Law firms are the largest single group of employers for lawyers in India, but before we go any further, I’d like you to take a reality check of what the picture looks like in a big law firm:
- Such a firm can get as many as 80,000 applications for internships per month, but has a maximum of 40-50 seats for interns in any given month
- The number of job vacancies every year in a big law firm is around 20-30 at most
- Big firms typically have one HR professional and a full-time practicing lawyer who has to take out time from a 14-16 hour workday to select interns
- They are certainly not going to click on every application and find the best ones. They simply don’t have the time or resources to go through every application, most of which look very similar anyway
For a moment, imagine yourself in that position – what would you do? How would you identify the candidates best suited to your firm?
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