Career Services

Welcome, Alumni!

The Center for Career Services (CCS) is a vital connection for alumni exploring a change of positions or career fields and serves as a link between alumni and students. CCS services available to alumni include: access to Job Postings and Job Banks, Reciprocity Privileges, downloadable career development aids, the Alumni Job Hotline, resume review, individual counseling, and salary information. You also can help us by updating your Job Status, or becoming an Alumni Mentor.

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 CCS 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 services, alumni, intercollegiate job bank. Email the CCS at careers@law.ufl.edu for password information.

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

Reciprocity Requests
A grant of reciprocity privileges affords alumni access to the career services at almost any other law school in the country. Alumni must request reciprocity from CCS, who then will draft a reciprocity request on behalf of the alumni. Submit the Reciprocity Request Form or email the CCS at careers@law.ufl.edu to obtain reciprocity privileges.

Reciprocity Policy [24 Kb PDF]

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 Services maintains an extensive listing of career-related web sites and also provides downloadable career development aids for alumni to use in their employment search.

Job Status Update
The CCS 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 CCS, to let us know what your current employment status is. To report your current job status to the Levin College of Law Career Services Center, please use our on-line job status submission form.

Alumni Mentor Program
Administering the Mentor Program is an important function of the CCS. 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 Assistant Director, Jocelyn Ferguson at fergusonj@law.ufl.edu or at 352-273-0860. Please know that we greatly appreciate the support of our alumni.