Interview Question & Answer 45 – Do you need other people around to stimulate you or are you self-motivated?
Interview question on self-motivation and suggested answers from Jonathan Fagan at Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
Careers Advice
Locums Covering More Than One Field of Law
We often get partners of law firms contacting us to request details of locums who are able to do conveyancing and wills and probate, residential and commercial conveyancing and many more besides. Is it feasible?
CV Review for Newly Qualified Solicitor
Free CV Review for a Newly Qualified Solicitor from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment – legal careers and CV writing services for lawyers and law graduates.
Interview Question 44 – Do you mind working for someone older than yourself? Younger than you?
Interview questions and answers from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment – working for someone younger than you.
Help – I Can’t Get a Training Contract – What Am I Doing Wrong?
Help to get a training contract – advice from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment, specialists for the legal profession since 2000.
Interview Question and Answer – Do you know how to motivate other people?
Interview question and answer on knowing how to motivate people.
Should I go back and re-sit my A levels (DDD) – I want to join a Magic Circle law firm
Should I go back and re-sit my A levels (DDD) in order to get into a Magic Circle law firm? Advice from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
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Legal Recruitment News February 2021
Legal Recruitment News from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment for February 2021. Includes legal job market reports, hourly rate guides for locums, video CVs, independent legal advice service, redoing A levels to join city law firms.
What is the Difference Between an Employment Business and an Employment Agency?
Difference between Employment Agency and Employment Business. Article by Jonathan Fagan, Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
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Legal Recruitment News January 2021
Legal Recruitment News includes a legal job market report, hourly rates guide for locums, a state of the market report for the sale of law firms and articles on job interviews, buying a law firm for nothing and interview techniques. January 2021 edition.
Interview Question 42 – Do you feel you are ready to take on greater responsibilities?
Interview Question and suggested answer from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment and Jonathan Fagan MD.
Legal Job Interview Techniques – The Fake Receptionist
Job Interview Technique – using a fake receptionist to root out bad employees attending for interview. Article by Jonathan Fagan of Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
Legal Job Market Report January 2021
Legal Job Market Report for January 2021 from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
CV Review – Commercial Paralegal with Experience
CV review for a paralegal with commercial law experience. A free review service from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
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?
Student with low A levels and poor degree grades – should they even bother trying to establish themselves in the legal profession or whether they have scuppered their chances with their grades and need to look elsewhere.
Interview Question and Answer 41 – Do You Enjoy Travelling?
Interview question and suggested answer from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment – do you enjoy travelling? A loaded question.
Getting Your Legal CV Noticed
Writing a CV and applying for a legal job can be a very simple thing to do, but writing a CV for a legal job and getting it noticed by a potential employer is a different matter entirely.
CV Review for LPC Student Looking to Stand Out from the Crowd
CV Review for an LPC Student looking to make her CV stand out from the crowd. Free Service from Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment.
Interview Question & Answer no.40 – Do You Consider Yourself Successful?
Do you consider yourself successful?
Legal Job Market Report November 14th 2020
Legal job market report from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment for November 2020.
CV Review – Legal Profession Entrant from Elite Sport Background
CV Review for legal profession entrant with sports background. Part of the free CV review service from Ten Percent Legal. We review, we blog about it. You get a free review!
Does my first year at university matter?
Do 1st year university results matter? An article with full advice from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment with particular emphasis on law students.
Tailoring a CV for Job Applications – How Important is it?
Tailoring a CV – how important is it? A discussion with Ten Percent Legal Recruitment about senior lawyers and their CVs (and the lack of information).
Locums Reluctant to Take Office Based Roles since July 2020
locums are now very reluctant to take assignments that involve any or all of the time being based in an office rather than working remotely. An article by Interim Lawyers Legal Recruitment.
Legal Job Market Report 17th September 2020
Legal Job Market Report dated 17th September 2020 from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
CV Review for an Overseas Law Student
Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment provides free CV reviews (at our discretion), provided you are happy for your CV to be posted on the internet with our advice. This is a review for an overseas law student from South Africa.
CV Review for an Overseas Lawyer – India
This is a CV review for an overseas lawyer from India from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
CV Review for Overseas Lawyer (South Africa)
CV review for a South African overseas lawyer by Ten Percent Legal Recruitment. Free CV reviews for all lawyers.
My Nickname is “The Wolf”. A good idea to include this on my CV?
Should you include your nickname on your CV? An article by Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
Legal Recruitment News July 2020
Legal Recruitment News from Ten Percent Legal. Professional Indemnity Insurance for Locums, the state of the Conveyancing job market, senior solicitors risk of redundancy, Legal Job Market Report and July 2020 hourly rates for locums.