One of the key issues in relation to offering flexible hours and remote working is the attitude of well established law firm owners, particularly in the smaller sized SME sector, where the recruiting partner or manager is very often the owner of the practice.
Can a lawyer be a millionaire? Article by Jonathan Fagan, MD of Ten Percent Legal Recruitment and a non-practising solicitor.
How to negotiate a pay rise and how to deal with a request for a pay rise – article by Ten Percent Legal Recruitment for solicitors and employers.
Do legal CVs in the 2020s need to be completely revamped and have a specific format because of the way most CVs are now processed by potential employers? – eg keywords, applicant tracking systems ATS, videos and online information.
Returning to law, changing fields of law or starting out in law – what do I need to do? Get work experience. Article by Ten Percent Legal.
Ten top tips for interviewing techniques – a guide for employers from Jonathan Fagan, MD of Ten Percent Legal Recruitment and Interim Lawyers.
10 Top Tips for Interviews – candidate guide from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment, solicitor recruitment specialists in the UK.
Interview Question and Answer 52 – Why haven’t you had many interviews? An article including an example answer from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
Interview Question 51 – Give an example of how a situation or project that had a positive outcome depended on the work of people – suggested answer.
Our experiences (as business owners and legal recruiters) of providing rewards and benefits to our employees and those we see in the legal profession.
How to explain away bad things on CVs (or not) – article from Jonathan Fagan at Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
Legal Job Interview Question & Answer from Jonathan Fagan, MD of Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
Full CV Review – LLB Graduate Administrator – from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
Give an example of a project or task that you felt compelled to complete on your own. What stopped you from delegating? Answer from Ten Percent Legal
A free legal CV review for an LPC student. The LPC student has given us permission to provide advice with their name redacted. For details of our CV Review service, please visit www.ten-percent.uk – our legal careers site.
CV for Final Year Law Student – Free CV Review from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment and Ten Percent Legal Careers Services.
Article outlining experience of age discrimination from a legal recruitment perspective. Jonathan Fagan of Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
How to frame a commercial contracts manager job title when the work is as in-house legal counsel dealing with commercial contracts.
Interview question and answer – explain the organisational structure in your last company and how you fitted into it? Advice from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
I have been awarded a third class degree in law and I am having a crisis. Help! Article from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment. Don’t panic.
Interview Question 47 – Do you work well with others, or are you a loner? Suggested answer from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
Getting into commercial work after doing a high street training contract, is it possible? Article from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment and Jonathan Fagan MD.
Advice This is a very loaded question and one that has been asked in interviews up and down the country with the wrong answer given on numerous occasions. During a range of practice interviews I have regularly asked this question and been amazed at the response given. Interviewees often think it is the chance to…
I am available for locum work but I don’t have my own limited company – will I have to work on a PAYE basis? No. An article by Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
Interview question on self-motivation and suggested answers from Jonathan Fagan at Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
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?
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 questions and answers from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment – working for someone younger than you.
Help to get a training contract – advice from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment, specialists for the legal profession since 2000.
Interview question and answer on knowing how to motivate people.