If you’re an avid believer of the saying “work is just like playing games”, you’d be glad to hear that the Miami legal sector currently offers a variety of career opportunities for aspiring legal professionals, thanks to both the specific needs of the local market and the development of emerging technologies as well as new communication channels.

In fact, with the rise in demand for innovative legal organizations to expand their presence on the fast-growing Southern Florida market, as well as the search for young legal talent looking to pursue their professional goals, the Miami legal community is encouraging and rewarding towards the following positions:

• Intellectual property practice;
• Corporate and commercial law;
• Litigation;
• Real estate practice.

In order to successfully land any of these opportunities, you’ll need to learn how to think of your job hunt as a strategy game. Like any other kind of game, you’ll require a certain level of psychological preparation and engagement, along with the acute ability to make decisions based on the information at your disposal, as well as the manipulation of diverse components and resources designed to grant you a competitive edge over your opponents. In other words, it takes a lot of data analysis and serious planning to effectively get to your goal.

Now, the question is: How can you get as much value from the exciting, complex and resourceful world of video games in order to secure the opportunities available in Miami’s legal sector? Here’s where things start to get interesting as we’ll be combining the mechanics of video games with the current legal market to build an effective strategy for the recruitment process. From the moment you identify which game your character will play through, to the point where you have to beat the final boss, games tend to challenge you to think outside of the box and produce unexpected tactics that’ll allow you to overcome the current obstacle. In the same vein, this is exactly what’s required for you to choose a legal path that suits your interests and harness your skills to beat the competition.

Fortunately, game developers have given you a variety of strategies to analyze – so why not take advantage of them? By choosing a specific in-game character, you’re essentially unlocking a character that has a set of special traits, skills and additional powers, all of which were strategically placed in the game to allow you to figure out what it’s really like to play as that specific character. With that in mind, it’s possible to choose multiple hidden strategies (character types) that’ll help you determine which of your personal skills best suits the legal job market.

A strategy game of this nature will reward you with experience points for your character – the more experience points you earn, the more missions you can unlock, and you can upgrade your character to move through more challenging levels in the game. While the input and mechanics of leveling up in games are easily sharable with real life situations, it’s important to stress the fact that the main point of this is that every single choice you make has a significant impact on your future, which is actually representative of the choices you’ll have to make when evaluating a job opportunity or even deciding where to send your resume.

All of the characters you’ll create from here on out will have unique characteristics and skills that can be used in the real world. This means that you should strive to build your skill set and continue to develop your abilities at a professional or academic level, if possible.