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Flo Forward Student Guide

How to navigate your *awesome* new Forward account!

Written by Annie Cox

Welcome to Flo Forward! Flo Forward is your centralized legal career dashboard, where you can discover job opportunities, explore employers, register for recruiting events, manage interviews, and keep track of your applications. Opportunities on Forward can include positions with law firms, public interest organizations, and other legal employers.

Creating your profile:

Navigate to this link to create your Forward profile. You will first need to verify your email address:

We highly recommend using the email address you typically use to apply to jobs and register for events, but you can have more than one email address associated with your profile as needed.

After verifying, you will fill out your personal information in a few different steps:

In step 2, you will enter your school information. Note that at this time,

our event board is only available to 1L students that are listed as 1Ls on their profile. For our job board, you will only be able to see jobs that reflect your listed class year as well. For rising 2Ls, we recommend listing yourself as a 1L.

You will also get the chance to select your preferred office locations and practice areas. Note that you can change this later! This will help us show you the positions you're best fit for:

Once you've completed setup, you'll get your first look at your new dashboard!

Navigating Flo Forward

Above is a snapshot of what your dashboard looks like. Notice the navigation buttons on the top of the page, the settings option, and the space to add a second email. We'll go through all of these options below.


Browse Firms

The Browse Firms tab will allow you to view firm profiles for over 85 firms, nationwide!

Select a firm to view their profile:

The first section of their profile will contain their firm highlights and a brief about section, as well as links to their socials and firm website.

Scrolling down, you'll see a snapshot of their summer program with detailed breakdowns available.

The remainder of their profile as well as any open jobs and events can be found below the summer program snapshot!


Find Events

The Find Events page will allow you to explore events hosted by Flo firms! You'll notice we have both in-person and virtual event options.

Clicking "Register Now" will allow you to submit your information and register for the event. Once thi sis done, you will see the event appear on your dashboard!


Apply to Jobs

The Flo Forward Job Board helps you discover legal career opportunities that match your experience and interests. Depending on your eligibility and the opportunities currently available, you may find summer associate positions, public interest opportunities, clerk positions, attorney roles, and other legal jobs. New opportunities are added regularly, so be sure to check back often.

Notice the lefthand menu. This will allow you to narrow down the jobs you see by preference. You can also search and sort the options for even easier use.

For jobs that allow you to apply on the firm's website, navigating back to Forward will prompt you to answer whether or not you applied to the job:

Make sure to mark this accurately! This will allow the job to show on your dashboard if you did apply.


Follow Firms and Save Jobs & Events

Flo Forward makes it easy to keep track of firms and opportunities you’re interested in. You can follow firms to hear about their latest opportunities or save jobs and events you want to revisit later. Following is about who you want to hear from next, while saving is about what you want to come back to.

Follow a Firm

You can follow firms you’re interested in directly from the Browse Firms directory or from the firm's profile.

  1. Navigate to Browse Firms.

  2. Find the firm you’re interested in.

  3. Select Follow on the firm's card or open the firm profile and select Follow in the upper-right corner.

    Or:

  4. Once selected, the button will display Following. You can select it again if you would like to unfollow the firm.

Note: You must be signed in and have a graduation year listed on your profile to follow a firm. If your graduation year is missing, Flo Forward will prompt you to add it before you can follow the firm.

Receive Updates from Firms You Follow

When a firm you follow publishes a new job or event that you're eligible for, Flo Forward will send you an email notification. Notifications are grouped by firm and sent within the hour, so if a firm posts multiple opportunities around the same time, you may see them together in one email.

You'll only receive notifications for opportunities you're eligible to view on Flo Forward. For example, job notifications take your graduation year into account, while event notifications may also consider factors such as class year, law school targeting, and profile type.

Save Jobs and Events for Later

Found an opportunity you're interested in but aren't ready to apply or register yet? Select the bookmark icon on a job or event card—or on its detail page—to save it. Select the bookmark again at any time to remove it from your saved items.

You will see a banner appear on the bottom prompting you to follow:

View Your Followed Firms and Saved Items

From your Flo Forward dashboard, select My Saved Items.

From here, you can use the tabs to view:

  • Following: Firms you currently follow

  • Jobs: Jobs you've saved

  • Events: Events you've saved

You can also unfollow firms directly from the Following tab by clicking the Following button to remove the Follow.

Note: Applying to a saved job or registering for a saved event does not automatically remove it from your saved items. It will remain saved until you choose to remove it.


Settings

Under your account settings, you'll have the option to change any information that you entered when creating your account, other than your primary email address. If you need to link your account with another email, select "Emails" from the lefthand menu:

Here, you can enter a secondary email address. Once you add a second one, verify it!


Not Seeing Any Jobs?

If you navigate to the Apply to Jobs tab and see a message indicating

that there are 0 jobs open, this is typically due to incorrect or incomplete profile information.

Why This Happens

Job visibility is determined by your Graduation Date and Class Year. If this information is missing or entered incorrectly in your profile, the system may not display available — or the most relevant — job opportunities.

To resolve this, you will need to update your education details in your profile settings.

How to fix it:

  1. Go to the My Dashboard tab and click the gear icon (⚙️) to edit your settings.
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  2. Scroll down to the Education History section to Edit.
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3. Add or confirm your Graduation Date and Class Year.

4. Save your changes and refresh the Apply to Jobs page.


As Flo grows, so will Forward! Check back here for any updates and best of luck on your job search!

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