A Day in the Life of Aashna Jain, Founder of Career Solutions by Aashna Jain

A Day in the Life of Aashna Jain, Founder of Career Solutions by Aashna Jain

This post is part of our ‘A Day in the Life’ segment, where we showcase the lives of legal professionals. The segment aims to help you make inspired and informed career decisions.

Aashna jain is an advocate by qualification and a career coach by professiondedicated to guiding law students and legal professionals in shaping successful careers. After graduating from law school and gaining experience at two of India’s leading law firmsshe transitioned into career coaching, recognizing the need for structured guidance in the legal field.

In 2020, she founded Career Solutions by Jaina consultancy focused on mentoring students and young professionals in securing internships and legal jobs. Through one-on-one mentorship and skill-building strategies, she has helped hundreds of aspirants navigate the competitive legal job market.

Aashna is frequently invited by National Law Universitiesother top educational institutions, and reputed organizations to conduct workshops on resume drafting and interview preparation. She recently launched her e-book titled “Interview Solutions”offering practical guidance on cracking legal interviews with confidence and clarity.

My current professional title has evolved from being a career coach to a career strategist. I have around 5 years of experience in the career space.

It goes back to the time, when I was in my fourth year of law school and I received job offers from law firms. Post which I had one complete year to myself, with no internships and no major study load. That is when I used to help my friends from NLUJ (my college) and other law schools, in tailoring their resume and taking mock interviews before their actual job interviews.

In fact when I joined SAM and later Dua Associates, I assisted many interns and even associates in reviewing their resume and guiding them on interview prep. So while I lockdown hit and I decided that, I was no longer willing to continue with law, the decision to pursue career strategy came very naturally to me.

The mis-information and lack of information that students and young professionals have about securing internships and jobs in the legal field.

My day starts off with client mentoring sessions, sometimes as early as 7:00 a.m. and then they go up-to 6/7 p.m. During my breaks in between in these sessions, I batch create my LinkedIn posts for the entire week if possible and on other days, batch create my Instagram reels.

Twice I week, I am occupied with either taking an information interview from an industry professional for my YouTube Channel or have the good fortune of being invited on a podcast for career tips.

On some days, I am hosting a workshop for a law school on interview strategy, group discussions, etc. Further, most of my admin work revolves around finalizing my calendar for the next day and the month ahead.

Career Strategy is not a specific outcome driven work, because it is dependent largely on how the receiver of that info., decides to implement the said strategy, therefore on so many days one can feel the imposter syndrome kicking in. On those days, positive words from my mentees helps me the most.

The good part is the blessings one receives when a mentee says, I was so lost and now I feel so much better about the next steps for my career or when one secures their dream internship or a job, they usually reach out with heartfelt messages, it usually makes up for everything.

My content like other legal professionals is not around creating awareness of law and neither is it just centered on informing legal vacancies. I usually discuss the pain points in the entire legal journey of a candidate, starting from PPOs, Resume, Interviews, Internships, etc., coupled with ideas on how to charter through that path.

For Resume: Don’t info. Dump on your resume. Categorize the information under different skill-sets. It makes the resume more reader friendly.

For Interviews: Knowing the correct answer will not always get you selected for the role. It is also about how you present that info. to the interviewer. Structure and clarity in responses trumps most of the things.

I am definitely seeing a positive shift in professionals opting for non-traditional careers such as Business Development, Knowledge Management, Legal Journalism, Career Coaching, Legal Tech. However, the pathway is not as structured as getting a job at a traditional law firm. That may be a bottleneck for the next 5 to 10 years, but lawyers are smart people, they will eventually figure out the ways.

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