Described beneath are more than detailed instructions on what you demand to do, and when, concerning OCI.

Setting upwardly Symplicity

Obtain your symplicity username and countersign

If yous have forgotten your password, log in to Symplicity and click on the "Forgot My Password" tab on the Symplicity home page, and your password will be reset and emailed to you.  If that doesn't work, contact the Office of Career & Professional Development (OCPD), and we volition manually reset your password. (Remember: the University of Wisconsin Police Schoolhouse'due south Symplicity site is different from the Symplicity sites that y'all may be using to participate in any of the Off-Campus Recruitment Programs.)

Review your personal "Profile" information

In the "Academic Data" department of the Profile, make sure your "Year in Schoolhouse" and anticipated "Graduation Date" are correct.

Update your resume

Adding a clarification of what you did during the summertime of 2016, any honors and awards you may have received, your current GPA and class standing (if you choose -- this information is optional), and any significant law school activities (law periodical, moot court, SBA, other student organizations, etc.) that you have participated in or plan to participate in during the coming year.  Rising 2Ls may not be able to finalize their resumes until sometime in late July, because the results of law journal write-on competitions are generally non appear until that fourth dimension.  However, yous tin can update all other parts of your resume, and then simply drop in current information almost law journals as before long as y'all receive information technology.  Students ever know the outcome of law periodical write-on competitions at least a day or 2 prior to the Phase Ane bidding deadline.  Look at the sample resumes bachelor in the OCPD and on our website for formatting ideas and suggestions near how to describe detail activities.

Have your resume reviewed by someone in the OCPD

And by anyone else whose opinion you value.  If you wish to have your resume reviewed by OCPD, please submit your resume via email.

Upload your final, error-gratis resumes onto Symplicity

Go to the "Documents" tab, click on "Add New," give the document a name, choose the certificate type, and then browse your calculator's hard drive until the proper noun of the resume appears in the window, so click on "Submit."   After you've uploaded the resumes, you can view them either as a Give-and-take document or a PDF file.

Information technology is critical that yous upload your resumes. If you don't do then, the system volition not allow you to bid for interviews. Y'all may upload more 1 resume.  You lot may have a resume specifically tailored to certain positions.  Make certain yous requite your resumes descriptive names (e.thousand. taxation-based resume, IP resume) so you are able to easily upload your desired resume for the relevant bid.

Research and Preparation

Research employers who will be coming to interview

To do this, click on the "OCI" tab, and and then cull the Phase yous are interested in seeing from the drop-downward options.  Once you choose a Stage, the listing of registered employers for that Stage volition  display. Click on the "Review" push button to the left of an employer'due south name to view additional data near that employer (e.g., the employer's website, a list of the awarding materials that the employer wants students to provide, the proper name(s) of the interviewer(s), etc.).  You volition exist shown only the names of employers who are coming here to interview students in your class yr.  Pay attention to information near which offices the employer is interviewing for (this may be different than the headquarters city listed backside the employer name!), what its hiring criteria are, etc. Begin this enquiry early in the summer! You should only bid on employers with which you would accept an interview.  Do not bid at random and do your enquiry before yous bid. This avoids wasting bids and taking spots from others who may really wish to interview with a particular employer.

Upload your cover letters and other required documents

Most of the participating employers are asking for a resume; some likewise will want to see a embrace letter, an unofficial transcript, and/or a listing of references.  You will need to create the documents that the employers you desire to interview with have requested, and upload them into Symplicity in the "Documents" section.  (Employers may request a writing sample as part of the bidding process, and many employers only want you to bring a writing sample with you to your interview, so be sure to have copies bachelor.)

A word virtually transcripts: Most employers volition crave submission of an unofficial transcript. These unofficial transcripts will be generated by the University's registrar'south function and uploaded into your accounts prior to the bid borderline. OCPD volition update you on the progress of this effort throughout the summer.

If you have not signed your transcript release course which allows the transcript to be uploaded to Symplicity, please do so through our transcript page.

Information about your course standing is on the law school'south website at https://constabulary.wisc.edu/career/new_grading_system.html.

Enter your bids

Through Symplicity by the bidding deadline for each Stage. Y'all must complete your bidding by midnight, Eastern Daylight time (i.e., eleven p.yard. Central Daylight time), on each bidding deadline.

To bid: Click the "Review" button to the left of the name of any employer you want to bid.  Once on the employer's screen, you lot will be able to select, from a pull-downward card, the appropriate version of all required documents (resume, cover letter, etc.) needed for the bid.  If necessary, and if the firm is recruiting for multiple locations, you lot tin also blazon in your "preferred location".  In one case you've uploaded all required documents, click on the "Apply" button. (Note:  You will not be allowed to apply unless you have all required documents for the employer (a) uploaded into your Documents section and (b) attached to the application.)

You may edit your documents and change your bids as frequently as yous'd like, upwardly until bidding closes for that Phase.  Still, if you change whatever of your documents in the documents section of Symplicity, make sure you re-upload the edited documents to your bid or bids.  The documents are not inverse automatically in the bid section of Symplicity. In that location is no advantage to bidding early, other than that you can turn your attending to other things.  Bidding early does non increase your chances of obtaining interviews.  Further, no documents are submitted to the employers until after the bidding borderline passes.

Multi-Office Employers

Almost Fall OCI employers reserve one interview room, send a few interviewers, to talk to students almost all of that employer's offices. For example, if y'all obtain an interview with Jones 24-hour interval, yous may talk to the Jones Day interviewer about the firm's offices in Chicago, Cleveland, New York, Washington D.C., etc.  To the extent you are interested in a particular geographic expanse, y'all should highlight that interest in your cover letter and/or in the "geographic preference" option on the Bid screen.  Information technology is important you actually specify your preference.  It is much easier for the employer to identify yous if you lot have expressed excitement and desire to go to a particular location.

Sign upward for Interviews

Employers will publish their selections for interviews no later than 1 week after each bidding deadline.  To encounter if you accept been selected for an interview, log on to Symplicity, click on "OCI," and and so choose the appropriate Phase from the "Sessions" drop-downward menu.  A list of the employers y'all bid on will announced, and in the cavalcade headed "Invitations," you'll run across either "invited," "alternate," "not invited" or "pending."

  • If you've been "invited," y'all have been selected for an interview, and yous should click on the "Have Preselect" push, which will accept yous to that employer's interview schedule.  Select an interview fourth dimension and click on "Submit."   If selected students do non sign up for an interview, students listed equally "alternates" by that employer will be notified by email that they can sign up for interviews on the last day of interview sign-ups.

  • If you are preselected but practice not want to accept an interview opportunity, delight click on the "Decline" button then that your interview spot can be offered to another student.

  • If an employer is listed on the Symplicity dwelling house folio as having made its pre-selections, and your status with that employer is still listed as "pending," it means yous take non been selected for an interview by that employer. If your status is listed equally "not selected" after the pick deadline, it means that yous were not selected or that the employer failed to make their selections by the borderline, so make certain to cheque dorsum.

Be sure to exit as much fourth dimension as possible between interviews that you schedule for the aforementioned mean solar day – at to the lowest degree twenty minutes is recommended. If you schedule yourself for an interview that you later realize is besides close to some other interview, or for some other reason is an unworkable time, try to alter it in Symplicity.  If the time period for doing then has passed, inquire someone in OCPD to help you gear up the problem.

Show upward for your interviews!

Well-nigh of the interviews will terminal 20 minutes, although a few employers choose to conduct 30 minute or 45 minute interviews. Go along in mind that you will demand to be flexible, considering many interviewers fall behind schedule about immediately. Therefore, your 10:00 a.m. interview may not even Kickoff until x:15 or 10:xx. For that reason, when you are signing yourself upward for interviews, information technology is important to try to leave at to the lowest degree 20 minutes between the end of i interview and the outset of the side by side.  Many of you will accept the opportunity to interview several times per day, particularly during Phases One and 2.  If yous see an impending disharmonize every bit employers run late, talk to an OCPD staff member immediately.

Fall OCI interviews are conducted at the Law School, using the interview rooms in OCPD as well as various vacant faculty offices and conference rooms throughout the Law School and the Law Library. We oft are unable to assign particular employers to specific interview rooms until the day of the interview, so you will need to cheque Symplicity or at the OCPD front desk on the morning of your interview to determine the location of your interview.

You MUST Show Upwardly FOR EVERY INTERVIEW YOU SCHEDULE.

Null is more unfair to your fellow law students, or more annoying to employers, or more than likely to convince an employer to stop interviewing at this Police School, than "no shows." If you bid for and obtain an interview opportunity just don't want it, DO NOT SCHEDULE YOURSELF FOR AN INTERVIEW.  You lot should take already made decisions regarding potential employers during the bid process, but if something comes upward that changes your mind, do not interview. That way, an alternate, who does want the interview, will be able to take it.

If an emergency arises that will foreclose you from showing up for an interview, tell the OCPD As Before long Equally Y'all POSSIBLY CAN, and then that we can contact someone from the waiting list, and your interview slot won't become to waste product.

If you lot accept a pre-select and schedule an interview, you MUST Attend THAT INTERVIEW UNLESS Yous Accept A JOB Offer PRIOR TO THE INTERVIEW OR YOU HAVE AN EMERGENCY.

Bring with you, to each screening interview, a copy of all the documents you submitted including your résumé and transcript. At times, the interviewer may not have your documents and you should exist able to provide them with copies.  Additionally, bring copies of your writing sample.

Promptly Respond to Callback Invitations

Autumn OCI interviews are screening interviews. If you take a successful screening interview, y'all volition not receive a job offering, but a "call back" interview. When you receive a "recall," it ways the employer wants to adjust for y'all to visit its offices (usually at the employer'southward expense) for further interviews.  If your priorities have changed, and yous no longer wish to pursue employment with an organization which has extended a callback invitation, promptly respond to their invitation and politely decline.

NALP Principles

Delight be sure to familiarize yourself with the "Principles for Candidates" that are part of the NALP "Principles and Standards for Law Placement and Recruitment Activities", which all law students are expected to abide by. Those Principles tin be constitute at the front end of each re-create of the NALP "National Directory of Legal Employers," or on the NALP website at world wide web.nalp.org, or at world wide web.nalpdirectory.com. These Principles explain the kind of behavior that is expected of you during the recruitment process, and they also establish guidelines for the timing of offers and decisions.

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