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Resources to Make Informed Career Decisions

CDO offers individualized, comprehensive, and versatile support to YLS alumni at all stages of their careers.

Our support includes one-on-one counseling and strategizing, resume and cover letter review, and mock interviews. We also offer a large variety of internal and external resources for alumni at every stage of career, and at every juncture of potential job and career transition.

We encourage YLS alumni who have not yet done so to join the Courtyard, YLS’s online community – as well as to take a look at the alumni portions of our website, and to make use of our resources and support, which address all stages of career transition and exploration.

 

Career Management System

The Career Development Office uses the Career Management System (CMS), powered by Symplicity, to provide the resources to alumni. Net ID required.

Counseling

Alumni are welcome to conduct one-on-one mock interviews with CDO attorney-counselors at any stage of their careers, and to receive real-time personalized feedback on their performance.

Career Pathways

Information on careers in public interest, judicial clerkships, law firms, law teaching, and business for alumni.

Toolkit for Alumni Job Seekers

Guidance on employer research, networking, application materials, and interviewing. It also provides guidance on relocating, returning to work after a leave, handling a layoff, salary negotiation, temporary legal employment, and using a headhunter.

Career Guides & Advice

A range of career guides and resources for alumni across many areas of interest.

Alumni & Student Profiles

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Hillary Browning

Determination Has a Ripple Effect

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At heart, Yale Law School is about a distinctive culture of intellectual curiosity about the law. We think good ideas matter. Our faculty and, most of all, our students live this idea every day.”

John Fabian Witt

Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law; Class of 1999