Career Services: Students

Career Services has developed a comprehensive series of career guides covering resume and cover letter preparation, networking, interviewing, salary negotiation, and many more topics listed below.

Starting October 19, 2009, USD Law students and alumni will have access to all Career Services guides exclusively via USD’s password-protected Symplicity system. If you are an enrolled law student or graduate, to access the guides, log onto Symplicity, click on “Documents,” and then click on “Career Services Guides.” If you are not registered on Symplicity, click here. Below are the guides that can be found in Symplicity.

Career Development & the Job Search

• Resumes for Law Careers
• LL.M.C. Resume Guide
• Job Search Correspondence
• Interview Preparation and Questions
• References
• Writing Samples
• Networking Guide
• Professional Organizations & Specialty Bars
• Legal Professionalism
• Legal Recruiter
• Intellectual Property Law Career Resources
• First-year Introduction to Law Career Development
• Advance Your Job Search Over Winter Break

Judicial Clerkships

• Judicial Clerkship Overview Application Procedures