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.

USD Law Career Services guides are available on Symplicity. To access the guides, log onto Symplicity, click on “Documents & Guides,” and then click the “Career Services Guides” sub-tab. If you are not registered on Symplicity, click here for registration instructions. Guides that can be found in Symplicity include:

Career Development & the Job Search

• Resumes for Law Careers
• LLMC. 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
• San Diego’s Small and Mid-sized Firms
• Judicial Clerkship Overview Application Procedures