In Mexico, 90% of law graduates do not know the labor demand, says the Jurist College; The fields with more vacancies in the legal profession in Mexico are the corporate and fiscal sector.
Ivonne Vargas Hernández
The saying goes that it always helps to have a lawyer at home, but what kind? 90% of graduates of the law degree lack skills to work in the areas with the highest hiring in the country, says the Law School.
The most mobile are corporate lawyers, who dominate work scenarios such as layoffs, employee lawsuits, mergers, business transactions and fraud. Tax specialists also have a large field of work, says the lawyer from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) , Gerardo Hernández.
In Mexico there is no framework that regulates the legal profession and there are no key subjects to highlight in the labor framework, says Jorge Manrique, Rector of the Jurist College.
The Labor Observatory places Law as one of the degrees with the highest number of professionals employed, although that does not mean that they are hired in activities related to their studies, in law they only exercise 68.4%.
Manrique mentions that current graduates need, before concluding their degree , to have more knowledge about clients, disciplinary procedures and sanctions, availability of legal services and organizational governance. These are the weakest subjects in the universities and institutions that teach this degree in Mexico.
"Detecting market trends is facilitated when the school establishes exchange relations with associations and organizations to share curricula, research and academic plans. It is also necessary to emphasize strategic alliances with companies and key actors in the delivery of justice" , says the rector of the Jurist College.
A latent problem, according to the Rector of the Jurist College is the proliferation of law schools. In the last 20 years "study programs have been generated below the optimum level", therefore there are few opportunities to develop the practical skills that the student needs.
Another lack to work on is practice. Sometimes teachers have no experience, they are good at teaching, but maybe they have never litigated or done it rarely. "How can the student be advised if the teacher does not know what is happening on a day-to-day basis, the problems they should understand?" Asks the vocational counselor Leticia Pérez.
The psychologist also graduated from the UNAM expresses that in Mexican culture the tradition in the choice of studies still "weighs", a fact that leads the student to make erroneous decisions . As everyone knows what a lawyer is doing and it is a 'recognized' career, among some families there is a belief that they have to study this profession: "study something that pays," parents say to their children.
That can generate uncertainty in the young person, but being a decision "for a lifetime", it is the responsibility of that person to inform themselves of the different options of subjects, programs, schools, and take into account what their field of work will be when they graduate, Pérez points out.
Even when it comes to a 'saturated' career, Jorge Manrique emphasizes that there are various alternatives for lawyers in corporate and different entities. The challenge is the high inability for graduates to access these positions due to "poor academic training," says the Rector.
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