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I wanted to understand how much weight hirers give to blog publications on a CV. Never really got onto that bandwagon and I'm wondering if I would be missing out on a lot by not having a few blog publications on my CV. Thanks!
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So my advice would be, definitely pursue legal writing, be it Blogs, Op-Eds or Journal articles. Do try to publish at reputable places as they serve as an indicator of the quality of your writing to me because I'm definitely not going to be able to read what you've written even if we might talk about it in your interview. Try to not publish in "scam" Journals etc. They're easy to catch and more importantly, if you haven't done the work on a subject to publish it at a good place and we end up talking about that specific article, you not knowing enough about it is definitely one bad way for you to be out of my shortlist.
At the end of the day, we like you enough on paper if you're at the interview stage, we're trying to see if you match up to the paper profile you've built for yourself. Therefore, you not knowing about what you've published on, especially if it's a journal article, is a huge red flag.