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Advice for Australian Lawyers looking to work in the UK
I am sure in Australia lawyers often see adverts from recruitment agents telling them of shortages in the legal profession in the UK and particularly law fields. This has been the case in years gone past in the Law Society Gazette in England...
How Badly do you want a Training Contract? Test Yourself
People often get in touch to say that they are looking for a training contract and will do anything to get one. Really? I can almost guarantee that in the majority of these cases if we were to push them further on this they would not have...
Taking Up References
The decision to give references is sometimes quite complicated.
Firms have requested references before second interviews, including requests to speak to current employers (!) and colleagues. Alternatively some firms ask for references prior...
Is the Legal Job Market Cyclical?
We notice whenever there is World Cup, a serious incident in world politics, Christmas Parties, Christmas shopping, New Years resolution season, NQ qualification season and so forth that the legal job market in a good year will suddenly get...
Application Forms – Solicitors detest them!
It has become the industry standard that once you are past the training level of the profession, the way to apply for the vast majority of posts, apart from local authority ones, is via a CV. In fact, most firms who have tried to use application...
Making a Job Application after 25 years in the same post
We often get very senior solicitors and executives registering with us, and needing to make an application for work after many years in the same post and wondering what on earth they need to do.
Very often these candidates send a CV through...
Returning to the Legal Profession
A common issue, especially for mothers (and some fathers) who have taken time off to raise a family and now want to return to work after 2,5 or 10 years.
In some fields of law this is not too difficult. Firms are becoming more aware of the...