Word: economice
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The economic downturn and its effects on the legal hiring market have prompted students to reflect on their career interests and priorities. With no guarantee of a position at a big law firm, students have become more likely to enter public service directly after graduation.
“Students are looking more carefully at the firms’ structure to see how they will last through the economic crisis,” Davis said. “There is more awareness of firms’ relationship to the economy.”
Finding careers during a tough economic period has taught students not to simply take “the path of least resistance,” Jackson says.
Law firms’ responses to the economic downturn have spurred adjustments at the OCS, which saw the need to respond to the difficulties students faced in the 2008-2009 hiring cycle.
Though some students have struggled to find jobs, they say they are aware that Harvard students have been insulated from the worst of the economic turmoil.