i live in lagos nigeria,am an automechanic seeking automobile schools in USA,but i don't know how to get in.
i have tried to contact schools over there in the US but its almost impossible from Nigeria.i know i could improve in my profession if only i could attend an automobile school.i need guidiance on what and how to achieve my dreams.
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go on the internet to search for U.S. schools/colleges and enter that way. That's how many U.S. student enter college.
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Thursday, June 24, 2010
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
i live in lagos nigeria,am an automechanic seeking automobile schools in USA,but i don't know how to get in.
i live in lagos nigeria,am an automechanic seeking automobile schools in USA,but i don't know how to get in.
i have tried to contact schools over there in the US but its almost impossible from Nigeria.i know i could improve in my profession if only i could attend an automobile school.i need guidiance on what and how to achieve my dreams.
Other - Education - 1 Answers
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go on the internet to search for U.S. schools/colleges and enter that way. That's how many U.S. student enter college.
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i have tried to contact schools over there in the US but its almost impossible from Nigeria.i know i could improve in my profession if only i could attend an automobile school.i need guidiance on what and how to achieve my dreams.
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go on the internet to search for U.S. schools/colleges and enter that way. That's how many U.S. student enter college.
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Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Would it be hard to get a job in the USA if i went to school and university in the UK
Would it be hard to get a job in the USA if i went to school and university in the UK?
Obviously for some jobs, like lawyers i would have to do a course in the US because US law is different but if it was a pretty much universal job would my qualifications mean anything and would they think of the universities like Bristol, Durham, Windsor etc as very good universities or not.
Studying Abroad - 3 Answers
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tyeah u would get a job ur qualifications r just as good there
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i live in bristol.. that uni SUCKS!
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It may be a little more difficult depending on the field of study....and level of education....
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Obviously for some jobs, like lawyers i would have to do a course in the US because US law is different but if it was a pretty much universal job would my qualifications mean anything and would they think of the universities like Bristol, Durham, Windsor etc as very good universities or not.
Studying Abroad - 3 Answers
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tyeah u would get a job ur qualifications r just as good there
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i live in bristol.. that uni SUCKS!
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It may be a little more difficult depending on the field of study....and level of education....
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Tuesday, June 1, 2010
How hard is it to get a job after law school
How hard is it to get a job after law school ?
I have heard many law students complaining and saying how law sucks and how they wished that they never went to law school . I have also heard that if you don't graduate from the 10 top law schools in the USA , you won't be able to get a job after you are done . I need details and which types of lawyers are easier to get job these days . I mean what field of laws . Any details would be appreciated . Thanks
Law & Legal - 3 Answers
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No one ever asks their lawyer which school they went to. You will still get a job fine even if you go to a state school. Many lawyers are not hired anyway. They set up their own private practive. And no matter what they are always so short of public defenders, any lawyer can get public defender work. Not the best paying but there is a lot of it.
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VERY hard. Choosing a career is one of life's most important decisions. Be aware of what you are proposing on getting yourself into. Please do more research first. Reminder: We are in a World-wide Recession. Consider career paths that have available JOBS.<<<<< Warning> Jobs in the field of Law are drying up fast!! This is just not a good field to invest time and/or money into. This is a SHRINKING, crumbling, and dying vocational field. Many reasons. We now have computers. So, many people today (mistakenly) think they can do their own legal work, thanks to the Internet. Also, there are a lot of companies out there making very efficient legal software for the field of Law. Today's graduating lawyers tend to be very computer savvy, so they just do the work themselves to save themselves the cost of overhead. Also, the "Public" buys this legal software in order to get legal work done without the cost of an Attorney. Also, we simply already have way too many Legal Professionals - we have an absolute glut!! ("Legal Professionals" includes, but is not limited to: Attorneys/Lawyers, Paralegals, Legal Assistants, Legal Secretaries, Bailiffs, Court Reporters, etc, etc) The field of Law has a mystique that actually exceeds reality. The field of Law is an overrated career - mostly by television. There are many myths regarding the field of Law: working as a Lawyer is mentally challenging (Actually, most work as an attorney involves routine paperwork: research, cite checking, drafting documents, and document review. Attorneys need to write down and track every activity they do, all day long [in 6 to 15 minutes increments, depending on the billing system] - a painstaking but necessary task), being an attorney is thrilling, high-powered, and glamorous (remember: television is fiction - the fictional lawyers on TV are ACTORS - the majority of work that an attorney does, does not happen in a courtroom), law students think that because they are good at arguing they will become great attorneys (actually being a great attorney is more in one's ability to mediate between differing sides and bringing them to agreement), as a lawyer I can correct injustices (actually legal decisions are more about reaching compromises than about right vs. wrong), guaranteed financial success (actually when salaries are compared, you also need to account for cost-of living expenses [most large law firms are in large cities - the bigger the city, the more cost-of-living expenses will be], payment of debts accrued while attending law school, and time needed to build a client base. Many large law firms require lawyers to work 60-80 hours per week.). Cost of law school to be lawyer, approx $150,000+. Be prepared to take on a LOT of debt.<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< There are no jobs in this vocational field. My family, coworkers, friends, acqaintances, etc. have been laid off left and right in this vocational field. Employers (usually law firms) in the field of Law today want employees with degrees from traditional colleges/universities. Those "certificates" you see advertised aren't worth the paper they are printed on - they are generally scams. (I found this out the hard way.) Also, the law school's program needs to be accredited by the American Bar Association - if it isn't, you are just wasting your time/money. Even if you finish law school, you won't be able to find a job when you are done. Since this vocational field is shrinking, many new attorneys/lawyers are, themselves, having to work "down" as Paralegals, Legal Assistants, Legal Secretaries, Bailiffs, Court Reporters, etc, etc, to simply try to keep some of their bills paid <<this would be your competition. And the competition is fierce!! Now... the law schools know this, but they won't tell you the truth >that the job market/economy is just SATURATED with way too many Legal Professionals. Instead the schools will feed you a fairytale and will LIE to you. The root of the problem is we have too many law schools. We are in a recession, and the schools are fighting for their own survival - they will tell students anything to get to the students' money. (Which is why they won't tell you the truth about the job market for the field of Law.) And these schools continue to recruit and churn out even more graduates.............Remember: law schools are BUSINESSES - their top concern is making money for themselves. If you don't believe me, then just do a SEARCH here on Yahoo Answers to see what other posters are saying about the current status of the field of Law. Call some local law firms - ask to speak to the Manager of Human Resources - ask them if they are hiring; ask them what they think about job availability in the field of Law.................. In the book "So You Want to be a Lawyer?" by Marianne Calabrese and Susanne Calabrese (ISBN 0-88391-136-1): "The United States has more lawyers than any other country in the world. About 38,000
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It depends on what kind of job you are looking for, but in general, it is a very competitive market in the United States to be hired by an employer as a lawyer, whether the employer is a law firm, company, government agency or public interest organization. Associate positions in large law firms are the most competitive ones and if you are not from one of the top 14 law schools in the nation (as ranked by US News and World Report), your chances of getting an offer diminish the lower your school ranking falls in the ranking below 14, especially if you do not have a high GPA. If you're law school is outside the top 100 law schools (i.e. one of the other 100 plus law schools) you will probably never ever work in a large law firm. In addition, generally speaking, large law firms are the only firms that hire on a regular basis every year and offer a six figure salary for law school graduates (and the current economy has impacted so badly on large law firms that many of them are not hiring law school graduates even though they normally do so every year and even some law school graduates from the top 14 are scrounging around for any kind of work as a lawyer). The remaining areas of employment are from companies and small law firms, which often do not hire on a regular basis and usually offer significantly less money than big law firms for law school graduates, and government agencies and public interest law groups, which may hire on a regular basis but offer salaries on the low end (20k-50k). While these areas are not as competitve as large law firms, they are still comptetive nonetheless and the lower your law school ranking and grades are the less chance you will have of being hired. The easiest source of employment is as a contract attorney, meaning you are hired on a project by project basis and paid an hourly wage without health or employee benefits. Even this work is often not attainable by graduates from low ranked law schools and in the current environment the work involved is repetitive, mundane and demoralizing (basic document review, document production and document coding) and the pay is low (currently less than $30 per hour on many NYC contract assignments). Additionally, more and more of this kind of work is being outsourced to countries like India. In general the disproportionate number of law school graduates to entry level law jobs guarantess that a significant amount of law school graduates will not be able to secure employment as a lawyer within 1 year of graduation and many law school graduates never become employed as lawyers as a result. In addition, because U.S. law matriculation does not involve apprenticeship/articling, and the official law school curriculum for ABA certified law schools has no mandatory practical training clinics or classes, most law school graduates are not even properly trained to practice law on their own even with regards to the most basic aspects of legal practice such as filing a civil complain/answer, or incorporating a business. Most would probably end up committing legal malpractice at some point (many who try to practice on their own straight out of law school do) without proper training and guidance from a more experienced lawyer. Finally, you can't just "get public defender work." You have to work for the public defender's office and they have limited funds to hire attorneys so the volume of work is irrelevant to the availability of jobs. Funding is the issue.
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I have heard many law students complaining and saying how law sucks and how they wished that they never went to law school . I have also heard that if you don't graduate from the 10 top law schools in the USA , you won't be able to get a job after you are done . I need details and which types of lawyers are easier to get job these days . I mean what field of laws . Any details would be appreciated . Thanks
Law & Legal - 3 Answers
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1 :
No one ever asks their lawyer which school they went to. You will still get a job fine even if you go to a state school. Many lawyers are not hired anyway. They set up their own private practive. And no matter what they are always so short of public defenders, any lawyer can get public defender work. Not the best paying but there is a lot of it.
2 :
VERY hard. Choosing a career is one of life's most important decisions. Be aware of what you are proposing on getting yourself into. Please do more research first. Reminder: We are in a World-wide Recession. Consider career paths that have available JOBS.<<<<< Warning> Jobs in the field of Law are drying up fast!! This is just not a good field to invest time and/or money into. This is a SHRINKING, crumbling, and dying vocational field. Many reasons. We now have computers. So, many people today (mistakenly) think they can do their own legal work, thanks to the Internet. Also, there are a lot of companies out there making very efficient legal software for the field of Law. Today's graduating lawyers tend to be very computer savvy, so they just do the work themselves to save themselves the cost of overhead. Also, the "Public" buys this legal software in order to get legal work done without the cost of an Attorney. Also, we simply already have way too many Legal Professionals - we have an absolute glut!! ("Legal Professionals" includes, but is not limited to: Attorneys/Lawyers, Paralegals, Legal Assistants, Legal Secretaries, Bailiffs, Court Reporters, etc, etc) The field of Law has a mystique that actually exceeds reality. The field of Law is an overrated career - mostly by television. There are many myths regarding the field of Law: working as a Lawyer is mentally challenging (Actually, most work as an attorney involves routine paperwork: research, cite checking, drafting documents, and document review. Attorneys need to write down and track every activity they do, all day long [in 6 to 15 minutes increments, depending on the billing system] - a painstaking but necessary task), being an attorney is thrilling, high-powered, and glamorous (remember: television is fiction - the fictional lawyers on TV are ACTORS - the majority of work that an attorney does, does not happen in a courtroom), law students think that because they are good at arguing they will become great attorneys (actually being a great attorney is more in one's ability to mediate between differing sides and bringing them to agreement), as a lawyer I can correct injustices (actually legal decisions are more about reaching compromises than about right vs. wrong), guaranteed financial success (actually when salaries are compared, you also need to account for cost-of living expenses [most large law firms are in large cities - the bigger the city, the more cost-of-living expenses will be], payment of debts accrued while attending law school, and time needed to build a client base. Many large law firms require lawyers to work 60-80 hours per week.). Cost of law school to be lawyer, approx $150,000+. Be prepared to take on a LOT of debt.<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< There are no jobs in this vocational field. My family, coworkers, friends, acqaintances, etc. have been laid off left and right in this vocational field. Employers (usually law firms) in the field of Law today want employees with degrees from traditional colleges/universities. Those "certificates" you see advertised aren't worth the paper they are printed on - they are generally scams. (I found this out the hard way.) Also, the law school's program needs to be accredited by the American Bar Association - if it isn't, you are just wasting your time/money. Even if you finish law school, you won't be able to find a job when you are done. Since this vocational field is shrinking, many new attorneys/lawyers are, themselves, having to work "down" as Paralegals, Legal Assistants, Legal Secretaries, Bailiffs, Court Reporters, etc, etc, to simply try to keep some of their bills paid <<this would be your competition. And the competition is fierce!! Now... the law schools know this, but they won't tell you the truth >that the job market/economy is just SATURATED with way too many Legal Professionals. Instead the schools will feed you a fairytale and will LIE to you. The root of the problem is we have too many law schools. We are in a recession, and the schools are fighting for their own survival - they will tell students anything to get to the students' money. (Which is why they won't tell you the truth about the job market for the field of Law.) And these schools continue to recruit and churn out even more graduates.............Remember: law schools are BUSINESSES - their top concern is making money for themselves. If you don't believe me, then just do a SEARCH here on Yahoo Answers to see what other posters are saying about the current status of the field of Law. Call some local law firms - ask to speak to the Manager of Human Resources - ask them if they are hiring; ask them what they think about job availability in the field of Law.................. In the book "So You Want to be a Lawyer?" by Marianne Calabrese and Susanne Calabrese (ISBN 0-88391-136-1): "The United States has more lawyers than any other country in the world. About 38,000
3 :
It depends on what kind of job you are looking for, but in general, it is a very competitive market in the United States to be hired by an employer as a lawyer, whether the employer is a law firm, company, government agency or public interest organization. Associate positions in large law firms are the most competitive ones and if you are not from one of the top 14 law schools in the nation (as ranked by US News and World Report), your chances of getting an offer diminish the lower your school ranking falls in the ranking below 14, especially if you do not have a high GPA. If you're law school is outside the top 100 law schools (i.e. one of the other 100 plus law schools) you will probably never ever work in a large law firm. In addition, generally speaking, large law firms are the only firms that hire on a regular basis every year and offer a six figure salary for law school graduates (and the current economy has impacted so badly on large law firms that many of them are not hiring law school graduates even though they normally do so every year and even some law school graduates from the top 14 are scrounging around for any kind of work as a lawyer). The remaining areas of employment are from companies and small law firms, which often do not hire on a regular basis and usually offer significantly less money than big law firms for law school graduates, and government agencies and public interest law groups, which may hire on a regular basis but offer salaries on the low end (20k-50k). While these areas are not as competitve as large law firms, they are still comptetive nonetheless and the lower your law school ranking and grades are the less chance you will have of being hired. The easiest source of employment is as a contract attorney, meaning you are hired on a project by project basis and paid an hourly wage without health or employee benefits. Even this work is often not attainable by graduates from low ranked law schools and in the current environment the work involved is repetitive, mundane and demoralizing (basic document review, document production and document coding) and the pay is low (currently less than $30 per hour on many NYC contract assignments). Additionally, more and more of this kind of work is being outsourced to countries like India. In general the disproportionate number of law school graduates to entry level law jobs guarantess that a significant amount of law school graduates will not be able to secure employment as a lawyer within 1 year of graduation and many law school graduates never become employed as lawyers as a result. In addition, because U.S. law matriculation does not involve apprenticeship/articling, and the official law school curriculum for ABA certified law schools has no mandatory practical training clinics or classes, most law school graduates are not even properly trained to practice law on their own even with regards to the most basic aspects of legal practice such as filing a civil complain/answer, or incorporating a business. Most would probably end up committing legal malpractice at some point (many who try to practice on their own straight out of law school do) without proper training and guidance from a more experienced lawyer. Finally, you can't just "get public defender work." You have to work for the public defender's office and they have limited funds to hire attorneys so the volume of work is irrelevant to the availability of jobs. Funding is the issue.
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