Law major was once recognized as a good major holding an "iron rice bowl". However, with the saturation of public security organs and the sharp increase in the number of law graduates, the ice age of law employment has arrived.
This phenomenon exists not only in the employment of ordinary undergraduates, but also in some well-known law schools. From the perspective of social demand, law major has great development prospects. Judging from the employment situation of law graduates, the overall salary level of law majors is higher than that of other industries.
Employment direction of law major 202 1
1, civil servant
Mainly including prosecutors, judges and civil servants of administrative organs. For law graduates, the traditional "professional counterpart" should be to enter the public, procuratorial and legal organs. However, due to the establishment of the national unified judicial examination system, undergraduates must pass the national judicial examination if they want to become judges and prosecutors after graduation.
Students will find that a "diploma" is definitely not a "professional access card". Judicial examination can be said to be the most important examination for law graduates, and the passing rate of this examination is about 30%. Of course, if you want to enter the public security, procuratorial and legal institutions, you have to pass the national civil service examination in addition to the judicial examination.
2. Lawyers
Lawyers are not as difficult as civil servants, but also the counterpart field of law major and the main choice for many young graduates. Lawyer is an experienced industry with uneven income. According to the situation in Beijing, the annual salary of top lawyers is not a problem, but most small lawyers and trainee lawyers may only earn about 654.38+0-0.2 million. At present, China adopts a strict access system for lawyers' qualifications, and they must pass the national judicial examination.
3. The company's legal personnel
The legal staff of the company is also the most concentrated part of the employment of law graduates at present, mainly serving the legal affairs department, legal consulting department and intellectual property department of the enterprise.
For example, major state-owned enterprises, banks, foreign enterprises and some large private enterprises will set up legal departments within the company to handle legal affairs involved in the enterprise. Some of them work in the legal affairs department of the government, but the general government departments have higher requirements for academic qualifications and work ability, which are beyond the reach of ordinary undergraduates.
Salary, the average annual salary of legal personnel in foreign companies is about 654.38+ 10,000, requiring proficiency in English or a foreign language; The annual salary of large state-owned enterprises and private enterprises is around 50,000-70,000, but they have different requirements for different universities and majors.