September 18, 2008
Search Twitter for Job Openings
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Posted at 11:33 AM
August 16, 2006
Will Blogging Get You Hired?
Maybe. Maybe if the firm gets blogging like Dunlap, Codding and Rogers or Farella Braun + Martel. Maybe if several soon to be co-workers read your blog on a regular basis and are impressed with your writing.
Or maybe it could get you dooced.
Maybe if as a result of reading blogs you learn about and stay abreast of important topics such as data privacy, data security, regulations applicable to on-line commerce, DMCA, tax, Sarbanes-Oxley, Digital Rights Management, state and federal consumer protection statutes, licensing of third-party applications in a hosted environment and US export controls; topics that are apparently important to some companies - Sun, for example.
Maybe you get lucky and someone takes a flyer on you, even though you have been practicing in some unrelated field for the past several years, and you go on to become a pre-eminent copyright scholar.
Yeah. So maybe you should get started blogging today ... or at least reading about topics in fields that you find interesting ... or not. You decide.
Prior Entries:
* If you don't get blogs...
* Compilation of Corporate and Employment Related Blogging Articles
* Blogging category
Related Entries: Everything You Wanted to Know About Getting a Job in Silicon Valley But Didn't Know Who to Ask
Posted at 02:10 PM
June 15, 2006
Should my resume include myspace profile?
NYT says no:
"Many companies that recruit on college campuses have been using search engines like Google and Yahoo to conduct background checks on seniors looking for their first job. But now, college career counselors and other experts say, some recruiters are looking up applicants on social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, Xanga and Friendster, where college students often post risqué or teasing photographs and provocative comments about drinking, recreational drug use and sexual exploits in what some mistakenly believe is relative privacy."For Some, Online Persona Undermines a Résumé
but Lici says Hell yeah!:
"a MySpace page is like an anti-resume. So just be prepared for whatever company you're interviewing with to see the slutty ho pics of yourself you took late one night, to have whatever song is on your page have its coolness factor dissected, in fact everything you have on your page will be dissected. Not because we care, but because you are our afternoon entertainment, a corporate 15 minutes of fame if you will. So mostly it could be a bad thing. But for little Blake or Preston, well he was lucky enough to have passed the screening process."Myspace... helping kids get interviews since 2003
Posted at 10:58 PM
May 30, 2006
Back to the Law
The American Bar Association's business law section has established a program for lawyers who have left the work force:
Back to Business Law provides seminars and informal networking opportunities for lawyers who had left active practice but were still interested in corporate law. The group has a Web site at backtobusinesslaw.org.
[Finding a Way Back to the Law, NYT, May 25, 06]
Posted at 03:11 PM
May 01, 2006
'Cloaking' Information and the Marketplace for Lateral Associates
Bruce MacEwen on 'Cloaking' Information and the Marketplace for Lateral Associates: "Finally, in yet another triumph for the law of unintended consequences, a prominent recruiter in Washington, D.C., told me in confidence if a firm adopts "cloaking," it has essentially turned the klieg lights of attention upon itself and is viewed as fertile ground for finding associates looking to move."
Related: Poach Associates.
This related article served as the basis for the launch of this site.
[re-post from Jan 2006]
Posted at 09:30 PM
My Interest in Intellectual Property Law
One of the things that first got me interested in the intersection of technology and intellectual property law was the conversations I would have with the programmers and developers (consultants) that I was hiring to work at Bankers Trust. Part of my job was to have them sign an Intellectual Property Agreement that basically said 'We own what you think' (sub or day pass req'd) [via] or more exactly anything you create while working for the "Company."
The techies were often aggrieved by the language of the agreement and would ask me questions that I couldn't answer such as "What about something I work on at home or that I have created, but not yet finished prior to starting here." At the time I did not know the answer. I did sympathize with the techs and promised to get back to them with answers (these issues are still to a certain extent unresolved).
One recommendation I read this morning said that "when you're offered an employment contract cross out the section that says they own anything you create while employed there." The only problem with that one is I would have thanked you for coming and then sent you on your way home and called your agency for a new group of resumes.
Unfortunately, that's why you have outcomes like this:
In July, the Texas Court of Appeals turned down software programmer Evan Brown's appeal for a jury trial to decide who owned an idea in his head: Brown, or his former employer. The decision was a victory for business and a blow to the little guy, as well as an affirmation of standard employment-contract law. [Salon]
[re-post from August 2004]
Posted at 01:24 AM