ACBA launches online Internship/Clerkship Job Board
March 2019
By Jennifer Pulice
By Jennifer Pulice
The ACBA is pleased to announce its newest member benefit – and the latest in a growing list of enhancements added to the ACBA Legal Employment Services – an Internship/Clerkship Job Board that is located at http://internjobs.acba.org/. The new job board launched Oct. 1.
The board is designed to connect students (law students, paralegal students and legal administrative students) with internship, clerkship and other similar job opportunities at Pittsburgh-area firms and corporations. And, at only $50 per posting, the new board is an affordable way to make these connections.
“Through ACBA Legal Employment Services, we provide career counseling and help to connect attorneys in the job market with openings at area employers, but helping current lawyers is only part of broader efforts,” said ACBA Executive Director David Blaner. “Connecting students pursuing legal careers with internship and clerkship positions is a big priority for us. Those students are the future of the legal profession. Launching this new Internship/Clerkship Job Board is a major hurdle in our efforts to grow this program.”
The new Internship/Clerkship Board was created based on requests from both employers and legal students who desired a central place to view opportunities for students. The bar association developed the site with help from ymcareers, the same company that developed the main ACBA Job Board that is located at jobs.acba.org, which, at approximately 11,000 hits per month, is the most-visited page on any ACBA website.
Similar to the operations of the ACBA Job Board, ACBA staff cross posts jobs that employers post to the Internship/Clerkship Board to the ACBA’s newly launched career-focused Facebook page – Facebook.com/PittsburghLegalJobs – as well as the ACBA’s regular Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn pages at no additional charge. The jobs that are posted to the Internship/Clerkship Board are also provided to career services centers at numerous schools throughout Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.
In addition to posting internship and clerkship opportunities for law students on the board, employers also are welcome to post any type of legal internship position they are recruiting for throughout the year, including but not limited to student file clerk positions, paralegal internships and any other student opportunities.
Posting an ad on the new site is easy. Simply navigate to http://internjobs.acba.org/, create an employer account if your organization does not already have one, and click on “post a job” to get started. Employers who have already created a career center account with the association’s main Job Board will be able to log onto the Internship/Clerkship Board using their existing credentials.
With more than 130,000 hits over the past year, the ACBA Job Board has proven to be a very valuable resource to firms looking to attract new talent. More than 175 offers of full-time employment were extended last year as a result of matches that were made using the main ACBA Job Board. It is anticipated that the Internship/Clerkship Board will continue to foster and improve the association’s history of providing connections between job seekers and employers.
The board is designed to connect students (law students, paralegal students and legal administrative students) with internship, clerkship and other similar job opportunities at Pittsburgh-area firms and corporations. And, at only $50 per posting, the new board is an affordable way to make these connections.
“Through ACBA Legal Employment Services, we provide career counseling and help to connect attorneys in the job market with openings at area employers, but helping current lawyers is only part of broader efforts,” said ACBA Executive Director David Blaner. “Connecting students pursuing legal careers with internship and clerkship positions is a big priority for us. Those students are the future of the legal profession. Launching this new Internship/Clerkship Job Board is a major hurdle in our efforts to grow this program.”
The new Internship/Clerkship Board was created based on requests from both employers and legal students who desired a central place to view opportunities for students. The bar association developed the site with help from ymcareers, the same company that developed the main ACBA Job Board that is located at jobs.acba.org, which, at approximately 11,000 hits per month, is the most-visited page on any ACBA website.
Similar to the operations of the ACBA Job Board, ACBA staff cross posts jobs that employers post to the Internship/Clerkship Board to the ACBA’s newly launched career-focused Facebook page – Facebook.com/PittsburghLegalJobs – as well as the ACBA’s regular Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn pages at no additional charge. The jobs that are posted to the Internship/Clerkship Board are also provided to career services centers at numerous schools throughout Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.
In addition to posting internship and clerkship opportunities for law students on the board, employers also are welcome to post any type of legal internship position they are recruiting for throughout the year, including but not limited to student file clerk positions, paralegal internships and any other student opportunities.
Posting an ad on the new site is easy. Simply navigate to http://internjobs.acba.org/, create an employer account if your organization does not already have one, and click on “post a job” to get started. Employers who have already created a career center account with the association’s main Job Board will be able to log onto the Internship/Clerkship Board using their existing credentials.
With more than 130,000 hits over the past year, the ACBA Job Board has proven to be a very valuable resource to firms looking to attract new talent. More than 175 offers of full-time employment were extended last year as a result of matches that were made using the main ACBA Job Board. It is anticipated that the Internship/Clerkship Board will continue to foster and improve the association’s history of providing connections between job seekers and employers.