Career Development

Welcome, Alumni!

The Center for Career Development (CCD) is a vital connection for alumni exploring a change of positions or in a career transition and serves as a link between alumni and students. CCD services available to alumni include: access to job postings and job banks, reciprocity privileges, downloadable career development aids, the Alumni Job Hotline, resume review, and salary information. Please note: Due to the increased need for Career Development by our students during this tough economic time, the CCD has compiled resources to help alumni in transition get reconnected with the career search process.

Job Postings
We update and maintain our on-line job bank of available positions through a program called Symplicity. Here, you can access job openings and search for career opportunities anytime and from anywhere. Entry-level and lateral positions are posted in Symplicity. You can use the same password provided to you as a student or you can email careers@law.ufl.edu if you do not have a Symplicity ID and password. After logging in, create your own profile and then click on the job tab to learn more about available positions.

Intercollegiate Job Banks
The CCD subscribes to an intercollegiate job bank that UF Law students and alumni can access. This job bank allow law schools from across the country to pool their alumni listings to provide a more comprehensive list of available opportunities. Currently, there are over sixty schools that participate with more adding daily. To access, visit the intercollegiate job bank hosted by BYU Law for listings searchable by the state of the participating law school, go to www.law2.byu.edu select Career Development, alumni, intercollegiate job bank. Email the CCD at careers@law.ufl.edu for password information.

Online Resources
The CCD subscribes to several other password protected on-line resources including:

UF Law Alumni Requesting Reciprocity Privileges From Another Law School
UF Law alumni may ask the UF Law Center for Career Development to request reciprocity privileges from another law school that will enable the alumni to gain access to the host school’s job listings.

  • Reciprocity cannot be requested or granted between August 1 and November 15 of each year. The majority of law schools, including UF Law, restrict reciprocity services during this busy on-campus interviewing season.
  • UF Law participates in the Intercollegiate Job Bank (IJB) hosted by Brigham Young University School of Law upon which over eighty different law schools across the nation share alumni postings. Please email careers@law.ufl.edu for the login and password for the IJB to determine whether your schools of interest participate in the IJB. If that school participates, we will be unable to request reciprocity on your behalf.
  • Once you determine that the host law school does not participate in the IJB, send an email to careers@law.ufl.edu with your name, email, date of graduation and the law school(s) in order of preference for which you are seeking reciprocity. The CCD will then send a request to the school on your behalf, providing you with a copy of the request and the school's response.
  • Reciprocity privileges can only be extended to one law school at a time.
  • Be aware that some schools prohibit us from requesting reciprocity for you at more than one law school in any one city and some grant reciprocity requests only on a one-for-one basis.
  • If you have any questions, please contact our Reciprocity Coordinator for more information at: careers@law.ufl.edu.

Alumni From Another Law School Seeking Reciprocity at UF Law
Reciprocity Policy [31 KBPDF]

Alumni Job Listserv
Provides more immediate job opportunities for entry-level attorneys as well as networking events and receptions of particular interest to alums seeking employment opportunities. To subscribe, go to the listserve homepage at https://lists.law.ufl.edu/mailman/listinfo/alumni-job or UF College of Law alumni can send a blank email to alumni-job-subscribe@lists.law.ufl.edu. You will receive a confirmation email within 24 hours. To unsubscribe from the Alumni Job Hotline, send a blank email to alumni-job-unsubscribe@lists.law.ufl.edu.

Employment Links and Resources
Career Development maintains an extensive collection of career-related legal Web sites to assist you in your employment search. (Internships, Fellowships, Scholarships and Honor’s Programs might be within other interest areas as well.)

Job Status Update
The CCD strives to maintain accurate employment statistics for UF Law graduates. This is important not only for required reporting to the American Bar Association and other agencies, but also for students to examine trends in the labor market, and because it maintains and enhances the reputability of your degree. For these reasons, we ask that all alumni, but particularly recent graduates, keep in touch with the CCD, to let us know what your current employment status is. To report your current job status to the Levin College of Law Career Development Center, please use our on-line job status submission form.

Alumni Mentor Program
Administering the Mentor Program is an important function of the CCD. This program matches up willing alumni with current students in an information exchange capacity. Students then have the opportunity to communicate with a UF grad who is working in a field that they may wish to enter or in a geographic area of interest. To become involved as a UF Alumni Mentor and make a difference by helping UF Law students, please complete the Alumni Mentor Form and fax it to (352) 392-0499. For additional information on the program, please contact Director, Rob Birrenkott at rmbjr@ufl.edu or at 352-273-0860. Please know that we greatly appreciate the support of our alumni.

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