Bidding is now open for the annual Wisconsin Public Interest Job
Fair, which will be held on two consecutive Saturdays in February.
On Saturday, February 21, Madison area employers will interview at
UW Law School, and on Saturday, February 28, Milwaukee area
employers will interview at Marquette Law School. Bidding will
close on Sunday, February 1 at 12:00 CST (midnight).
Bidding—The Job Fair will be treated as an OCI (on-campus
interviewing) session in Symplicity. Therefore, if you want to
participate, your first step is to review the list of participating
employers (see below) and decide with which of them you are
interested in interviewing. You may then log on to Symplicity and
review the information about the participating employers, including
application materials requested. To do so, click on "OCI" in the
top row of choices, which will take you to a screen that has a
pull-down menu (under Search Filter: Sessions) enabling you to
choose an OCI "session." Select the session entitled "2009
Wisconsin Public Interest Job Fair." When you do so, the list of
registered employers interviewing students in your class year will
display. If you click on the "Review" button to the left of an
employer's name, you'll be taken to a screen giving you additional
information about that employer (e.g., the employer's website, a
list of the application materials that the employer wants students
to provide, the name(s) of the interviewer(s), etc.).
Most of the employers participating in the Job Fair are asking for
a resume and a cover letter; some also have requested a writing
sample, transcript and list of references. You will need to create
the documents that the employers you want to interview with have
requested, and upload them into Symplicity, using
the "Documents" tab on the top row of choices. When you go to the
"Documents" section, you can upload any documents that you haven't
already uploaded by clicking "Add New," and identifying the
documents from your hard drive. To upload a transcript, you will
need to go to My UW and copy your
grade report into a Word document and upload that (obviously 1Ls
will only be able to upload those grades that have been submitted
by Sunday, February 1 (the bidding deadline); please mention in
your cover letter that you will provide an updated transcript/grade
report, if available, at your interview). After you have uploaded
and labeled all necessary documents, go back to "OCI," select
"Review" or "Apply" next to the employer's name, choose the
appropriate cover letter, etc., and then click "Apply." Please
remember that bidding on employers participating in the Job Fair
will close at 12:00 a.m. (midnight) CST on Sunday, February 1.
Although there is no advantage to bidding and submitting your
documents early, please also do not wait until the last minute to
bid. To date, participating employers include the following:
In Madison on February 21:
Legal Aid Society of
Milwaukee
Midwest Environmental
Advocates (interviewing for Spring/Fall 2010 clinical
externship positions only)
Immigrant Project of the Wisconsin
Coalition Against Domestic Violence
Wisconsin Coalition Against Domestic
Violence
Wisconsin Coalition Against Sexual
Assault
Dane County Corporation
Counsel (application collection only)
Office of
the City Attorney, Madison
Clean Wisconsin
Coalition of Wisconsin Aging
Groups
Community Justice,
Inc.
ABC for Health
In Milwaukee on February 28:
ACLU of Wisconsin Foundation
Kids
Matter, Inc.
Disability Rights Wisconsin
Door County (WI) Corporation
Counsel
Catholic Charities of
the Archdiocese of Milwaukee
Benedict Center
Milwaukee Habitat for
Humanity
Other employers may be added at a later date, so please check the
Symplicity site often!
A binder containing information about individual employers is
available for your review on the table outside Kristin Davis'
office in Career Services. Please note that many of the
participating employers cannot pay a stipend for the summer;
regardless, an internship with most of these public interest
employers makes you eligible to apply for one of the Law School's
Summer Public Service Fellowships (details on the SPSFs will be
forthcoming). If you have any questions, please contact Kristin Davis at 262-6444.
Submitted by Jane Heymann, Assistant Dean for Career Services on January 20, 2009 11:18 am
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