INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Find a qualified coach or trainer who can work with you one-on-one to help you with drills and technique. Talk with the coaching staff at your school, community center or at a volleyball camp in your area to find a person who is willing to take you on. Alternately, find a player with more years of experience than you. This person may be willing to mentor you and help you improve your skills. Volleyball teams are organized through schools, community centers and YMCA centers. Join a team or league to get regular practice and to participate in scrimmages or matches. Ask your coach or other teammates about summer camps or clinics that they might recommend. These range from one day clinics to week-long camps. Search online for a camp or clinic in your area. Watch how professionals play the game. Pay attention to their strategies, strengths, weaknesses, and interactions with other players.

SUMMARY: Work with a coach or trainer. Join a team. Attend summer camps or clinics. Watch volleyball matches in person and on TV.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: If you've made your own jerky, let it cool for several hours so it's completely dry. If you see grease on the jerky, blot it with paper towels. Removing the moisture and fat helps the jerky last longer when you store it. If you're storing store-bought jerky, you can skip directly to storing the jerky at room temperature or chilling it. You can purchase food-grade oxygen absorbers from some grocery stores or online. Place 1 or 2 of them in each bag or container of jerky to extend the shelf life of the jerky. Then, press the air out of the bag and seal it or put the lid on your storage container. The oxygen absorber will absorb the oxygen, which prevents bacteria from growing on the jerky. Oxygen absorbers can remove a lot of oxygen from the bag, but a vacuum sealing machine removes almost all of it. Put the jerky into the bags that came with your machine and lock them into the machine. Turn it on so the machine sucks out all of the oxygen and shrinks the bag around the jerky. Consider vacuum-sealing bags with different amounts of jerky so you can grab some bags for snacks and keep others for long-term storage.

SUMMARY: Dry the jerky at room temperature. Add oxygen absorbers to your bag or jar to extend the jerky’s shelf life. Vacuum seal the package for the most long-lasting jerky.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Usually bread is baked at around 350 to 500 °F (177 to 260 °C). Look at the recipe you’re using to make the bread for specific heating instructions. You want the entire towel to be wet, but not soaked. If a lot of water is dripping from the towel, wring it out over a sink. All of the dough should be covered with the towel. Stretch the towel so the edges are hanging off the side of the bowl or tray you’re raising the dough in. The moisture from the damp towel will help the dough rise faster. Use two overlapping damp towels if you have a lot of dough to cover. Some cleared off counter space right next to the oven will work. The heat coming from the oven will speed up the rising process. Check the dough after 30 minutes to see if it’s finished rising. If it hasn’t doubled in size, re-cover the dough with the damp towel and check back again in 10 to 15 minutes.

SUMMARY: Preheat your oven to the temperature you’ll be baking the bread at. Rinse a kitchen towel under some warm water until it’s damp. Lay the damp towel over the dough. Place the covered dough near, but not on, the preheated oven. Let the dough rise until it’s doubled in size.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: If you want to be a successful legal consultant, you will need to build your resume with meaningful professional experiences. You should start doing this as early as possible. While it may be difficult to work while you are in school, particularly law school, you should at the very least try to work during your summers. In law school, there are often opportunities to participate in summer internships or clinics, which usually provide opportunities to do real world legal work while still being in school. For example, in civil practice clinics, you may get an opportunity to help low income clients with their housing disputes and public benefits problems. Once you are licensed to practice law, you should look for entry level legal experience in a field you are passionate about. As of 2012, most employers looking to hire legal consultants were looking for applicants to have a minimum of three years of general legal experience.  If you know what type of legal consultant you would like to be (i.e., corporate, medical, real estate), try to get a legal job in that specific field.  Entry level legal jobs are usually associate positions with law firms, law clerk positions with organizations, or law clerk positions with various courts around the United States. Once you have some general legal experience under your belt, you may want to look into gaining some entry level consulting experience. A lot of employers hiring legal consultants look for their applicants to have between two and six years of experience in their specific legal consulting field. This step is separate from starting your consulting career because you will need to gain entry level experience prior to becoming a leading legal consultant with an agency or on your own.  In order to gain this consulting experience, start networking early and reach out to community members working in the legal consulting field. Once you get a consulting interview, be prepared for a rigorous process. Consulting interviews often take place in multiple parts with the first couple of interviews being your general personality interviews. However, once you make it past the first couple of rounds you may find yourself taking part in a group interview where you may be asked to solve a problem with other candidates. In this interview, employers are often looking to see how you work as part of a team and how you handle pressure. Finally, the employer may ask you back for one more interview, often the most intimidating, where they may ask you to solve some sort of consulting problem. In this interview they are looking to see how you can handle yourself under pressure.  Be confident going into these interviews. If you have followed the path laid out in this article you will be well prepared for this process.

SUMMARY:
Work during the summers between your school years. Build legal experience. Gain entry level consulting experience.