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Apr 18, 2024
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LEGAL 292 - Paralegal Success Skills
2.0 Credits
This course increases opportunities to locate a paralegal job or internship, and helps students design their personal strategy for career success. Topics include professional networking and branding; workload, time, and stress management; creating professional resumes and cover letters; and preparing for job interviews. Students are expected to bring an editable/digital draft of their current resume on the first day of class. Course includes classroom interaction with working paralegals and/or attorneys.
Prerequisite LEGAL 200 or instructor permission.
Course-level Learning Objectives (CLOs)
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Create professionally formatted paralegal resumes and cover letters regardless of one’s background or work experience.
- Demonstrate an understanding of effective job interviewing techniques, and identify common questions and effective answers during a job interview.
- Design a personal strategy for professional networking and branding.
- Describe effective techniques for managing workload, time, and stress in the workplace.
- Explain the importance of a paralegal internship to one’s career, and identify effective methods for locating paralegal internships and employment.
- Identify the characteristics of a successful paralegal and the opportunities for career advancement through professional certification, licensing, and lifelong learning.
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