tips below.”

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What The World Needs Now Is More Women Mentors

From Forbes authored by Carla Caralini:

“Nobody makes it alone. If you’ve ascended the corporate ladder, you know how true this is.

Research shows that successful CEOs reached the top because they sought out mentors along the way. In a survey of 1,250 top executives, two-thirds reported having a mentor and 29 % of respondents out-earned their unmentored colleagues. They also reported being happier than those who did not have mentors.

What’s more, every single successful female executive in this research study reported having a mentor.

Why does this matter so much? Consider these stats. Today, women earn 38 % of the MBAs but make up only 2 % of S&P 500 CEOs and occupy just one in five board seats. Women’s progress in the corner offices and boardrooms of America has stalled.

To help turn this trend around, we need more women mentoring women.”

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Ex-Uber engineer Susan Fowler’s life could be made into a movie

From Axios authored by Kia Kokalitcheva:

“A movie is in the works about former Uber engineer Susan Fowler, whose explosive blog post about her time at the ride-hailing company led to a major shakeup and eventually the ouster of CEO Travis Kalanick, according to Variety. Fowler has reportedly pledged her life rights to a movie being written by “Hidden Figures” screenwriter Allison Schroeder, to be produced by former Disney executive Kristin Barr. Fowler’s agent has not yet returned Axios’s request for comment.”

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Six Top Women Leaders Share Insights From Success To Significance

From Forbes authored by Robert Reiss:

“Aristotle incorrectly claimed that women had fewer teeth than the 32 men have. Just as it amazingly took over a thousand years to prove Aristotle’s claim wrong, one of America’s greatest opportunities for growth has been hidden in plain sight.

After interviewing 750 top CEOs, I’ve recognized that women are often better at seeing synergies between businesses, and yet today only 32 of Fortune 500 CEOs are women.

A few years ago I shared my personal goal to have 50 Fortune 500 women CEOs, which frankly is still only 10%, but would be a smart first step towards elevating the American economy and society. In an effort to advance dialogue on success and advice to women, on September 18, 2017 I moderated a discussion of 6 exceptional women leaders.”

 

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Harvey Weinstein

From Rachel Mariner:

“It is 1984 and I am 17 and the University of Richmond has flown me down to their campus from Corning, New York to be interviewed for a scholarship. I think I am very cool for flying by myself and smoke in the back of the plane.  My host student takes me to a frat party, a cute junior takes me to his bedroom, there is a wrestling match when I don’t want to do anything but kiss, he gets my jeans off and bites my inner thigh, hard. It leaves a green bruise I hide from my mother.”

 

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Women Entrepreneurs-Presented by First Security, Featuring Arkansas GIRL ATTORNEY™ Victoria Leigh

From ISSUU:

Arkansas Girl Attorney Victoria Leigh is presented as one of First Security Bank’s Women Entrepreneurs on Page 25.

“Leveraging technology and employing a flexible pricing structure Victoria “Tori” Leigh has blazed a trail for so-called modern law firms in Little Rock.  She said such elements, products of generational differences, are important points of differentiation in a crowded field.

‘There’s two big differences that I see in generational practices.  One is the use of technology; the older folks are real hesitant to expand their horizons with respect to the tools that are out there now,” she said. “Then the second thing is the way we structure our fees and the way we approach clients and handle cases.”

‘We’ve marketed ourselves as a modern law practice. We do very thorough consultations, we figure out exactly what’s going on, we tell you what your options are and we can fit services into almost any  budget.'”

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Getting Women Out of the Middle-Management Trap

From The Wall Street Journal authored by Joann S. Lublin:

“After rising early in their careers, many women get stuck in middle management.

More big businesses are trying to fix that by taking inventive steps to propel female managers into the executive suite.

International Business Machines Corp. helps high-potential women win critical stretch assignments through an intensive leadership program. Other companies, including ChevronCorp. and Xerox Corp. , take flexible approaches to relocation better tailored to the lives of women staffers. Rising technology stars at Intuit Inc. enhance their professional visibility through coaching and introduction to important contacts from powerful executive sponsors.

Increased efforts to move women up the ladder come amid their slow gains at work. The share of women in middle management was unchanged at 33% and rose slightly in C-suite roles to 20%, concludes a new study by LeanIn.Org and McKinsey & Co.

And while more than half of senior managers want to be a top executive, the study showed, just 39% of female ones think they will achieve their career goal, compared with 44% of men.

The disparity in advancement expectations and achievements reflects deep-rooted attitudes about women as potential leaders, gender experts say. “Women aren’t given a real chance at the fast track,’’ suggests Deborah Gillis, president of Catalyst, which conducts research about women.”

 

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Sonia Sotomayor tore apart partisan gerrymandering with one simple, devastating question

From Business Insider authored by Mark Joseph Stern:

“Throughout Tuesday’s oral arguments in Gill v. Whitford, Justice Anthony Kennedy and the Supreme Court’s left-leaning justices grilled Wisconsin’s attorneys with tough questions that suggest a majority of the court is prepared to impose constitutional limits on political redistricting.

The highlight of the hour came when Justice Sonia Sotomayor posed a very simple inquiry that cut to the core of the case: “Could you tell me what the value is to democracy from political gerrymandering? How does that help our system of government?”

Sotomayor’s question arrived after the justices had debated abstract principles of law (and math) for nearly half an hour. Kennedy and the liberals had already laid out their constitutional case against partisan gerrymandering: When Republicans draw district lines designed to dilute the power of Democratic votes, they are punishing Democratic voters for associating with, and expressing support for, the Democratic Party. (The same goes, naturally, for Democrats drawing district lines to dilute the power of Republican votes.)

This viewpoint-based burden on the right to vote clearly infringes upon the freedom of expression and association protected by the First Amendment. Given that the First Amendment is the cornerstone of self-governance, political redistricting would seem to pose a grievous threat to representative democracy, entrenching undemocratic legislative majorities by penalizing voters who openly support the minority party.

It can be easy to get lost in the technicalities of constitutional doctrine, or the putative gobbledygook of gerrymandering math, and lose sight of the broader principle at stake. Sotomayor, though, has never been one to lose sight of first principles.”

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High Anxiety As First Student Loan Forgiveness Program ‘Graduates’ Await Relief This October

From Forbes authored by Diane Hembree:

“For debt-ridden Americans in federal student loan forgiveness programs, October is a month of hope and trepidation.

The first wave of college graduates who were accepted into the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program 10 years ago and made their payments faithfully each month are eagerly waiting to find out this October whether their debt is wiped clean, as promised.

In addition, a lawsuit charging the Department of Education with reversing its course on student loan forgiveness goes to a hearing in early October.

What happens will not only determine the fate of the first borrowers to complete the program — it’s a bellwether for the more than half a million college graduates enrolled in the program who are anxiously watching to see whether the government upholds its end of the bargain. The Department of Education created the program in 2007 so that college students could have their student loans wiped out if they worked in a public service job after graduation and followed rigorous repayment guidelines for 10 years.”

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Inspired or Frustrated, Women Go to Work for Themselves

From The New York Times authored by Kerry Hannon:

“An ocean separates Chupi Sweetman-Durney, who lives in Dublin, and Lea Giovanniello of Vienna, Va., and they have never met. Yet their workplace experiences and career paths — at a time when women still struggle with both — are a testament to what’s possible. Here are their stories.

Chupi Sweetman-Durney ran away from home when she was 6. She wisely took along the duvet cover from her bed, her doll and a book. She found a nesting spot under a tree, about a half-mile from her home in the Wicklow Mountains of Ireland. While her parents tracked her down in short order, it was her first overt action of independence.

But it was not her last.

After working as a women’s clothing designer for the British retailer Topshop for six years, Ms. Sweetman-Durney realized at 27 that she “just wasn’t in love with it anymore,” she said.

“It seemed crazy to quit, but I wanted to create something that would last and celebrate Ireland’s design history and craftsmanship.”

“Although I was brought up in a family where I did not have much experience with discrimination,” Ms. Sweetman-Durney said, “I had faced it after landing my contract with Topshop to design women’s dresses in 2005. I was refused a credit card with 500 euros of available credit, even though I had gone to the bank and shown them the contract.” At the same time, her boyfriend (now her husband, Brian) was a student and was accepted for a card with a credit line five times that amount.

Now 33, she runs her own successful Dublin-based jewelry business, Chupi,started four years ago.”

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