Recruitment Events for Students

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The CDO markets its students to employers through two recruitment programs, Fall and Spring. Through our recruitment programs, we encourage employers to visit our campus and interview our students on site. Widener is unique in that it offers employers the opportunity to interview students from both campuses at one location. At the employer's choice, the location may be either campus or both. Our students benefit from the fact that our campuses work in tandem and that two Career Development Offices are working on their behalf.

For those employers that are unable to visit on campus, our office offers an off campus-procedure. We collect the resumes of interested students and forward them to the employers. After reviewing the materials and selecting candidates to interview, these employers invite our students to interview in their offices.

The Fall Recruitment Program
Each fall, we invite approximately 1500 employers to come on campus and interview our students for summer and permanent positions. These employers are generally large and expect to hire significant numbers of law students and attorneys during the coming year. Often these employers are nationally known law firms or large government agencies.

Some judges like to search for clerks through this program and large public interest organizations also participate. The program is concentrated and competitive. Most of the interviewing takes place during the month of September and participating employers usually make their hiring decisions by Thanksgiving.

The Spring Recruitment Program
Each spring we invite approximately 1300 employers to our on campus program. These employers are a more diverse group than those we invite in the fall. Generally they are smaller and prefer to recruit closer in time to when they actually need an attorney or law clerk to begin working. The spring program is less concentrated than the fall. Employers' deadline dates are spread out through the entire semester. Due to the diversity of the participants, hiring decisions may be made at any time.