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More bad news for ‘09 law grads still looking for work — the Strib, which itself announced today that it was shedding another 100 jobs, reports that there will be fierce competition for a smaller-than-usual pool of seasonal jobs as belt-tightening continues through the holidays. These are the types of jobs that in the past might have helped a recent grad stay afloat as he/she searched for post-graduation employment.
Any kind of an advanced degree — particularly a law degree — can be more of a hindrance than a help in getting low-level retail and other types of positions that job seekers sometimes take to pay the bills while they look for employment in their field. Employers assume — and probably rightfully so — that the job candidate will only take the position until something comes along in his or her field. With seasonal jobs, a JD or other advance degree has less of a “stigma” on the application because the employer does not expect the employee to stay beyond the short term. The reduction in those kind of holiday jobs could not have come at a worse time for unemployed JDs whose funds to pay their living expenses during their job search may be becoming depleted. (In better years, law grads without jobs might find temp work doing something at least law-related, such as document review. However, there are many more applicants than jobs for that kind of work right now.)
The whole thing does bring up an interesting point. Law grads are at a real disadvantage in getting subsistence jobs when they need them to tide them over during a job search. The idea of hiring a new lawyer to stock shelves or ring up purchases is too much for potential employers to fathom, even though law grads have to eat and pay rent like everybody else does.
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This is what happens when law school focuses on theory rather than practice. How are deans adjusting their curriculum for future graduates? Or are they just expecting the situation will fix itself?
Why care, anyways, when enrollment and applications is up, I suppose. It’s merely the graduate’s problem.
(Irony of grammatical errors unintentional but acknowledged.)
Still waiting for the movement against the ABA for keeping Hamline open.
Wm ‘10
Wow anonymous. WM jumps from 4th tier to 3rd tier this year and all of a sudden it gives you the cajones to rail on HU? WM isn’t anything to hold your hat on my friend. You’re still a TTT with easier admission standards than the other 3 MN law schools.
Heh, a Mitchell vs. Hamline argument is like 2 contestants in the special Olympics arguing about which one is smarter.