
by Yvonne Princess Shabangu
<p>Hey Fam! Welcome to the Employment Wednesdays Family. </p><p></p><p>You may be wondering how Employment Wednesdays came to life, before I give you the tea, let me take you to the Bible scripture "My People Perish because of the lack of knowledge" Hosea 4:6</p><p></p><p>Yes, you guessed it, I almost perished my career before it even started because of the lack of knowledge. When I enrolled for my LLB, I thought that all I needed to do was graduate in order to be a lawyer ( I didn't know what that meant, like many other people I reduced the profession to just being an attorney or advocacy). Little did I know that there was more I could do with my law degree. In my third year I got a rude awakening that if I wanted to be a "real lawyer" I needed to serve articles. To my shock a number of desirable law firms had already recruited candidate attorneys two years in advance. So this meant I would be at a disadvantage, in that I'm likely to be unemployed after graduating and should i find a