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Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment | Legal Recruitment Consultants and Legal Careers Advisers Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Frequently asked questions about the service provided by Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment for solicitors and other lawyers looking for legal jobs. Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment: FAQ's
ten-percent.co.uk is a website exclusively for lawyers looking for new positions, and firms wishing to employ lawyers. The site also offers careers services for law students and lawyers, as well as legal support services including CV preparation. Legal recruitment consultants are in effect employment agencies attempting to locate and source new opportunities for lawyers. They work by advertising for lawyers to register with them, and then charging firms for the privilege of an introduction to the lawyers. Agencies tend to be reserved for lorry drivers and pickle factory operatives, but the principle is the same. Headhunters are consultants who either network source or cold call source (depending on your level of cynicism) lawyers and try to persuade them to change firms with offers of high salary or better terms. Most recruitment consultants offer a headhunting service and call it "search and selection". What is the Exclusive Job Finder Service? In the years we have been operating, we have noticed that we are often able to locate a large number of opportunities for certain solicitor candidates. To assist you with a full and detailed search for work, we offer a new service called the "Exclusive Job Finder Service", through which we will undertake to do the following:
In return you undertake with us:
We require you to apply for this service by clicking here. We do not intend to bind you to any agreement, and neither do we give any warranty to you that the service will be successful. Only a select number of candidates will be accepted for this service, as we must be confident ourselves that you have the necessary attributes and experience for us to spend a significant amount of time searching, sourcing and locating opportunities. Why should I register with you? We are a specialist recruitment consultancy, concentrating specifically on solicitors in private practice (with some in-house and local authority opportunities as well) in the UK and abroad. We have an ethical policy, an environmental policy, a privacy policy, we donate 10% of our annual profits to charity and we are good at securing and locating new opportunities for lawyers registered with us. Read our feedback page for comments from previous service-users. ten-percent is also managed by solicitors. Why do recruitment consultants exist? Good question! Partly because there is a nationwide shortage of a certain standard of lawyer, and secondly, because finding a new opportunity is not often simply a case of looking in the Law Society Gazette at the situations vacant page. At any one time, there may be 6 or 7 adverts for a particular area of the country, but we will know that 25 to 50 firms in that area have vacancies but not advertised them. Firms do not advertise partly because they know that consultants can assist, and secondly because the cost of advertising is prohibitive for the return they will get. It can take up to 2 years to get a vacancy filled in some areas of the country. How many agencies should I register with? How long is a piece of string? We cannot answer this question with any authority because we would like it if you only registered with us! It depends on your circumstances. A quick example may assist. If you are a duty solicitor in Manchester, looking for positions in Manchester City Centre, there are about 35 firms you could apply to for work. If you register with 3 agencies, each one will send either your full CV, anonymous details or a briefing letter to each firm, causing a headache for both you and the firm. We would advise you not to register with more than one agency to begin with if you are one of the following: High Street Conveyancing (NQ-Partner), Crime (solicitor with police station accreditation or duty solicitor status), Family (SFLA or Law Society panel member), PI or clinical negligence (2 yrs PQE), Mental Health (if panel member), Wills & Probate/Private Client (NQ-10yrs PQE). Commercial Commercial Property (NQ-4 yrs PQE), Corporate finance (1-8yrs PQE), Banking (2-5yrs PQE), Clinical Negligence (2-4yrs PQE), Tax (1-4yrs PQE), Shipping (2-4yrs PQE) If you are not one of the above, you should register with one agency to begin with, allow them 2 weeks to make any necessary enquiries, and then think about registering with others if the first has been unsuccessful. If you live in a remote area, such as North Devon, North Lincolnshire or the Lake District, we would recommend allowing at least 3 weeks before registering with anyone else. Post Qualification Experience (or equivalent for legal executives or non-qualified staff). Newly qualified (solicitors) What are your ethical policies? We are yet to formulate these in any great detail, but we have a privacy policy, our 10% donation to charity each year, our commitment to the Which? Code of Online Trading, our soon to be published environmental policy, and an assurance that we believe in equal opportunities for all, regardless of disability, race, religion, colour, age or creed. I am a law graduate seeking a training contract - can you assist? No, is the simple answer. We get on average 5 completed applications each day from students and non-qualified paralegals without 6 months experience asking for our assistance. We cannot assist because firms do not want to pay an external source to find trainees when the market is so overloaded with potential lawyers! We can assist with careers advice, either as paid consultants, or on a questions by email basis (no charge). Click here to visit our careers centre I am a law graduate seeking paralegal work - can you assist? Sometimes, yes. It depends on your experience. You must have 6 months paid experience (can be unpaid if of sufficient quality in a law practice) and be looking for permanent paralegal work. We avoid locum and temporary work wherever possible. Click here to visit our careers centre I have a legal career-related question for you Great! Send it through to us at cv@tenpercent.co.uk We will try to respond within 24 hours but this is not always possible if we are busy. You can also visit our careers centre. What do you charge firms for your services? We charge the firms (not the candidates) 15% of a first year salary with an extra fee for any bonus schemes, pension contributions, car allowances etc.. in most circumstances, although our fees can vary depending on a particular case. We own a number of websites but all fees are the same regardless of salary, experience and location. We believe that we are the only legal recruitment agency on the web to have an open policy so far as our fees are concerned. You can view our standard terms and conditions which are available online by clicking here What is an accredited police station representative? We get asked this question on a regular basis by paralegals and overseas lawyers. The police station accreditation scheme was introduced in the 1990's in England and Wales, after solicitors were accused of sending their secretaries down to the police station to sit with murder suspects, and did not really understand their role at the station, which should be proactive. A particularly notorious case was in Cardiff when a solicitor sat through questioning whilst a detective asked a suspect whether he had committed the murder over 100 times and subjected him to constant interviewing without a break. The Law Society began to develop guidelines, and soon a recognised qualification emerged. You do not need to be qualified, but you must have a firm with whom you can undertake the training. The cost is about £500 for the examinations, which consist of a written portfolio of cases you have experienced, written exam for some levels of candidates, and an oral exam. This is a tough test, and the rewards for passing it are that you can undertake police station work (which may or may not be considered a benefit when you are sat at a police station at 2am on a Sunday morning with a particularly smelly client!). It takes between 3 and 12 months to complete this qualification. If a solicitor wants to join the duty solicitor rota, he or she now has to obtain this qualification at some stage in the same way as non-qualified representatives. We cannot assist with the training or courses on offer, and recommend that you do an internet search for police station law to read more about the scheme, and perhaps visit the CLT website at www.clt.co.uk for details of courses offered. Which areas of law do you cover? Everything, anywhere in the world, if we get instructions from firms and candidates. Our main areas where we do most business are with small to medium sized firms either on the high street, or in niche commercial practice in the city or regional area. Although we have links and dealings with larger city firms and regional practices, we are not so busy in these areas. We have however dealt with companies as diverse as offshore private practice, in-house departments, charities, local authorities, licensed conveyancers and international internet law practices. Do you assist with moves overseas? Yes, although we are not specialists in the area. As we build we will create more links, and it is hoped at some stage to establish an Australian Ten-Percent as well as a European office. Do you really donate 10% of your profits to charity? Yes. In our first year we donated £500 to a local childrens hospice. This was more than 10%. In our second year we donated around £1,800 and by our fifth year of trading we had donated about £15,000 to charitable causes. We established a charitable trust called the Ten-Percent Foundation in 2002 and this has two external trustees and one internal. The trust has a number of aims and further details can be found by clicking here. Our employees are encouraged to spend time on community related projects which in the past have included dry-stone walling on a local nature reserve. I have a service I wish to advertise to lawyers - can you assist? Yes - we have a shopping mall for lawyers, and would be delighted to discuss your service with you. I want to know what salary I should be getting. Contact us by email and ask us what we think! Alternatively visit our careers centre by clicking here. There is no obligation to use any of our services. Do you prepare or advise on resumes or CV's? Yes - visit our CV pages by clicking here.
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