Legal Recruitment Blog

One of the key searches for the Ten Percent Legal Recruitment site is for interview questions and strategies for lawyers and legal and interviews. This article covers the various resources available on the Ten Percent sites and also external sites. Interview Questions The main location for interview questions on the Ten Percent Site is the Top 100 Interview Questions for Lawyers which can be found here . This page contains 100 questions used by law firms up and down the country and also refers to sources for suggested answers in places. We know that these questions are used by law firms because they telephone us to ask permission from time to time to print them off. We have also been advised by candidates going for interviews that the questions have been on the table in front of them. Other sources on the internet include http://www.wikijobs.co.uk/ and http://www.interview-skills.co.uk/ . We strongly recommend the latter website because it contains over 200 questions in a compe...

"Tell me how you would market our firm if you joined us". No.1 Interview Question for the Recession? Horrible interview questions do not come much worse... I have recently asked this question in a range of interviews for a fairly heavy sales & marketing role and been astonished at the complete lack of ideas that most of the candidates had. It is true that perhaps some people would be wary to give any information for fear of the firm using it without employing them, but so many people do not seem able to grasp the need for sales & marketing at the forefront of most of the job vacancies and interviews currently taking place in the legal profession. We advise candidates to do the following: 1. Have an idea in your mind of possible opportunities and potential techniques for sourcing work. If you have a look through the back articles in the Legal Recruitment online magazine , it will give you some ideas. 2. Offer to produce a mini-business plan if the firm is interested i...

Ten Percent Legal Recruitment has been at the forefront of online recruitment since 2000, introducing the UK’s first agency candidate database for law firms to look through and see which candidates we have on the books and to request CVs for them. We have decided for 2010 to introduce a new way of working which probably suits small to medium firms who may be looking to recruit more than once within a 12 month period. For a one of fee we will allow you to contact (via us) as many candidates as you want to through our database, whether by letter, e-mail or telephone, and to recruit without any further charge . The service will not give you direct access to our candidates and it preserves the candidate’s anonymity until they give consent for you to know who they are. Once authorised, you get to see a CV for each candidate as well as a brief description outlining their skills and experience. You can also communicate with the candidate without them knowing who you are and vice versa. For ...

Legal Job Market Summary - 11th January 2010 As one would expect, December slowed down considerably in the run up to Christmas. However, again we have seen vacancies coming into us, including conveyancing, wills & probate, family, commercial litigation, crime and housing. These are not the usual emails from large firms with a multitude of parties being sent the same jobs, but actual vacancies from small and medium sized practices. The geographical mix of vacancies shows that the regions are at present starting to pick up before London and the Home Counties. The majority of the posts have been spread across the UK, but because of the overspill of London into neighbouring areas the Home Counties are taking longer to get back up to speed. Over Christmas, as candidates make New Year resolutions to move, we are seeing increasing numbers of grade A candidates registering with us, including for example a senior commercial property solicitor with a following and looking for a salary of abo...

HAPPY NEW YEAR FOR 2010 - We hope that you all have a prosperous and peaceful New Year and look forward to working with you in 2010. Best Wishes from the Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment Team (Hannah, Pete, Sara, Jonathan, Pearl and Clare). I hope to update the blog more often in 2010, and plan to add sections both to the blog and also to the website in 2010, with toolkits for CV preparation and checks, marketing and speculative search plans, interview guidance including online interview practice tools.

Christmas is almost upon us, and I take the opportunity to provide a list of possible Christmas presents for lawyers and recruitment consultants, as well as shamelessly plug our own Christmas present ideas for solicitors, barristers, paralegals and anyone else. Firstly, www.ten-percent.co.uk/cv.html Gift Vouchers for Careers & CV Writing Services, ranging from £25 to £500. What could be a better present than one that could last a lifetime... www.cafepress.co.uk - lots of interesting T Shirts and cups and things - including a baby outfit with "my mummys a lawyer" - would anyone really be brave enough to send their child off to nursery in this? http://www.carbolicsmokeball.com/catalog/287/Large_Carbolic_Smoke_Ball_Advert_(Unframed_Print)/ This is by far the best present I have seen - a large poster sized version of the Smoke Ball advert - I bet this gets sold to loads of 1st year law students every year.. A bargain at £20.00. (incidentally we dont get any commission for t...

This Article ought to be subtitled “permanent recruitment” as opposed to “temporary recruitment” because as far as I can see the temporary recruitment side of the business is very unlikely to suffer many effects under the recession. Permanent recruitment has always been the more risky end of the business in relation to effects of recession. I can remember starting my consultancy Ten Percent Legal Recruitment back in April 2000 and speaking to an educated lady who was working as a police station visitor at the time, who when I said that I had set up a recruitment agency replied “you had better hope there is not a recession if you are doing permanent recruitment”. At the time I did not think much of this as we had just about finished the Dot.com bubble burst and things were on the up, but I have always remembered her words and wondered if they would ever come to fruition. Of course in the recent recession they clearly have. Permanent recruitment dropped off dramatically as soon as the re...