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[quote=Anonymous]I am at a fed financial regulator that has a good QOL, high quality legal work, and pays well above GS.  It's a very desirable legal job, as far as federal jobs go, and every time we hire we have an abundance of extraordinarily qualified candidates.

I have a professional contact who is a 6th or 7th year associate at a well-regarded biglaw firm  He reached out to me a while ago about applying for a job in a different division of my agency and we chatted a little about the job.

He just reached out to me again, a few weeks after submitting his application, to ask about the timeline and I told him I didn't know where they were at in the process.  He seemed pretty eager to get an interview so I also tried to gently tell him that they likely got 100s of qualified applicants and he shouldn't be too discouraged if he doesn't move forward this time.

He scoffed at this and told me he "has to be" in the top few candidates "just based on [his] experience".  This guy has some generic biglaw litigation experience, a little bit of regulatory defense work in areas unrelated to my agency, and has worked on a few class action matters that tangentially relate to some of the laws my agency enforces.  He's got a good academic record from top schools and he is at a big brand name firm, but that's virtually all he has going for him -  which isn't nearly enough for the position he applied for.  I tried (again, gently) to tell him that there are probably many applicants with appellate clerkships and direct experience working on the issues and cases my agency is responsible for.  He was totally tilted, as if he never even considered that his generic biglaw resume wasn't an automatic ticket to any job he wants.

Do biglaw associates not realize that they are mostly interchangeable? And that it takes them 5+ years in biglaw to get the same level of responsibility that we give to first year honors attorneys at my agency?  No one is impressed by your 6 years of doc review and 3rd chairing some depositions.  Please have some humility, I am begging you. [/quote]

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