The law major was once one of the most popular majors, but with the massive increase in graduates, the employment situation is obviously not as good as before. Although the employment situation of law majors has not yet gone through the "cold winter", there are signs of recovery. With the formation of a market economy and society, the social demand for legal professionals will inevitably increase. In the long run, the employment prospects of law majors will be quite broad.
According to relevant data, the financial, investment, and securities fields have the greatest demand for us, accounting for 21% of the total social demand, and professional services such as consulting, human resources, and accounting account for 12%. Generally speaking, the current employment directions of our law majors are mainly lawyers, civil servants, and corporate legal consultants. In addition, there are other related fields, such as legal publicity, accounting, auditing, etc.
Employment Direction for Law Majors
1. Civil Servants
Traditionally, those who serve as prosecutors, judges and civil servants in the public, prosecutorial and legal systems are considered to be a " iron rice bowl". This type of job has relatively high wages and social status, which is in line with our law major.
To become a judge or prosecutor, friends must first pass the National Unified Judicial Examination. The judicial examination can be said to be the most important examination for law graduates, with a passing rate of about 30%. Such a strict pass rate is precisely to ensure the quality of personnel working in the judicial system. In addition, if you want to enter the public security, procuratorial, and legal institutions, in addition to the judicial examination, you must also pass the national civil service examination.
However, with the expansion of law majors, public security, procuratorate, and legal agencies are gradually saturated with staff, and it is not easy for my friends to become civil servants. Even so, don't give up easily, fight for yourself at least once, and don't persist blindly if it's really difficult. Our law major actually has many career options to choose from.
Second, lawyers
Lawyers are not only the counterpart of the legal profession, but are not as difficult as civil servants, and the working environment is not as boring as public security, procuratorial, and legal institutions, so they have always been The first choice of many law seniors.
Lawyers are an experience-based industry, and income varies based on ability, work experience and the legal fields involved. The income structure of lawyers can be divided into two ways: one is paid, the firm pays the lawyer, and the lawyer is responsible for litigation; the other is that the lawyer does not receive a salary and the salary is distributed according to business commissions.
Interested partners must also pass the national judicial examination and obtain a lawyer's license before they can become lawyers. If you are good at both English and international law, your career competitiveness will be stronger.
Third, the company’s legal advisers
Currently, company legal advisers are the most concentrated employment sector for law graduates, mainly serving the company’s legal affairs department, legal consulting department, and intellectual property rights department. For example, major state-owned enterprises, banks, foreign companies, and some large private companies will set up legal departments within the company to handle legal affairs involved in the company.
The work of the company's legal counsel mainly includes the writing and review of legal contracts; drafting or reviewing company-related legal documents; participating in the negotiation of major projects and contracts; analyzing company-related lawsuits or cases; handling internal or external matters Legal Affairs; provides legal support to other departments.
The work of legal consultants is mainly focused on the economic activities of enterprises, so it is very important for partners to master corporate law, contract law, intellectual property law and other laws and regulations. Additionally, we need to be familiar with legal issues such as joint ventures and contract review. Law is a job involving many relationships and corporate interests. Friends must be rigorous and careful, as an overly impetuous personality will become a weakness in the work. Foreign companies generally require legal personnel to be proficient in English or a foreign language. Suggest your friends to improve their foreign language skills, which will broaden your career development.
Fourth, legal publicity
Friends who are interested in the media and have relevant potential can turn their attention to the direction of legal publicity. Most of these jobs are as hosts, editors or commentators in the legal columns of TV stations and newspapers at all levels. Today's media pay more and more attention to the professionalization of programs. When recruiting employees for legal programs and columns, they pay more attention to candidates with legal professional backgrounds. The participation of such talents is conducive to the professionalization of the program.
This type of work requires friends not only to have a solid legal foundation, but also to have the potential to host a program and speak standard Mandarin. If you are an editor, you need good writing skills. Friends, don’t feel inferior because of your lack of professional foundation in broadcasting and hosting. As long as you have a "hosting dream" or "editing dream" in your mind, you can bravely try. A legal professional background will give us an advantage that is different from others.