The Secret to Standing Out

The Secret to Standing Out

Learn the importance of commitment, what commitment means in practice, and how you can demonstrate commitment by being involved in marketing and business development, even as a summer associate.

Transcript

The social side of summer will be a lot of fun, and social events are a great way for you to initiate relationships with the people at your firm. But with all your summer-associate colleagues shaking the same hands, making similar small talk, and applying equal focus to using the correct fork at formal dinners, how can you stand out from the crowd? In this lesson, we’ll show you how to make a positive—and lasting—impression. The key to this is, in a word, commitment.

Commitment is essential...

Lessons

1. Introduction
  • Welcome to Succeeding as a Summer Associate
2. Delivering Great Work
  • Welcome to the Real World
  • The Firm, its Clients, and You
  • The Art of Taking Instructions
  • Getting Down to Work
  • Success in Writing
3. Building Great Relationships
  • The Confidence Trick
  • Summer’s Golden Rule
  • The Social Side of Summer
  • The Secret to Standing Out
  • The Challenge of Teams
4. Succeeding at Everything Else
  • The Feedback Loop
  • Perfect Presentations
  • Summer Time and Workload
  • Your Professional Summer
  • Final Impressions