Career Services Calendar
Career Services is open all summer to help you prepare applications for summer, fall, and beyond. Check your USD email account throughout the summer for critical updates on Fall Recruiting and other hiring and professional development opportunities. Email will be the only means by which Career Services will contact you this summer.
Summer Deadlines
- 2008 USD Fall Recruiting Program – 5 pm PT, Wednesday, August 13, 2008 – upload your application materials and apply to specific employers via Symplicity. On campus interviews held August 27 – October 3, 2008.
- USD in LA Interview Day *New this year!* – 5 pm PT, Friday, August 29, 2008 –upload your application materials and apply to specific employers via Symplicity. Interviews held in downtown Los Angeles on Friday, September 12, 2008, Hilton Checkers Hotel Los Angeles.
Quick Reference Summer Timeline for Maximizing the Fall Recruiting Season
- Throughout the summer: prepare and revise your application materials. Research employers that you are interested in applying to – both that are participating in USD Fall Recruiting and that you must apply to on your own. Read and familiarize yourself with the 2008 Fall Recruiting Guide.
- June/July: make an appointment with a Career Advisor to review your application materials and strategize about where and when to apply to employers both participating in and in addition to USD Fall Recruiting. Phone appointments are available.
- Mid-July: USD Fall Recruiting listings will be posted on Symplicity. Check Symplicity regularly as opportunities will be added on an ongoing basis.
- Early August: send applications to employers not participating in USD Fall Recruiting, including law firms, public interest agencies, and government positions.
- August 13: USD Fall Recruiting upload deadline
- August 29: “USD in LA” upload deadline
- Throughout the fall: collaborate with a Career Advisor regarding necessary adjustments to your fall job search, which may include a mock interview, formation of a follow up strategy, leveraging an interview or offer into more opportunities, etc.
Judicial Clerkships Deadlines
- June 30: Request recommendation letters from 3 professors.
- July 21: Provide Career Services with:
- Excel spreadsheet of your regular mail judges;
- list of your OSCAR judges; and
- list of your 3 recommenders.
- August 11: In order to have your faculty recommendation letters uploaded onto OSCAR, you must, by this date:
- designate on OSCAR your faculty recommenders;
- designate on OSCAR the judges to whom you are going to apply; and
- upload at least your resume, but preferably all your application materials.
- September 1: USD, including Career Services, is closed for Labor Day.
- September 2: Mail all your regular mail judicial clerkship applications on 9/2.
- September 3: OSCAR application materials must be uploaded, confirmed, and finalized by 9 a.m. PT. Career Services strongly recommends that you finalize your applications BEFORE LABOR DAY WEEKEND.
See procedures & deadlines for detailed program participation information. Please contact Career Services at lawcareers@sandiego.edu or (619) 260-4529 with questions concerning any of these programs.
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