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NALP Employment Report and Salary Survey

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Graduate Employment Survey Form
Name
Phone
Permanent Address
City
State
Country
Zip Code
Email Address
I. Demographic Information
A. PROGRAM TYPE AT TIME OF GRADUATION
B. AGE (Complete either B1 or B2)
B1. Age at Graduation
B2. Birth Date Mo  Day  Yr
C. GENDER
D. RACE/ETHNCITY
(You may check up to two)
Hispanic/Latino
Black/African American
Asian
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander
American Indian/Alaska Native
White/Caucasian
E. DISABILITY STATUS
(describe)
II. Post Graduate Employment Status
A1. Select only one of the following to describe your post-graduate status:




A2. If you are not employed, are you volunteering?


A3. Job Information
1. Type of Job (choose only one)


(describe)
(describe)
2. Job is: (check only one)
3. Job pays:
$ per year
$ (choose one)
4. Indicate whether the employer hired you on a short-term or long-term basis. Note that a long-term job from the employer's perspective may be one that you consider short-term, while, for example, you continue to seek a different job. Please indicate the type of job from the employer's perspective.


Special funding: If your job has a fixed duration, whether short-term (e.g. less than 1 year) or long-term (e.g. 1 or 2 years), please indicate if the job is funded in either of the following ways:
Describe
5. Indicate whether you are seeking a job other than the one described here

6. Timing of offer (mark one)


7. Date on which you started or will start your job
Mo Day Yr
8. Source of Job: Mark the one choice that best describes how you learned of and made initial contact with the employer. If you received an offer from your summer employer, or the employer for whom you worked during law school, indicate how you initially made contact with that employer.
Interviewed during fall OCI program organized by the career services office
Interviewed during spring OCI program organized by the career services office
Returned to or continued with pre-law school employer
Interviewed at job fair or consortia
Responded to job posting in career services' print or online posting/bulletin/jobline/binder/direct contact listing or utilized its résumé referral service
Referral by business colleague, friend, relative, alumni, or school personnel
Responded to job posting, either in print (e.g. classified ad) or in a commercial or non-profit job site such as Monster, OSCAR, PSJD, USAJobs, etc.
Initiated contact by means of a targeted mailing or informational interviewing, or as a result of networking
Used a temporary placement agency or legal search consultant
Started own practice or business
Other (describe)
B. Employer Information
Name
Street
City
State
Zip
Complete B1, B2, and B3 Only if Your Primary Job Is in Law Firm Private Practice. If Not, Skip to B4/B5, B6/B7, B8 or B9/B10 As Appropriate. If You Are Employed by a Legal Temporary Agency, Skip to B4 and B5 (Business or Industry) Regardless of the Employer at Which the Agency Has Placed You.
B1. Total Size of Law Firm (Mark only one for size of entire firm by total number of attorneys)







B2.
B3. Type of Law Firm Job (mark one only)



If Job Is In Business or Industry, Complete Both B4 and B5.
B4. Type of Employer









(describe)
B5. Type of Job







(describe)
If Job Is In Government, Complete Both B6 and B7.
B6. Level of Government



(describe)
B7. Type of Job








(describe)
B8. If Job Is in a Public Interest Organization or Other Nonprofit (Mark one item that best describes the primary type of work or job you will be handling)




(describe)
If Job Is In Academia/Education Complete Both B9 and B10
B9. Type of Employer



(describe)
B10. Type of Job



III. Second Job Information
(Complete only if you have a job concurrent with that reported above.)
Name and Address of Employer
Name
Street
City
State
Zip
A1. Type of Job (check only one)


(describe)
(describe)
A2. Job is: (check only one)

A3. Employer Type (mark one only)





Other Remarks


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