Announcements & RemindersRegistration for Summer OCI 2024 will open on Tuesday, February 20 at Noon EST on Symplicity.
Action Items
- Review your confirmed schedule(s) in Symplicity to ensure all the appropriate offices, posting details, hiring criteria and information is correct. Please reach out as soon as possible should you have an update to your schedule(s).
- If you would like to adjust the start time of a schedule to account for time zones, please email me with the requested time zone adjustment. Interview times listed in Symplicity are in EDT.
- Bookmark the Summer OCI employer site – https://events.law.umich.edu/eiw/
- Register for Meet the Employers on Thursday, July 13 (please reference the June 29 email for additional information).
- Add a back-up video link (i.e. Zoom, WebEx) to your confirmed OCI schedule(s) in Symplicity should we need to use that link for interviews during OCI. Symplicity>OCI>Confirmed Schedules>Select Date>Virtual Interview Information (screenshot below).
Summer OCI Fees:
Summer OCI (July 26, 27, 31, August 1)
Firm Size:
<100 – $500
100+ – $1,500
*Fees include a $200 non-refundable registration fee.
*Fees are flat rates regardless of the number of interview schedules.
Registration & Fees For Summer OCI
To Register for Summer OCI:
- Login to Symplicity
- Select OCI > Schedule Request > Request a Schedule >Select Session-Summer OCI
- Complete and submit your registration form
Multiple Offices
If you are registering for multiple offices within your organization and want students to interview only once, you must include all related offices on one registration form. If you would like students to have the opportunity to interview separately with more than one office, you will need to complete separate registration forms. If you do not see all offices for which you wish to register, please complete a registration form and then email Shannon Delecki at sdelecki@umich.edu with a list of offices you wish to add to your registration.
IMPORTANT: You will also be asked if the Office of Career Planning can maximize your schedule by filling open interview slots for Office A with waitlisted students for Office B. This only applies if your firm is interviewing for multiple offices. For example, the Miami schedule has open slots, but you have a New York waitlist, can we fill the Miami slots with students interested in New York? Please carefully review this question as we will use this information during the week of scheduling to organize your firm’s interview schedule.
Tip to Strengthen Your Schedule
We strongly encourage employers to utilize the “Hiring Criteria” section of the registration form. Every year we hear from employers who wish they would have included more information in this section – so please include your make-or-break criteria! Are there particular majors in which your organization is interested, grade expectations, student group involvement, what professional experience prior to law school that you value, etc.? It is in your best interest to include as much information as possible.
*Times are in EDT
February 22 – Registration opens via Symplicity at Noon
Mid-April – Interview dates assigned via Symplicity
June 1 – Student bidding opens for Summer OCI
Week of June 5 – Grades are released
July 5 – Invoices issued
July 12 – Final day for employers to make changes to their OCI schedule(s).
July 13 – Meet the Employers (for participating EIW employers and students)
July 19 – Student bidding closes
July 21 – Deadline to enter interviewer names, UMLS and alumni status into Symplicity (i.e. Anne Linder ’06)
July 22 – Final day for students to drop interviews
July 23 – Schedules released to employers interviewing on July 26 and 27 by 5:00 p.m. via Symplicity
July 28 – Schedules released to employers interviewing on July 31 and August 1 by 12:00 p.m. via Symplicity
July 26, 27, 31, and August 1 – Summer OCI
August 5 – Summer OCI invoice payment due
Monday, August 28 – Fall semester begins
Mid-September – Callback & offer feedback via Symplicity requested by the Office of Career Planning
October – Callback & offer feedback finalized by employers via Symplicity
*Recruiters will receive interview links from michiganlaw@floevents.email the evening prior to their interviews for forwarding to the interviewers. Our goal will be to get links out as early as possible.
Resume Collects
Posting a Resume Collect via Symplicity can be a great way to identify Michigan Law students you may wish to interview outside of the formal on-campus interview process.
To post a Resume Collect, you must first establish an account with Michigan Law Symplicity. Once logged in, click “Create Job Posting” under the Shortcuts menu of Symplicity. Be sure to select “Resume Collect = Yes” in the job posting form. Resume Collects will go live to students no earlier than June 1.
100% Lottery Format
Michigan Law operates its OCI as a 100% lottery system. This means that employers are not able to pre-screen candidates prior to interviews.
In researching potential employers, our students rely on online resources. Therefore, we encourage employers to use their websites to convey information to students about the organization, selection criteria, work the office does, and training that a summer clerk or beginning associate may expect. Students also review NALP forms and NALP Workplace questionnaires and we suggest that employers update these forms regularly.
SJD & Dual Degree Students
A number of our S.J.D. candidates indicate an interest in practicing in the US either permanently or for a period of time after graduation. Each year a handful of S.J.D. candidates participate in EIW. These students come from many different countries and are selected from hundreds of applicants. Annually many of these students plan to take an American licensing examination.
Dozens of our J.D. candidates are also pursuing either a joint master’s degree or Ph.D in other schools throughout the University. Joint degree students face demanding requirements from their programs. Because of their interdisciplinary approach to the study of law, they bring a unique expertise to their employment settings. These students usually complete requirements for both degrees in four years.
Flo Recruit
We are using Flo Recruit to host Summer OCI. Law School transcripts and additional documents (if applicable) requested by the firm will be available in Flo Recruit at the start of student interviews. Resumes will be available in Symplicity.
Employers will receive the video links for forwarding to the interviewers for their interviews no later than Noon EDT the day prior to their interviews. Our goal will be to get links out as early as possible.
For those employers that have not yet used the Flo Recruit platform, it is a web-based tool (optimized for Chrome) and does not require any downloads or plugins to use. We have learned, however, that it does not work as smoothly if you are accessing the internet via a VPN.
Test Room Link: https://florecruit.com/video/testRoom/.
Flo Recruit Resource Center
Flo Recruit created a Virtual OCI Resource Center with quick video guides and how-to documents. We encourage you to share the link to this resource center (https://start.florecruit.com/resources) with your interviewers before OCI.
Interviews
All times listed in Symplicity are in Eastern Time. Interviews will be held 8:30 a.m.-5:10 p.m. EDT. There are two 10-minute breaks in the morning and two 10-minute breaks in the afternoon with a 40 minute lunch within the window of 12:10-12:50 p.m. EDT depending on the length of your interviews.
The office location for which the student has interest is listed on the interview schedule. It is possible that a student is interested in more than one location. We have instructed the student to let the interview know if they are interested in more than one office.
Transcripts
We understand interviewers and recruiting teams need student transcripts promptly because callback decisions are often made quickly. In order to maintain the grades-blind nature of our program and in an attempt to account for the multiple ways that firms want to receive this information, student transcripts will be shared with recruiting teams via Flo Recruit.
- Student transcripts will be available to view and download in Flo Recruit at the start of interviews on your interview date.
Please remember that we have a grades-blind process. Please do not request students to send transcripts prior to the completion of the interview. We have advised students that sometimes firms may not remember our policies and accidentally request transcripts in advance. In that instance, we have advised students to politely and professionally remind firms of our policy and direct them to Career Planning if they have questions.
Michigan Law operates on a 100% lottery system – employers will not be making pre-selects.
Non-discrimination and Equal Opportunity in Employment
The University of Michigan Law School is a diverse community and the Law School seeks to create and sustain an environment of inclusivity for all of its students that is free from discrimination and harassment.
As an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, the University of Michigan complies with all applicable federal and state laws regarding non-discrimination and affirmative action. The University of Michigan is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all persons and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, disability, religion, height, weight, or veteran status in employment, educational programs and activities, and admissions.
Furthermore, discrimination based on gender, ethnicity, or military status violates the University’s commitment to ensuring equal opportunity in educational, occupational, and professional advancement, and the University would review claims of such discrimination in accordance with applicable law and policy.
As a condition of using the Office of Career Planning’s facilities or services, employers must observe the principles of equal opportunity stated in this nondiscrimination policy with respect to their own hiring, promotion, retention, and conditions of employment.
Complaints that prospective employers have violated this nondiscrimination policy, or have otherwise engaged in illegal, inappropriate, or unethical conduct during the recruiting process will be investigated and, where appropriate, sanctions up to and including exclusion from recruiting activities may be imposed.
Shannon Delecki, Manager of Recruitment Programs
If you have a question related to your interview schedule or logistics, please email Shannon Delecki, Manager of Recruitment Programs at sdelecki@umich.edu. Please know that we will respond as quickly as possible to your question/request and will do our best to accommodate.