One of the many benefits of being a student at Howard University School of Law is the wide array of career opportunities available during and after law school. Our graduates work for courts; large and small law firms; federal, state, and local governmental agencies; public interest organizations; and private and public corporations throughout the United States. Taking advantage of 21st century technology, the Office of Career Services offers a wide variety of services to students and graduates. The most exciting involve the use of cutting-edge technology to facilitate the job search process.

Programs and Services

• The OCS (Office of Career Services) helps the student develol into a total package for the legal profession. We evaluate interview skills, expose students to proper dress and decorum workshops and assit with resume presentation and intereview preparation.

• The Office of Career Services sponsors panels, seminars and workshops designed to assist students in assessing short and long-range career goals. Specific programs include Mock Interview Day, Dress for Success, Corporate Career Day, Recruiting Tips for Minority Students, Business Etiquette and Alternative Careers Seminars.

OCI (On Campus Interviewing)

• The Fall and Spring On-Campus Recruitment Programs feature well over 4500 interview opportunities from over 450 law firms, corporations, public interest agencies and federal government agencies each year.

• The law school has a Career Services Job Placement office and many Public Interest Recruitment Programs, held each year.

• Additionally, approximately 200 non-visiting employers per year request the Office of Career Services to facilitate resume collection services.

• Approximately 500 job vacancy announcements were entered into the eAttorney.com job bank during the year. Students and graduates were able to view, through any computer with Internet capabilities, part-time, full-time, academic, judicial clerkship and fellowship job listings. In addition, several thousand hard-copy job vacancy announcements were available to students and graduates in the office. Lastly, the Office of Career Services publishes an Alumni Job Bulletin that is sent via e-mail exclusively for Howard Law graduates.

• Students are also able to interview at various job fairs sponsored by bar associations and private entities throughout the nation, including the Boston Lawyers Group Job Fair for Students of Color, the Cook County Bar Association Job Fair for Minority Students, the Loyola/Chicago Patent Law Interview Program, the National Black Prosecutor’s Association Career Fair, and the Black Law Students Association Mid-Atlantic Job Fair.

• Through a reciprocity agreement, a Howard Law student or graduate may obtain permission to review job listings at other ABA-approved law schools. In turn, our school may grant permission to a student or graduate of another law school seeking employment in the Washington, D.C. area to review our job listings.

eAttorney.com

eAttorney.com streamlines the on-campus recruiting process and provides immediate access to job vacancy announcements. The eAttorney.com website includes on-line employer registration; on-line student bidding; optimum interview scheduling; resume sorting, management and distribution; and instant access to employer profiles and websites. Students and graduates can also easily access hundreds of jobs in the eAttorney.com Job Bank database.

Emplawyernet

The use of Emplawyernet provides immediate electronic entry to hiring attorneys. It contains over 6,000 up-to-date job listings with law firms, corporate legal departments, government agencies and other legal employers. Students and graduates can contact selected employers online and use the Personal Profile feature to indicate the area of practice he or she is looking for. Emplawyernet is an effective legal resource for employers to find the perfect applicant from Howard Law School, and vice-versa.

Vault.com

Vault.com contains an extensive library of company and industry profiles that are designed to give job seekers the inside edge on career management. Access to this website provides our students with many of the tools necessary in today’s aggressive job market. In addition to the online guidebooks on top private and public sector employers, Vault.com also features hundreds of general and alternative career books, employer profiles, law firm rankings, legal industry research, and thousands of career advice articles.