The "hidden rules" of top law firms are exposed, how important it is to plan your own life!

How much influence does the hit variety show "Heart-beating Offer" have on high school students' choice of college and major?

After the first season was broadcast, the number of students applying for the law major increased a lot in the 2020 college entrance examination candidates' application form, and the admission scores of law schools in many universities remained high.

The variety show "Exciting Offer 2" is still about 8 interns who dream of becoming lawyers. They spend a month as an intern at China's top law firm-Jun He Law Firm and compete for 2 A quota for regularization. This law firm is a member of the "20,000 yuan club", that is, the starting salary of the law firm's employees is 20,000 yuan/month, and some foreign-related groups have 24,000 yuan/month.

After the program was broadcast, the selection criteria of this top law firm once again sparked heated discussions. For high school students, these standards just explain how important it is to clarify career goals, choose a suitable major, and plan your life as early as possible.

In the interview, there were two unsuccessful candidates who were impressive, namely No. 1 and No. 6.

No. 1 He Xinlei is good-looking and well-educated. He has obtained a legal professional qualification certificate and has relevant internship experience, but his parents want him to apply for civil servants.

Before the interview, He Xinlei followed the advice of her parents and took the civil service exam. When the interviewer lawyer Liang Chunjuan asked her, "Do you want to be a civil servant or a lawyer?", she was very hesitant. When Lawyer Liang then asked her about her career plans, she was even more confused. Entering a law firm or entering the civil service system are two completely different paths. The hesitation of applicant No. 1 just shows that she lacks clear career goals and has not thought about what she wants to do;

Applicant No. 6 The author, Liu Zhenhong, graduated from Minzu University of China. He likes English very much and has taken many elective courses in this area. But when the interviewer, lawyer Shi Xinyue, asked him what direction he wanted to be a lawyer in the future, he replied that anything related to English would be fine. This aroused the question of the lawyer present, "Do I like law or English?" To become a lawyer Practitioner or becoming an English practitioner, these are two different paths.

Neither He Xinlei nor Liu Zhenhong passed the reexamination. After reading the entire interview process, it is not difficult to find that it is very important to the interviewer whether the applicant knows his or her life plan or career plan. Excellent companies will not recruit employees at will. Without clear career goals, they may not be able to pass the first hurdle.

As soon as the show started airing, other people with elite school backgrounds and Ding Hui were heatedly discussed by the audience. Compared with others who have backgrounds such as studying abroad or studying in prestigious law schools, Ding Hui’s resume seems a bit out of place:

He studied cultural industry management in a second university as an undergraduate, and worked in sales for a year after graduation. , nakedly admitted to East China University of Political Science and Law as a graduate student, and was almost 30 years old when I participated in this internship interview.

He relied on his own efforts to achieve a certain degree of counterattack in his life. However, during the initial interview, he was not appreciated by the four elite lawyers because his undergraduate major was not law and the undergraduate school was not a prestigious school. After the internship began, Ding Hui performed well, but he frequently ranked at the bottom: The first assessment was predicted to be favorable by outside observers, and he was predicted to be "either second or first", but the result was 8th place at the bottom. ; In the debate competition, at the critical moment, one versus three won the debate, but the assessment result ranked last again...

"Feeling sorry for Ding Hui" was once on the hot search, and it also triggered heated discussions. Observers on the sidelines gave certain answers to this situation:

When you choose to return to the same starting line with some people with zero foundation, the basic conditions you have accumulated before have not allowed you to succeed. If you have advantages alone, then this choice will add a lot of burden to you.

Ding Hui works hard, but older people who enter the industry later have higher trial and error costs and lack more opportunities to make mistakes, take wrong paths, and take detours. Therefore, his "counterattack" may be more difficult and further.

If you can apply for a major that suits your development, choose the right track, and prepare in advance when applying for your choice, it may not be so difficult and you can avoid some detours.

As the variety show continues to be popular, I believe there will be high school students who want to apply for the law major and enter top law firms in the future. Let’s first take a look at what kind of people can enter JunHe, the top domestic law firm with a starting salary of 20,000 yuan? The picture below shows the official application requirements for junior lawyers at JunHe.

The first mandatory requirement for recruitment is: a bachelor’s degree or above from a well-known law school at home and abroad. Putting aside studying abroad, there is a saying in China's higher legal education circles: only those who have graduated from the "five colleges and four departments" can be regarded as "law students" in the true sense. The legal disciplines of these nine universities play a decisive role in China's legal education sector. Today, nearly 80% of key personnel in China's judicial organs have training backgrounds in five colleges and four departments.

What are the "Five Academies and Four Departments"? "Five colleges and four departments" is the abbreviation of the five political and judicial schools and the four university law schools established in New China, which can be called a dream palace for law students.

The “five colleges” are China University of Political Science and Law, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Southwest University of Political Science and Law, East China University of Political Science and Law, and Northwest University of Political Science and Law (CUPL and Zhongnan University of Finance and Economics are world-class discipline-building institutions).

The "four departments" are the law schools of four prestigious Chinese universities: Peking University, Renmin University of China, Jilin University, and Wuhan University (the four universities are all world-class universities).

Although the law major has been rated as a "red card major" in recent years, nationwide, the employment rate, salary and employment satisfaction are relatively low. But on the one hand, lawyers have a decent job and can earn a lot of money if they can enter a top law firm; on the other hand, the "professional equivalent" of law is to enter the public, prosecutorial and judicial organs, which is also the "iron rice bowl" that many students and parents seek, so The law major has always been a popular major to apply for.

There are many colleges offering law majors. For the new college entrance examination area, most colleges require unlimited subjects in law. So besides the "five colleges and four departments", which other colleges are good choices? According to the evaluation results of the law discipline of the "Fourth Round of Discipline Evaluation", the table below lists universities with grades "B+" and above for reference.

Under the background of the new college entrance examination, career planning, high school subject selection, and volunteer application are closely integrated. The subjects you choose in high school determine what majors you can apply for in the future; the majors you study in college will, to a certain extent, affect your future career development.

There are many candidates like Ding Hui who have no direction when applying for college. They do not understand their own interests, personality, abilities and career goals, etc., which leads to their muddled learning in college. After graduation, There have been many trials and errors and stumbles in career development.

For high school students, making a good career plan, clarifying career goals, choosing a suitable major, and planning your life as early as possible are the first steps to get yourself ahead of the starting line and avoid detours.