{"id":4807,"date":"2015-04-23T16:34:12","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T23:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/?p=4807"},"modified":"2015-04-23T16:34:12","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T23:34:12","slug":"first-ever-paralegal-career-night-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/uncategorized\/first-ever-paralegal-career-night-a-success\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFirst Ever Paralegal Career Night a Success!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/04\/Paralegal-Career-Night-Panel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-4808 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2015\/04\/Paralegal-Career-Night-Panel-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Paralegal Career Night Panel\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Paralegal-Career-Night-Panel-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Paralegal-Career-Night-Panel-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Paralegal-Career-Night-Panel.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>On Thursday, April 16, over 80 guests attended Skyline College\u2019s inaugural Paralegal\/Legal Career Night. \u00a0The event, held on the second floor of Building 6, featured three discussion panels on legal employment and education: <em>Pathways to Law School<\/em>, <em>Getting Started as a Paralegal<\/em>, and <em>Career Options for Paralegals<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The panelists\u2014practicing lawyers and paralegals, legal recruiters, hiring managers, and legal educators\u2014offered inspiring stories, key insights, and hard won professional advice, all with the goal of helping students achieve their goals of entering the legal profession. \u00a0The response from students in attendance was positive.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The truth is that I&#8217;ve been questioning my decision in my career choice lately&#8230; Attending the career night and talking to one of the panelists help me to keep pushing myself. \u00a0So, I just wanted to say thank you!&#8221; ~Minh<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI feel much more comfortable with the opportunities that lie ahead\u00a0\u2026\u00a0I felt encouraged in my interest in law, motivated by the smart words of so many professionals, and happy to see all of the program&#8217;s students gathered in one place together.\u201d ~Bryan<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This event was made possible by Skyline College\u2019s support for innovative events and programming and by the hard work and dedication of Jesse Raskin, Soledad McCarthy, Alina Varona, Lavinia Zanassi, and Lezra Chenportillo, and others who helped plan, organize, and staff the event.<\/p>\n<p>The event received generous support from The Career Center and The Center for Workforce Development\u2019s Career Advancement Academy. To learn more about careers in the legal field and the Legal Careers Career Advancement Academy please visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skylinecollege.edu\/caa\/legalcareers.php\">http:\/\/www.skylinecollege.edu\/caa\/legalcareers.php<\/a> or email <a href=\"mailto:skycaa@smccd.edu\">skycaa@smccd.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Article by Alina Varona | Photos by Lezra Chenportillo and Alice Kuo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, April 16, over 80 guests attended Skyline College\u2019s inaugural Paralegal\/Legal Career Night. \u00a0The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}