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CV Blooper of the Month Extract from Paralegal's CV - more "incomprehensible waffle" than a "blooper" but included nevertheless! Profile: I am a highly motivated, focused, determined, enthusiastic person with a sophisticated acquaintance of grasping beyond what individuals reckon in a brief conversation. Startling communication skills that allow me as an interlocutor to predict and endeavour to persuade clients. I have a confident pro active character which enables me to use my own initiative at work, a stereotypic ideas changer with ability of generating new ones. I can work proactively in a complex and busy environment. I am a quick learner who is able to absorb new ideas. HR departments - seen any good bloopers recently? Send them over to cv@ten-percent.co.uk and if I publish them I'll send you a £10 Waterstones voucher by way of thanks. Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Sol...

Is your career stuck in a rut? If you are going into work feeling thoroughly miserable and hating every minute of it, here are some tips for strapping a proverbial rocket to your back and changing your life. 1. Hand in your notice. Go on - you can do it. All it takes is a few words "I resign" or "I'm off to find a job where I am actually appreciated and get paid more than an intern". You could even tell the senior partner what you really think of him/her but this is not recommended as your reference may not be very nice. 2. Write down three things you would love to do in the next two months. Close your eyes and pick one at random. Go and do it. 3. Study for a degree in something you actually like. So many solicitors do LLB Law without actually enjoying a minute of it, whereas they would probably have loved doing a history degree or a politics degree. Its never too late - go and do one. 4. Close your eyes - try to picture yourself in your dream jo...

CV Blooper of the Month Extract from Senior Solicitor's CV - 30 years experience. Education - O Levels in English, Math’s, Geography, History HR departments - seen any good bloopers recently? Send them over to cv@ten-percent.co.uk and if I publish them I'll send you a £10 Waterstones voucher by way of thanks. Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Solicitor. Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides online Legal Recruitment for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals . Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database.

Facebook Advertising - any good? I could cut this article very short by saying no, but here is a bit extra. You can advertise your law firm on Facebook to a very wide audience simply by clicking a few links, adding a credit card and bingo! You have pay per click or view advertising on Facebook. We have been on Facebook for many years and my advertising budget is currently set at something like £5 per day. However - some fairly startling facts for you! Between 2008 and 2017 we spent the grand total of £10.66 on advertising on Facebook. That's £10.66 in total, not per day. This is based on how many people have clicked our adverts. To put this into perspective - in the same time frame on Google Adwords we spent just short of £39,000. I should add that the very low advertising spend is not through the want of trying - its just that people do not use Facebook for business. We are planning an experiment to test this theory. If I post a vacancy on the internet, acr...

CV Bloopers of the Month Full CV received from a 10 year PQE Solicitor applying for a commercial solicitor role in London. [Name Address Email, Phone] Personal statement I like to provide service to the highest standard. I used to have very high marks for essays. I worked in Legal departments of local authority and many large law firms. Work Experience Solicitor Responsibilities & Achievements - sole practitioner CV sent for a training contract application "Work Experience I work from 12 years old. Any salesmanship and last 4 years as store manager." (no other details provided) Jonathan Fagan is Managing Director of Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising Solicitor. Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides online Legal Recruitment for Solicitors, Legal Executives, Fee Earners, Support Staff, Managers and Paralegals . Visit our Website to search our Vacancy Database.

How long will LinkedIn last? Who knows? I imagine something else will come along sooner or later that does the same thing bigger and better. LinkedIn restricts certain access (eg contacting other people requires using up a limited number of contact credits) and I suspect another network will come along and do the same thing with free access and consign LinkedIn to the dustbin. You would probably expect me to write something similar to the information below as it is in my company’s interest for you not to go directly to candidates and instead ask us to help you recruit and get paid a wodge of cash. However LinkedIn has been promoted as the next best thing in so many articles and advice documents recently (including whole courses on how to use it to recruit) that I thought an article injected with a bit of reality and anecdotal evidence may be of interest. Here is a conversation I have on the phone from time to time. Caller: “Hello can I speak to Jonathan Fagan pl...

Unique Opportunity for a Clean Break - Offshore Law Firm for sale/partnership Ref VAC 17235 Very rare chance to take partnership in an offshore law firm. The practice undertakes a range of work that includes (properly funded) legal aid crime work - which is fairly lucrative without much competition, family and commercial. The crime work is a mix of mainstream general crime, some specialist complex matters and some military. The firm would be interested in speaking to anyone looking to run their own practice on a full time or part time basis. Not necessarily seeking an immediate buyout or purchase of equity. Opportunity to benefit from profitable levels of legal aid rather than punitive. Owner looking to move on to non-law related pastures new and move back on shore. Well established law firm in a stunning location offshore. Very similar law to England and Wales. Current partner happy to stay in situ to assist or sell outright. All options available for purchase - i...