Featured Job Survey: Are You Looking?
Last month, our ATL / Lateral Link job survey asked you when your firms paid bonuses, and whether you were planning on changing jobs once those bonuses got paid. About 20% of you responded that you were considering leaving your current firms.
For some of you, this meant waiting until you got your bonus. For others, this meant asking the new firm to match the bonus you'd be leaving behind. And for yet another group, the bonus was irrelevant; you just wanted out.
Well, now that most firms have given associates at least some idea of what their bonuses will be -- and most have even paid them -- is your job search actually underway?
As a reward for your participation in today's survey, more results from this month's survey on hours and bonuses will show up in the results to this survey. So far we're up to about 1,550 responses. (The info will be visible once you've taken that survey.)
We'll share the results from today's survey next week. In the meantime, feel free to drop some comments about what your firms are doing to keep you. Cookies? Chair massages? Wear your jeans to work days? New lactation rooms? Or, dare we ask . . . retention bonuses?
(15) Comments
first!
i always wanted to do that.
guys at my high school posted first all the time, it was no big deal.
what about schulte?
your polls are annoying. i wish you didn't have to troll for your advertisers.
how are '06 grads faring in the job search?
Just ignore the polls if you don't like them.
Guys in my high school ignored things that didn't interest them all the time. It was no big deal.
I agree with 2:50.
And I want cookies and a retention bonus.
Don't use Lateral Link. You're better off just sending in your own resumes and cover letters and negotiating for the recruiter's take. They don't do anything at all.
All those yes votes are from Dickstein NY associates.
5:08, were you rejected by Lateral Link, or are you just a headhunter troll?
Why not do a thread about how many hours BigLaw First Years spend on doc review verus substantive assignments? e.g. what firms let first years do real work?
I know a man's gotta make a living, but come on - can we cool it with these polls? As we saw with the base salary/city/bonus polls, the results don't even correspond to reality, so what's the point of taking them or posting the results, other than to generate empty traffic around the web?
Lateral Link needs a new business model.
the poll is fine. taken with a grain of salt, the bonus/hours chart is kinda interesting.
wah wah wah to all of you.
the poll is fine. taken with a grain of salt, the bonus/hours chart is kinda interesting.
wah wah wah to all of you.
the poll is fine. stop yer moaning.