Becoming A Law Clerk: How To Achieve Your Goals

April 13th, 2015 / By triOS College

Don’t just roll your eyes when it comes to setting goals or being ‘proactive.’ Do you really follow through on all of your assignments as quickly and effectively as you should? Most of us don’t, yet we scoff at these things even when they can help us succeed in vital roles, such as our trained law clerks here in Windsor. Today’s careers simply require more out of trained students, so let’s take a look at how to meet the challenge. How do you accomplish the goal of becoming a law clerk?

law clerk smiling holding legal documents

Law Clerks prepare legal documents, maintain files, and conduct research in legal departments of large companies, real estate companies, land title offices, and municipal, provincial, or federal courts.

 

Education isn’t cheap, but it’s where most of us need to start. It takes a lot of time and costs a lot of money. Why do we enrol in the first place? Everyone has a different reason. Some want to pursue a specific career while others still search for their career callings. Parents can be a powerful driving force in this process as well, since young adults simply haven’t seen enough of the world to know exactly where they fit into it by the time they need to think about post-secondary education.

Whether you are spending $40,000 and six years on a doctoral program or $1,000 and six weeks on a training course, you’ll want to get the most out of your experience. Education is a big decision with long-term implications. If you buy a car, you don’t want to be stuck driving around in something you don’t like. Education is a much bigger decision. Your education will shape you as a person. You’ll pick up habits, ideas, values, and credentials. You are really choosing who you want to be for the rest of your life, so choose well!

Thankfully, goal setting isn’t difficult to do. You’ll be halfway to becoming a law clerk in Windsor before you know it. It makes studying a lot more productive, which takes a huge chunk of boredom out of the process. The trick is to set manageable goals rather than saying, “I want to be successful at whatever career I choose to pursue.”

There are some tricks to the trade. Break it down into steps and tasks that you can work toward in a much shorter period of time. Enter a law clerk program in Windsor before you hand out résumés, and find out if you have the high school credentials to enter the program. If you don’t, then find out which courses you need to complete and pursue those! Start with the things that you can control. Rome wasn’t built in a day, and neither are careers.

 

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