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November Employment Search Timeline

by | Nov 9, 2016 | Employment Search Resources

As we continue through the fall semester, don’t forget to make time to work on your summer 2017 or post-graduate employment search.

1LS:

  • Incorporate advisor feedback to finalize your resume and upload it to Symplicity.
  • Begin researching law firms as well as public interest, government, business, and other employers. Create a target employer list.
  • In Symplicity, review summer employment evaluations completed by students who previously interned at target employers.
  • Draft cover letters for various types of employers and employment settings and work with your advisor to refine them.
  • Become a student member of bar associations and legal interest groups in your geographic areas of interest.
  • Attend Maximizing Symplicity training to learn the features of the system (Nov. 14, 15, and 17).
  • Attend Cover Letter Workshop to learn to draft compelling cover letters for law-related positions (Nov. 16).
  • Attend Interview Skills Workshop: The Basics to learn tips, techniques and best practices for making a positive self-presentation during screening and call-back interviews (Nov. 18).
  • Conduct a videotaped mock interview in the CDO if you plan to interview over winter break.
  • Line up references from law school faculty and previous employers.

2LS:

  • If you are interested in a career in employment law, attend the Close Up: Employment Law program (Nov. 10).
  • Attend Pushing Forward: Tips for 2Ls for Landing a Summer Job (Nov. 11).
  • Are you planning to apply for a second summer fellowship for summer 2017? Attend the Summer Fellowship Second Request Information Session (Nov. 14)
  • Continue contacting smaller law firms, banks and corporations, and legal publishers, associations, and public interest organizations.
  • Update your employment search network tracking document.

3LS:

  • Attend Bridge to Practice Fellowship informational program. (Nov. 16)
  • Continue contacting smaller law firms, banks and corporations, and legal publishers, associations, and public interest organizations.
  • Update your employment search network tracking document.