Second-Year Job Search Calendar
May
- Be sure to enter your summer address in Symplicity.
- Set up informational interviews and conduct research on out-of-town employers while you are away for the summer.
- Expand your job search network.
- Be sure to spend time looking over your summer mailing from our office sent to your summer address at the end of June. Be aware of all deadlines and notices. Update your personal calendar with information from our Calendar of Events.
- Update your resume with spring semester grades and activities. Submit an updated and revised resume draft for review to the Career Services Office between June 15 and July 15 by uploading it to Symplicity.
- Receive your critiqued resume from the Career Services Office. Make revisions to finalize your resume and upload to Symplicity.
- Complete a Summer Evaluation Form online about your summer work experience.
- Redefine your career goals and job skills. Develop a job search “To Do” list for the year.
- Formulate cover letters for various types of employers and employment settings.
- Research and identify employers of interest who are coming on campus to hire 2Ls for the summer. Explore local part-time employment opportunities. Research, identify, and contact other large law firms and corporations with large legal staffs who are not interviewing on campus.
- Research and identify employers in which you are interested who are participating in the Equal Justice Works Career Fair.
- If you haven't already started a job search network, identify relatives, friends, teachers, lawyers, business associates, Career Services staff, and other acquaintances you can contact to learn more about legal job opportunities.
- Get ready for the On Campus Interviewing process. On Campus Interviews begin August 21st.
- Consider applying to U.S. Justice Department (deadline mid-September).
- Continue researching and contacting employers. Expand your job search network.
- Watch bid deadlines for on-campus interviews and resume collections.
- Research and identify employers in which you are interested who are participating in the Equal Justice Works Career Fair, if you have not already done so.
- Apply to U.S. Justice Department by the mid-September deadline. Check deadlines for other federal government Honors Programs by reviewing the Government Honors & Internship Handbook (e-mail the CSO for password) and the NALP Federal Legal Employment Opportunities Guide.
- Research, identify and contact mid-size law firms.
- If you would like assistance with your interviewing skills, make an appointment in Career Services for a mock interview.
- Check your email and Symplicity for job opportunities often.
- Continue contacting mid-size law firms.
- Apply for government positions in "honors" category.
- Continue building your job search network by adding to your list of contacts and arrange "informational interviews" with them.
- Create weekly “To Do” lists to help you stay on course.
- Application deadline for summer internships with U.S. Army.
- Continue contacting smaller law firms, banks and corporations with small legal staffs, and legal publishers, associations, and public interest organizations.
- Arrange for "informational interviews" over Semester Break.
- Consider broadening your search to other geographic and/or practice areas.
- Update your resume after receipt of grades and class rank and upload to Symplicity.
- Revise your job search “To Do” list and plan to update it weekly.
- Research and identify employers of interest who are coming on-campus Spring semester. Continue to contact smaller law firms, banks and corporations with small legal staffs, legal publishers, associations, government agencies (federal and state), and public interest organizations about summer jobs.
- Follow-up with employers contacted previously whose hiring plans were "uncertain". Be sure you continue to record all contacts and stay organized.
- Research and identify employers of interest who are participating in the Government and Public Interest Job Fair.
- Government and Public Interest Job Fair - February 20, 2009.
- Research and identify employers of interest who are participating in the Spring Job Fair.
- Add to your job search network and continue to contact employers (see January recommendations.)
- Schedule "informational interviews" over Spring Break.
- Create weekly “To Do” lists to help you stay on course.
- Continue to contact smaller law firms, banks/corporations, legal publishers, associations, government agencies and public interest organizations.
- Submit application for summer fellowship grants for public interest organizations.
- Begin research on judicial clerkships to start after graduation. Some state court judges may want applications by the end of spring semester. Refer to Judicial Clerkship Job Search Calendar for additional information.
- Spring Job Fair
- Expand your job search network and contact newly added individuals.
- Continue to check Symplicity for jobs.
- Seek out faculty members, alumni, and others who can help with contacts and consider finding someone to serve as a mentor.
- "Knock on doors" and let employers, especially smaller firms and state government agencies, know you are available for part time and/or summer employment immediately.
- Contact new individuals in your job search network and follow-up with old ones.
- Continue to check Symplicity for jobs. Many employers contact us after the end of the school year.
- Continue research on judicial clerkships to start after graduation. Some state court judges may want applications this summer. Refer to Judicial Clerkship Job Search Calendar for additional information.
- Be sure you have entered your summer address on Symplicity before you leave for the summer.
- Begin 3L job search!