The Career Development Office (CDO) offers a range of career services to graduate students. We work with LL.M. and S.J.D. students, as well as recent alumni of the Graduate Program at the Faculty of Law to assist them in their job search and other career development issues. The law school is committed to ensuring its students and graduates receive support and guidance in pursuing diverse, creative and fulfilling careers.
Services Available to Graduate Students
Other useful information:
Ivana Kadic,
Graduate Studies Career Advisor |
Individual Career Coaching
The Graduate Studies Career Advisor advises graduate students in individual appointments on various career-related issues. We coach students on job search strategies and skills for academic and non-academic positions, including resume and cover letter writing, networking, preparing for and practicing interviews. We also assist international graduate students in navigating the particular issues that they face in Canada, enabling the students to acquire knowledge about qualifying in Canada as a lawyer; international student visa issues; job market trends in Canada, in the United States, and overseas.
Career Development Programs
Throughout the year, the CDO organizes and facilitates career development programs on variety of topics, including programs which explore career opportunities in different work place settings, private and public sectors, multiple jurisdictions, within and beyond the practice of law, as well as programs which teach specific job search skills.
They are announced on graduate listserv, in Headnotes and on UTLawCareers.ca.
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Resource Material
Graduate students have access to a wide array of resource material on various topics, a guide on job search strategies designed specifically for graduate students, guide on academic careers, international careers, public interest, careers in various areas of law and many other. All of our resource material is available on-line on utlawcareers, and some career related books on reserve in the Bora Laskin Law Library. The Graduate Studies Career Advisor recommends to students resource material that is specific to the needs of graduate students.
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Access to UTLawCareers.ca
UTLawCareers.ca is our CDO web site which houses our employer database, job postings, as well as all our resource material in the document library and announces all CDO events. All graduate students have access to this website and can keep it when they graduate.
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Job Postings
The CDO obtains numerous job postings throughout the year. All postings, except academic ones, are posted on utlawcareers.ca. Academic job postings are distributed by e-mail to students who sign up.
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About the Graduate Studies Career Advisor
The Graduate Studies Career Advisor, Ivana Kadic, works with graduate law students (LL.M. and S.J.D.) and recent alumni of the graduate program to support their career planning and development. Ivana has been working with the Faculty of Law for the last nine years, first on a couple of international law projects, and then in career services. Ivana obtained her law degree from the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law in Croatia. Prior to joining the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, Ivana has lived and worked in Zagreb and Amsterdam. Ivana's office is located in Room 3022 in the Library. She can be reached at 416-978-2743 or at ivana.kadic@utoronto.ca.
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