Private Sector Career Counselor

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Private Sector Career Counselor (4517U) #18532

Duties: Utilize contacts in the legal community and his/her current and detailed knowledge of the ever-evolving legal job market to provide individually tailored, client-driven career counseling to our students. Plan, develop, and implement cutting-edge career exploration and job-search skills programs, networking events, and other resources for our students.Leverage contacts and cultivate new working relationships with legal employers to ensure our students have the best available access to networking and job opportunities in the small and medium-sized firm market as soon as they present themselves. Researches, and analyzes the current state of the private sector legal services and legal job markets and forecasts emerging trends in those markets. Identifies existing and up-and-coming career and job options, assesses (on a continuing basis) their short-and long-term feasibility for our alumni attorneys, and explores alternatives to traditional legal practice. Research and periodically assess the evolving career development needs of our students interested in private sector work. Based on this on-going research, analysis, assessment and trend-spotting, designs and develops, and implements an array of workshops and programs, services, and resources (including online guides and webcasts) to meet the needs of employers with whom the CDO is developing/maintaining relationships as well as the career needs of our students interested in pursuing a career in the private sector. Manages improvements, revisions, changes, and adjustments to the existing array of career consulting services, programs, and resources AND devises, develops and implements entirely new services, programs and resources. Liaises with various other Law School departments and individuals to understand their needs and goals and explore and develop mutually beneficial programs, resources, and services. Maintains and enhances the Law School’s existing professional network of potential employers, other law school legal career professionals, and others in the legal field who may be in a position to provide information and assistance to our students interested in pursuing private sector work. Maintains and enhances his/her own professional network and leverages it on behalf of students and alumni. Establishes new positive working relationships with law firm recruiters, in-house legal departments, corporations, (and others who may be of assistance to our private sector oriented students (and who may be of assistance in in fundraising and in enhancing the campus's relationship with outside organizations). Develops and oversees presentation and delivery of broad and complex career-focused programs and events workshops, and resources. Manages career services staff on specific administrative tasks they undertake in support of private sector programming (e.g., room reservations, catering arrangements, drafting and posting event announcements, etc.). Determines, based on his/her knowledge of technical systems, the most innovative and effective media for delivering content – online, print, blogs, social networking website posts, twitter, live webcasting. - Provides one-on-one, individually tailored and client-driven career consulting services to students interested in pursuing private sector careers (a particularly complex area that require specialized expertise). Assists students in conducting their own self-assessments Provides students not only with general advice based on his/her expert knowledge of the private sector legal market but specific job leads and networking contacts developed through continuing cultivation and expansion of the Law School’s -- and the Counselor’s -- professional network. Participates in panel discussions and presentations and researches and writes articles relating to the private sector legal job market and the provision of private sector career services through local and national recruitment associations, like the Bay Area Legal Recruiters Association and the National Association for Law Placement, and other legal organizations, like the American Association of Law Schools and the American Bar Association, and even through the local and national press as the opportunities arise.

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