{"id":5908,"date":"2017-07-05T16:35:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T20:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/?page_id=2360"},"modified":"2026-08-11T18:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T18:33:13","slug":"starting-your-job-search","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/career-exploration-professional-development\/for-ll-m-students\/starting-your-job-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting Your Job Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exploring your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/career-exploration-professional-development\/for-ll-m-students\/starting-your-job-search\/explore-your-career-options\/\">career options<\/a>\u00a0is critical for a successful job search. Research the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/career-exploration-professional-development\/for-ll-m-students\/starting-your-job-search\/explore-your-career-options\/practice-areas\/\">practice areas<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/career-exploration-professional-development\/for-ll-m-students\/starting-your-job-search\/explore-your-career-options\/practice-settings\/\">practice settings<\/a> in which you are potentially interested. You should also become familiar with key job search databases you will use as a student at Georgetown Law: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/career-exploration-professional-development\/for-ll-m-students\/starting-your-job-search\/symplicity\/\">Explore Symplicity<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/law-tip-csm.symplicity.com\/students\/?signin_tab=0&amp;signin_tab=0\">Pre-Approved Externships Database via TIP Symplicity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout your job search process, you should also be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/career-exploration-professional-development\/for-ll-m-students\/starting-your-job-search\/2645-2\/\">networking and building relationships<\/a>: creating that personal network that will serve you well beyond your first position out of Georgetown Law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exploring your career options\u00a0is critical for a successful job search. Research the practice areas and practice settings in which you are potentially interested. You should also become familiar with key job search databases you will use as a student at Georgetown Law: Explore Symplicity and the Pre-Approved Externships Database via TIP Symplicity. Throughout your job [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"parent":4928,"menu_order":77,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5908","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5908"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36171,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5908\/revisions\/36171"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/your-life-career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}