Make the Right Career Move: 28 Critical Insights and Strategies to Land Your Dream Job (book review)

Book Review -- Make the Right Career Move: 28 Critical Insights and Strategies

The proof of the pudding is in the eating:  while writing this review, I was visiting a friend, a successful attorney who had recently "retired" after a distinguished, rewarding and remunerative career as a labor lawyer, mediator, litigator and law firm manager.  In the early hours of the morning I found him with his nose buried in the self-assessment worksheets Shelley Canter includes in Make the Right Career Move:  28 Critical Insights and Strategies to Land Your Dream Job.  "This is great," he said.  "Can you leave the book here with me?"

When it comes to choosing and developing a career, non-lawyers tend to think that those who have self-selected into the legal profession have lucked into a nice linear, stable career path.  Yet those of us who work primarily with lawyers know that they confront the same career angst, uncertainty, indecision and lack of direction as non-lawyers.

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