Legal Recruitment Blog

We have had a Guide on our Legal Careers Shop for many years, but after 8 years we have decided it is probably time to update and upgrade it, particularly when the previous version talks about writing letters to law firms (no mention of email, which until c.2010 was still alien for a lot of law firms).  This work is now complete and you can view the guide by visiting our Legal Careers Shop and downloading it. There is no charge and the guide includes the following: A guaranteed failsafe technique for getting both work experience and a training contract.  Answers queries you may have about legal recruitment agencies and whether they can help.  Guides you to improving your chances on getting work experience or a training contract.  Download the guide at www.legalcareercoaching.co.uk and then visit www.ten-percent.co.uk and read some of the 100s of articles on preparing your CV, completing application forms, attending interviews, tactics for improving respon...

28/04/08 Strategy for finding a training contract or legal work experience. We have found often in the years that we have been advising law students and graduates on searching for training contracts or work experience placements that people go about it in a very slapdash and haphazard way. Most people prepare standard questions, standard covering letter and a standard CV and look in the training contract handbook and online at places like lawcareers.net and send out as many applications as they can without actually thinking through what it is they’re looking for and what they personally can offer the particular firm. The same people may have gone about preparing for their A levels in quite the opposite way many years before. They may have spent six months revising, covering every point, researching every issue and then revising every matter that needed to be dealt with in their exams. However, because careers advice at universities and institutions can be so poor (or there can be next ...