More on CLE

This CLE was much more successful from a networking perspective; while my prediction that more attendees would be female, the people with whom I sat at lunch were far more friendly than at the previous CLE. One of my companions even works for a company in a regulated industry in which I'm interested. She's leaving a compliance position and she and her colleague were open to meeting to me in the future, gave me tips on applying and told me about specific openings. They say there's a lot of opportunity at their company right now.

While I'd have liked to have met people from a couple of other companies present, I was happy to get a firm lead on positions at an expanding company. It's near where I live and I've applied for positions before, but have never been able to find someone within the company, never mind someone in the specific department in which I'm interested.