The job market has certainly improved since the end of the Great Recession, but unfortunately, that hasn’t been the case for all students. At some law schools, students face great difficulties when trying to find employment after graduation. That’s why these students tend to rely upon the people who work in their career services offices for assistance.
Sometimes, career services offices are incredibly helpful. Other times, they’re not very helpful at all. We recently received this from Barry Law School. It’s what we believe is an attempt to market an unemployed third-year student to employers. The title of the email was “Recipe for Success!” (click to enlarge):
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According to a source, this… thing… was sent to anyone who ever listed a job with the law school. Here’s some additional commentary from one of its recipients:
This is one Career Services Office’s interesting but totally inappropriate idea of marketing their law students — take a full body photo of a law student posed on a lawn near a palm tree and include a recipe. Then spam anyone who has ever listed a job with your office….
I can’t decide what I dislike more, the full body photo (as opposed to a more professional head shot) or the recipe (raisin cookies?!?!).
Maybe this is why only 34.5 percent of the class of 2015 at Barry Law was employed in full-time, long-term jobs where bar passage was required.
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