Senior Director

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Senior Director
The candidate will be responsible to supervise and manage the Career Development Office team in the Assistant Dean’s absence. Student and Alumni Career Counseling: Provide individualized, tailored counseling to third-year law students and recent law graduates, and assist them in developing short- and long-term career goals. Maintain data on post-graduate employment goals of third-year law students and recent graduates. Use data to counsel students about job search strategies, professional development, and networking. Conduct regular outreach to counselees to promote career services and offer assistance. Develop and maintain career resources such as sample resumes and cover letters. Assist counselees with resume and cover letter writing. Meet individually with counselees to review resumes, cover letters, and other application materials. Assist counselees with using the Law College’s online job bank and recruitment system. Conduct mock interviews with counselees and provide constructive feedback. Develop, implement, and conduct career-development programming, including lunch events. Employment Outcomes. Manage, track, and analyze employment goals and employment status for the counseling population described above. Provide bi-weekly internal reports on employment metrics and progress toward achieving target goals for employment of our students and recent graduates. Meet with the Law College’s senior team to discuss progress and efforts toward meeting goals. Use data to develop and implement strategies to increase the percentage of third-year law students employed by graduation year-over-year. Manage process of reporting post-graduate employment outcomes required by the American Bar Association, respond to US News survey sections on employment outcomes, and report employment outcomes to NALP. Employer Relations and Outreach: Cultivate and develop opportunities for third-year law students and recent graduates for post-graduate employment. Use data described above to develop strategies for same. Work with Assistant Director of Employer Engagement to execute strategic plans. Assist with connecting students and recent graduates to regional and national employers. Assist with managing and running off-campus interviewing events, including traveling occasionally to out-of-state event sites. Work closely with the CDO’s Director of Externships on matching students with available externship opportunities. Work closely with the Director of Externships to cultivate externship opportunities that provide pathways to post graduate-employment. Assist with and attend CDO special events, which take place approximately three times per year and will require work outside of regular business hours. Keep current on regional and national trends in the legal job market. Perform other duties as assigned.

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