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- Returning to law, changing fields of law or starting out in law – what do I need to do?
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- Job Interviews – 10 Top Tips for Candidates
- Interview Question and Answer 52 – Why haven’t you had many interviews?
- Interview Question 51 – Give an example of how a situation or project that had a positive outcome depended on the work of people from a wide range of backgrounds and ideas.
- Rewards & Benefits to Employees in the Legal Sector
- Sh*t Happens – Bad Things on CVs
- Interview Question & Answer 50 – Give an example of a recent commercial deal that captured your attention
- CV Review – LLB Graduate Administrator
- Interview Question & Answer 49 – Give an example of a project or task that you felt compelled to complete on your own. What stopped you from delegating?
- Legal CV Review for LPC Student – Free CV Review
- CV for Final Year Law Student – Free CV Review
- Is Age a Factor on My CV?
- Contract Manager or Legal Counsel – Tailoring Job Applications
- Interview Question 48 – Explain the organisational structure in your last company and how you fitted into it?
- I have been awarded a third class degree in law and I am having a crisis. Help!
- Interview Question & Answer – Do You Work Well with Others?
- Getting into commercial work after doing a high street training contract, is it possible?
- Interview Question 46 – Do you prefer to work in a small, medium or large company?
- I am available for locum work but I don’t have my own limited company – will I have to work on a PAYE basis?
- Interview Question & Answer 45 – Do you need other people around to stimulate you or are you self-motivated?
- CV Review for Newly Qualified Solicitor
- Interview Question 44 – Do you mind working for someone older than yourself? Younger than you?
- Help – I Can’t Get a Training Contract – What Am I Doing Wrong?
- Interview Question and Answer – Do you know how to motivate other people?
- Should I go back and re-sit my A levels (DDD) – I want to join a Magic Circle law firm
- Legal Recruitment News February 2021
- What is the Difference Between an Employment Business and an Employment Agency?
- Legal Recruitment News January 2021
- Interview Question 42 – Do you feel you are ready to take on greater responsibilities?
- Legal Job Interview Techniques – The Fake Receptionist
- CV Review – Commercial Paralegal with Experience
- My A levels are BDE and I have a couple of low percentages in my second year of a law degree. Should I give up now?
- Interview Question and Answer 41 – Do You Enjoy Travelling?
- Getting Your Legal CV Noticed
- CV Review for LPC Student Looking to Stand Out from the Crowd
- Interview Question & Answer no.40 – Do You Consider Yourself Successful?
- CV Review – Legal Profession Entrant from Elite Sport Background
- Does my first year at university matter?
- Tailoring a CV for Job Applications – How Important is it?
- Locums Reluctant to Take Office Based Roles since July 2020
- CV Review for an Overseas Law Student
- CV Review for an Overseas Lawyer – India
- CV Review for Overseas Lawyer (South Africa)
- My Nickname is “The Wolf”. A good idea to include this on my CV?
- Legal Recruitment News July 2020
- Conveyancing Lawyers – has your job been affected by the lockdown?
- Locums – have you ever been asked about PII?
- CV Review for a Postgraduate Law Student
- Business meetings – a thing of the past and is it normal to continue working during them?
- Can a Solicitor be a Millionaire – recent question
- Legal Recruitment News April 2020
- Furloughed? Spend an hour updating your CV – a guide
- Getting More Work
- What type of law pays the most?
- Interview Question 38 – Did you increase sales or profits in your last job?
- Interview Question 37 – Did you feel you progressed satisfactorily in your last job?
- A third class degree and re-entering the law
- Interview Question – did you enjoy university?
- Interview Question – Did your (university) course live up to expectations?
- Choosing the Spec for In House Lawyer Vacancies
- Interview Question 34 – Describe your strongest and weakest colleagues – how do you cope with such diverse personalities?
- Interview Question 33 – Describe the project or idea that you were most satisfied to sell to your management.
- Improve your CV in 5 minutes
- Inappropriate interview question – are you the type of person to cry if someone shouts at you?
- Interview Question and Answer – describe a time that you failed to sell an idea that you knew was the right one.
- Interview Question – Describe a time when you had a number of conflicting demands on your time and how you dealt with this.
- Recruitment agents hardly do anything other than send CVs – why should we pay you?
- Interview Question & Answer – Describe a time when you failed to engage at the right level in your organisation. Why did you do that and how did you handle the situation?
- Interview Question & Answers – Describe a situation where you worked as part of a team.
- Interview Question & Answer 28 – Describe a situation where you are asked to do something you had never attempted previously.
- Interview Question & Answer 27 – Describe a situation where you had to change your approach half way through a project or task following new input into the project.
- Can I apply for jobs without a CV?
- Interview Question and Answer – Describe a situation where you had a disagreement or an argument with a superior – how did you handle it?
- Interview Question: Describe a situation in which you have led a team.
- Negotiating for the sake of negotiating – the risks of haggling on salary during the job offer process
- Restrictive Covenants – recent Supreme Court ruling
- Legal Job Interview Question and Answer – Are you willing to travel?
- Legal Job Interview Question and Answer – are you satisfied with your academic achievements to date?
- What’s my business worth? The impossible question
- Legal Job Interview Question & Answer – are you prepared to relocate?
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- What do my South African qualifications count for in the UK? I am a South African qualified lawyer.
- Duty Solicitors in a Pickle – how not to get ripped off
- Legal Job Interview Question and Answer – describe a situation in which you were a member of a team – what did you do to positively contribute to it?
- Legal Job Interview Question and Answer – describe a situation in which you influenced or motivated people.
- Childcare Solicitors – what do they do and how do I become one?
- Solicitors – stuck in a rut?
- Legal Job Interview and Answer – describe a situation in which you have led a team.
- Legal Job Interview Question and Answer – Describe a Situation in which you dealt with confrontation, for example a difficult customer?
- Locum Solicitors and the Curse of the Client’s Change of Plans
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- Legal Job Interview Question and Answer – Describe a project where you needed to involve input from other departments – how did you identify that need and how did you ensure buy-in from the appropriate leaders and managers?