Overconfident 2L Brooke Moon renounced the need to engage meaningfully with her classes in any way last week after her OCI schedule became available on the award-winning legal platform, MyCareer.
“Sixteen clicks and three log-in pages later, and there they were,” Moon said. “When I saw I had interviews, I knew this was it. I knew I would never have to go to class again.”
Moon applied for 35 postings in the span of an eight-hour period on the Law Society application deadline of Monday, August 19. Self-reports from LawStudents.ca suggest most students apply to as many as 100 firms and are extended, on average, every interview they request. With only three interviews lined up, Moon is well below average, but unphased.
“I’m just the kind of person who just, like, really interviews really well,” said Moon, whose masterful cover letters mentioned firm names just once and thereby contained no errors. “I think they’re really going to like me.”
Moon spent several hours last Monday afternoon messaging colleagues from her 1L section to see who had gotten offers. She received mostly positive responses from her former classmates despite not having seen any of them since 1L winter exams. Only three colleagues artfully evaded her transparent request for reassurance and only four left her on read. Many 2Ls undergo this critical communication period as a right of passage, marking the transition between their desire to work in public interest and their desire to say they work on Bay Street.
“I’m not in it for the money,” Moon says. “I’m not like other 2Ls. I’m doing this because I actually really like taxation law.”
Moon, who is not enrolled in taxation law this year, interviews on October 17th and 18th. Students not participating in the OCI process are expected to disappear from the radar of the Career Development Office later this week.