Do you get a job out of college?

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Correct me if I'm wrong maybe it depends on country but if my thanking is correct your college helps you look for a job right? On the advance level Graduate degree you can work as a research assistant and get payed for it and at that high a level they help you find a job correct? How does college work in this area?

Your university will probably have a place called something like a Career Center, where there are people who will help you with your resume and check their job bank for positions you would be qualified for. They won't automatically match every student with a job--you have to contact the Career Center yourself and possibly make an appointment to see them.

If you are accepted to graduate school, you may get something like a fellowship or stipend for your first year and an offer of an assistant position for the subsequent years. The department will probably take care of matching the grad students with the assistantships, but you should ask questions to find out for sure what you need to do to be a teaching or research assistant.

Most all schools have a "Career Center" and most all of them are about as useful as nipples on a bull.

They might help you locate a part-time job, but overall, no quality employer seriously looking to hire bothers talking to them. Candidates come to them. They might help you with some basic tasks, but the school only cares about getting your tuition money. They couldn't care less if you get a good job. These centers are more for appearance than anything else.

We laughed at my law school because our "career center" was run by a minimally-qualified secretary who got the job and basically copied what other schools had in place. About the time I finished school, she got a better job at another university, and I joked to a classmate that at least the center helped SOMEBODY get a better job.

It all makes me think of how the Commonwealth of Virginia did a workshop to help ensure that court-appointed lawyers could better ensure quality representation of the indigent. One of the speakers was one of the lawyers in the Kobe rape trial. She discussed the merits of having co-counsel at the table to help catch things you might miss, and the lawyer I knew who attended spoke up and asked how she suggested lawyers getting paid a paltry fee for representing an indigent would manage to convince another attorney to take half of that paltry sum to do what she suggested.

Great idea, but it only works when you are representing someone who has money to spend.

Same is true with these career centers. Some give some great tips, but they leave it all in your lap to get anything done.