Suitable for Non-Qualified Lawyers, including Law Students & Graduates, entrants to the legal profession, Trainee Solicitors, Barristers without Pupillage, postgraduate law students (LPC and BPTC), Legal Secretaries, Fee Earners and Clerks. If you are a qualified lawyer please click here. All CVs are prepared by a qualified solicitor, recruitment consultant and legal career coach with over 10 years experience. The service includes:

 

• CV Writing Service - 1st draft, 2nd draft and final version.
• Unlimited amendments for 12 months.
• 1 Covering Letter review.

 

What does 'CV preparation service' mean?

The CV Preparation service offers you the chance to have your CV prepared by a professional CV writer with lengthy experience of lawyer and law student recruitment. All our CVs are personally prepared by Jonathan Fagan LLM Cert RP MIRP MAC Solicitor (non-practising) and MD of Ten-Percent.

Jonathan has been preparing CV's for solicitors, barristers, trainee solicitors and law graduates/students for over 10 years and has worked with a range of clients from senior partners of Legal 500 law firms down to law students looking for work experience. Jonathan is the author of 'How to Write a Legal CV' and 'the Legal CV Writing Pack'. He lectures at post-graduate level on CV's and legal careers and has personally coached over 500 executives in a range of industries on behalf of the Department of Work and Pensions.

We are a specialist legal careers service, operated by Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment, a specialist online legal recruitment consultancy.

We can prepare your CV for you to help you stand out from the crowd. We have prepared CV's for a wide range of people, from partners of large city law firms to law students who are completing their A-levels.

 

How does the service work?

You pay for the service online using our secure online facilities (there are also provisions to pay by telephone or by post). We send you an internet link to our CV preparation pages, where you complete an online questionnaire. We prepare a CV for you in draft form, together with relevant careers advice. You can also send us your Covering Letter to review. 

  

How long does it take?

We guarantee a return time once you have made payment, which is usually within 5 working days from start to completing the final draft.

 

What if I am not satisfied with the CV?

In each and every case we guarantee to refund your payment in full if you are not satisfied with the CV we have provided. Your statutory rights are not affected. 

 

How do I send you my details for the CV to be prepared? 

Online form submission or via email. We do not offer the service by post or fax. 

 

Is it suitable for me?

If you are one of the following, applying for positions in law firms the service is suitable: 

 

Barristers (without pupillage) - looking for pupillage or completing the BVC.

Paralegals and other unqualified Lawyers, whether you have 3 months or 30 years experience.

Students (LPC, LLB, CPE, PGDipLaw, BPTC) intending to apply for legal positions, whether vacation work, voluntary work, training contracts, paralegal positions or pupillage. This also includes Graduates from the courses who have not yet qualified as solicitors, ILEX or barristers.

Trainee Legal Executives

 

I am applying for charity, in-house, local authority or overseas positions - can you assist?

Yes - we prepare CV's for clients intending to practise in these fields. We have prepared CVs for clients in China, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Malaysia, the USA and Australia. 

 

How do I know you will advise correctly?

We have a vast amount of experience of preparing and advising on CV's for lawyers and law students and we offer the service to allow you to gain a head start when looking for work by ensuring that the content and layout of your CV are acceptable. We are specialists at preparing content for a legal CV, which is the most important part.  

 

What have other service users thought of the service?

This is what one satisfied customer had to say about the service: 

"Thank you ever so much for all your comments and advice. I shall let you know if I am successful in securing a training contract. Thank you once again - I shall definitely recommend this service".

To view further feedback on our CV Preparation Service from lawyers and law students, please click here.