What are the employment directions for law majors?

Positions that law majors can pursue:

1. Civil servants

Mainly include prosecutors, judges, and civil servants in administrative agencies. For graduates majoring in law, the "professional counterpart" in the traditional sense should be to enter the public security, prosecutorial and judicial agencies. However, due to the establishment of the national unified judicial examination system, undergraduates who want to become judges or prosecutors must pass the national judicial examination after graduation.

2. Lawyers

Lawyers are not as difficult to get into as the civil service, but they are also a counterpart to the legal profession and are the main choice for many young graduates. Lawyers are an experience-based profession, and their incomes vary widely. Judging from the situation in Beijing, it is not a problem for top lawyers to earn 10 million yuan a year, but most junior lawyers and trainee lawyers may only earn about 10,000 to 20,000 yuan a year.

3. Corporate legal personnel

Company legal personnel are also the most concentrated employment group of law graduates. They mainly serve the legal affairs department, legal consulting department and intellectual property rights of enterprises. Department etc. For example, major state-owned enterprises, banks, foreign companies, and some large private companies will have legal departments within the company to handle legal affairs involved in the company.

4. Other related fields

In addition to the above main employment directions, other fields of society also need legal talents with "complex knowledge structures". For example, positions such as secretarial, human resource management, and marketing in enterprises have a certain demand for talents with both basic knowledge of economic management and professional legal knowledge.

Employment prospects of the law major:

The law major was once recognized as a good major that holds the "iron rice bowl". However, with the saturation of personnel in the public security and judicial departments, law graduates The number of students has surged, etc., and the ice age for law employment has arrived. This phenomenon not only exists in the employment situation of general undergraduates, but also in some well-known law schools.

The legal profession has great development prospects from the perspective of social needs. Judging from the employment status of law majors, the overall salary level of law majors is higher than that of other industries.

With the development of the country's economy, science and technology, and society, my country's legal system is also in a period of rapid development and gradual improvement. Especially since my country's "entry into the WTO", the social demand for legal professionals has increased sharply. , various economic organizations and law firms have a particularly prominent demand for legal professionals.