Reaching Out to Students

Posting to the Career Events Calendar

Please see Policies and Procedures for Employer Receptions and Programs for instructions on how to post your event on our calendar.

Getting Involved in Career Programming

We welcome interested firms to participate in the various career programs our office offers to students throughout the year. If you are interested in contributing a speaker for one of our panels, please contact our office at ocs@law.harvard.edu.

Our office coordinates a Summer Mock Interview Program where attorney volunteers meet with and conduct mock interviews to help our students prepare for on-campus recruiting. A short guide is provided to assist our attorney volunteers in conducting these mock interviews.

Stuffing Student Mailboxes

Below are two ways to have your information put in to students' mailboxes.  Please note, OCS cannot send announcements to students by email.

• Each fall, OCS generates a list of students who have made themselves available for hire to stuff student mailboxes.  Students set their own rates for stuffing, but the cost generally falls between $75-100 per class.  For the contact information for these students, email Heather Stewart, Recruitment Manager, at recruiting@law.harvard.edu.
• HL Central, a non-profit student organization that assists employers with arranging receptions and other events is also available to stuff mailboxes.   

Firm Brochures

Due to students’ increased reliance on the web and our on-line employer directory, as well as to reduce your costs, we encourage you to minimize the use of paper brochures.  We are happy to keep a single copy of your firm recruitment materials on file in our office.

Advertising in the Harvard Law Record

The Law School’s student run newspaper is the Harvard Law Record.  It is published weekly and well read by the student population.  Many employers place advertisements in the Record during the recruiting season.  

Contacting 1L Students

The Law School does not make the facilities of the Office of Career Services available to first-year students prior to November 1.  In addition, we require that employers not communicate directly or indirectly with first-year students before December 1.  This rule also prohibits informally arranging meetings with 1Ls during the fall recruitment season, even if the contact is student initiated.  Invitations to social functions scheduled before December 1 should be directed only to second and third year students and, if first year students appear at such functions, employers are expected to make clear that their attendance is a violation of policy.  Employers using the Office of Career Services may not organize, on their own, interview schedules in the Cambridge area for first-year students before the spring semester.

Contacting Student Organizations

Harvard Law School is host to over 80 student organizations covering a broad spectrum of political, ethnic, religious, artistic, and social interests.  These organizations include clinical programs, professional interest groups, service organizations, social groups, special interest and ethic groups and student publications.

Many employers are interested in doing special outreach to minority students.  A list of affinity groups is also available.