This week's Symplicity statistics: 30 new events and 92 new job postings have been listed on Symplicity. Stop by the office if you'd like help with setting up search agents to complement the job blasts to make sure you don't miss any! Here's a sampling:
- 17434: Summer Intern for Allstate (DUE SUNDAY at Midnight)
- 17463: Law Clerk for Large Family Law Firm
- 17400: Spring 2013 Extern for Homeland Security
- 17406: Market Regulation/Enforcement Intern for the CME
Attention full-time 1Ls: As a reminder, NALP Guidelines allow us to begin working with you in November. Accordingly, if you have already uploaded your resume, please look for our comments in early November.
Student Loan Debt Options: CCRAA: If you are wondering how you'll pay off your student loans, please join us on Wednesday, October 10, 2012 from 4:30-6:00 p.m. in 241 Lewis to hear from national student debt expert Heather Jarvis. Ms. Jarvis will explain loan payment options and loan forgiveness opportunities. Click Here for More Details
Young Attorney Panel: How to get experience now to land a job later. Join LCS and the SBA on Wednesday, October 10th at Noon in Room 803 for Lunch and a great panel discussion.
Reminder: 3Ls: The dates for the Presidential Management Fellows program application have been set for November 5-19. Information sessions will be held on October 9 and October 16. You are encouraged to make an appointment with Associate Director Alisa Rosales to create a federal style resume for this, amongst other, federal job openings. More details here.
As a reminder, the blog has moved to the College of Law's blog site. Latest Law Career Services Blog posts:
- CBA Committee Meetings for Week of October 8th
- Illinois Foreclosure Fellowships
- Education Fellowships: Education Pioneers & Broad
- CBA Volunteer Opportunities
- Upcoming Continuing Legal Education at the CBA
- PMF Participating Agencies
- 5 Resume Writing Strategies From a Career Coach's Secret Toolkit
- Student Loan Debt Options: CCRAA
- 2Ls: Upcoming Government Program Application Deadlines
- 3Ls/LLMs/JLCs: Upcoming Government Application DeadlinesNext Week's Calendar - check out Symplicity, the College of Law, and local bar association calendars for more events, training opportunities, and deadlines. Don't forget about next week's CBA Meetings. **PLEASE NOTE: All Deadlines mentioned on the Symplicity Calendar will now be noted in the 9:30 a.m. slot of the deadline date. These include application and RSVP deadlines.
Saturday, October 6
- 10:00 AM: CLAIM Jail Clinic and Family Law Training, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Tuesday, October 9
- 11:00 PM: High Stakes for Legal Services Clients: Concentrating Resources on Convincing States to Adopt the New Medicaid Eligibilty Category, Off-site
- 12:15 PM: Lawyers Working Against Gender-Based Violence, Off-site
- 5:00 PM: PMF Process and Panelists, 242 Lewis
Wednesday, October 10
- 10:30 AM: Meeting to Discuss Issues Impacting Persons with Vision Impairments or Blindness, Off-site
- 11:50 AM: Hot Topics in Child/Family Law: Shaken Baby Syndrome: Convicted Caregivers & the Inertia of Injustice, 903 Lewis
- 12:00 PM: Young Attorney Panel, 803 Lewis
- 4:30 PM: Student Loan Debt Options: College Cost Reduction & Access Act, 241 Lewis
Thursday, October 11
- 11:30 AM: Life Span's Domestic Violence Awareness Luncheon, Off-site
- 12:00 PM: Chicago Bar Association Legal Aid Committee Meeting, Off-site
- 5:00 PM: Idealist Grad Fair, Off-site
- 5:30 PM: A Taste for Chicago, Off-site
- 5:30 PM: Cocktails for CASA, Off-site
Friday, October 12
- 12:00 AM: 14th Annual National Law Students Workers' Rights Conference
Check out our tweets at @DePaulLawCareer! If you don't have a twitter account, you can also follow it via RSS Feed. Here's a sampling:
- How To Use Document Review Work to Enhance Your Resume
- Great Insight Into What is Networking and What is Not
- You Know Everything You Need to Know About Social Media... Or, Do You?
- Upgrading from a 3G to an iPhone 5 - Legal Productivity
- The Pursuit of Tackiness
Law Career Services Location & Details: 3rd Floor Student Services Suite (our entrance is directly above the main entrance to the 2nd Floor Student Lounge). To make an appointment or access your Symplicity account/reset your password, stop by or call the office at (312) 362-8385, option 1.
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- Monday-Thursday: 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.
- Friday: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Proper Document Upload: Please remember to carefully label your documents, especially résumés, as you upload them into Symplicity. (For example, "Joe Student August 2012 Resume). Résumés need to be uploaded for review as an unlocked Microsoft Word document, not in any other format, which includes .pdf.
