Author: Erin L. FullnerPublisher:
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Category : Law students
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"In order to provide effective career and professional development services for law students, law schools must build a better understanding of whether student engagement with school-provided career services bears a relationship to post-graduate employment success. The following research examined the relationship between law student engagement with career and professional development services and post-graduate employment outcomes through analysis of archival data of particular student job search behaviors, along with their employment outcomes, in the ten months following graduation from law school. The study specifically examined data provided by recent graduates (the classes of December 2015 through August 2016) of a mid-sized, diverse, private, religiously-affiliated law school in the Pacific Northwest. The data were collected by the law school's career office using an adaptation of a standard graduate employment survey provided to American law schools. Using SPSS, data were then analyzed using Fisher's Exact Test, with engagement with the career office as the presumptive independent variable, and employment status as the dependent variable. Though the calculations revealed overall higher rates of the highest standard of employment for graduates who used school-provided career services, the results were, for the most part, not statistically significant"--Abstract