ABOUT FALL RECRUITING
The Fall Recruiting Program is a
competitive program in which employers preselect and interview students for
summer 2014 positions. Summer law clerk positions with participating employers
may offer a wide-variety of professional experiences including researching and
drafting memoranda of law, attending depositions, meetings, hearings, and
trials, participating in social outings and activities, and much more. Such
summer positions may lead to long-term, post-graduate employment.
Though the Fall Recruiting Program
has existed for many years, it has always been an employer-driven, selective
hiring program. (When surveyed after graduation, less than 10 percent reported fall
or spring recruiting as the method used to obtain post-graduate employment.) Fall
Recruiting continues to evolve as major law firms and government agencies
dramatically limit the number schools visited and reduce the number of summer
and permanent hires. Despite this reduced status for fall recruiting, many
large law firms continue to hire in the fall on an extremely selective basis
for summer and post-graduate positions.
Qualified students with an
interest in participating employers are strongly encouraged to participate in
the Fall Recruiting Program.
RECRUITING
SESSIONS
Capital University Law School’s
Fall Recruiting Program offers employers three interview sessions:
·
Early Interview Week (August 12 – August 16)
o
Application
Deadline: July 19, 2013, by 6:00 PM
o
NOTE:
this interview week occurs before the fall semester begins.
·
September Interviews (September 4 – September 30)
o
Application
Deadline: August 14, 2013, by 6:00 PM
·
October Interviews (October 1 – October 31)
o Application Deadline: September
6, 2013, by 6:00 PM
There are
no exceptions made to application deadlines.
ELIGIBILITY
To participate in fall recruiting, you must be
a 2D, 3E, 3D, or 4E student (classes of 2014 and 2015). If you started law
school as a part-time student (day or evening division) and switched to the
full-time program after the first-year, you may participate in fall recruiting.
If you do not fall into either category, please see Director Beem.
SYMPLICITY
The Office of Professional Development
uses Symplicity to
manage the fall recruiting program. Each employer will register and indicate
any specific hiring criteria including class year, class rank or Grade Point
Average (GPA), and materials to be submitted. All materials requested by
participating employers will be submitted online via Symplicity (with the
occasional exception for undergraduate transcripts).
Beginning on Monday, June 3, 2013, you may log
in to your Symplicity account and click on the “OCI” tab located in the top
menu to see the employers participating in our fall recruiting program. Additional
employers will be scheduling throughout the months of June and July. You should check Symplicity at least once a week for
updates.
Note that when you log in to
Symplicity you will only see employers seeking your class year. In addition the
default session will be the October Interview Session. Be sure to change the
session using the “Session” drop down menu in order to see employers seeking
your class year. If you do not see any participating employers in a session,
then no participating employer is currently seeking your class year.
Please check Symplicity to make
sure your class year is correct. Go to Profile > Academic > Year in
School. If it is incorrect, please change and notify Director Beem.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Be sure to see Director Beem's email dated Thursday, May 30, 2013, and accompanying PDF.
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