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Solicitors looking for work – new candidate update 1st May 2019

Reading Time: 3 minutesGreater London CAN-29233 Company Commercial Paralegal with experience in commercial contracts, litigation and banking law, GDPR and data protection. Looking for a post in London. CAN-29234 Senior In House Lawyer with 10 years experience. Experience in litigation, company commercial law and IP with specific experience in the media & entertainment sector. Looking for posts in…

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New Solicitors looking for work 24th April 2019

Reading Time: 4 minutesPlease find below a list of solicitors registered with Ten Percent Legal in the past 14 days. Planning to recruit in 2019? Visit www.tenpercentunlimited.co.uk for our money-saving recruitment service. New Permanent Candidates CAN-29202 South East London 8 year PQE litigation solicitor dealing with civil and commercial litigation. Looking for posts in London. CAN-29198 West-Central London…

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New Solicitor Update 10th April 2019

Reading Time: 4 minutesNew Permanent Candidates CAN-29123 SE London 20 year PQE Property Solicitor dealing with all aspects of residential conveyancing. Looking for posts in South London. CAN-29124 10 year PQE Commercial Property Solicitor looking for a suitable role in the West or Central London areas. CAN-29131 Reading 20 year PQE In House Solicitor dealing with dispute resolution,…

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Legal Job Interview and Answer – describe a situation in which you have led a team.

Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This is a relatively easy question, mainly because the question is so short and gives you plenty of scope in terms of material and circumstances. It is likely that just about everybody can answer this question, whether through an example from work, an example from a sporting activity or personal interest or from their…

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Legal Job Interview Question and Answer – Describe a Situation in which you dealt with confrontation, for example a difficult customer?

Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This is an answer that most people can probably conjure up from somewhere as most of the workforce will have dealt with difficult customers. Everyone has had to deal with some sort of confrontation in their lives, whether in a sporting, academic or work environment. Try to think of a work-based example as these…

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Solicitors and Legal Executives – new candidates 27th March 2019

Reading Time: 3 minutesNew Permanent Candidates CAN-29107 Harrow NQ Solicitor with experience in corporate commercial law, commercial litigation, property litigation and commercial and residential property. Looking for a post in Middlesex or London. CAN-29103 Croydon 4 year PQE Family Law Solicitor looking for posts in and around South London. CAN-29100 Cardiff 10 year PQE Property Solicitor looking for…

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Shifting the Goalposts
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Locum Solicitors and the Curse of the Client’s Change of Plans

Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen you locum it is sometimes the case that the assignment you thought you were working on changes and the client shifts the goalposts quite dramatically. This doesn’t happen that often, particularly where a client has spoken directly to the locum to discuss the role beforehand, but it does happen. Recently we have come across…

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New Candidate Update 20th March 2019 Solicitors and Legal Executives

Reading Time: 3 minutesGood morning. Please find below a list of solicitors registered with Ten Percent Legal in the past 14 days. click here to register vacancies online, email jobs@ten-percent.co.uk or call 0800 246 5001. New Permanent Candidates CAN-29085 Guildford 15 year PQE Commercial Property Solicitor with experience working for Legal 500 firms. Looking for posts in Surrey…

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New Candidate Update 13th March 2019 from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment

Reading Time: 3 minutesNew Permanent Candidates CAN-29074 Ipswich Residential Conveyancer with over 5 years’ practical experience. Can manage all aspects of conveyancing from inception to registration without supervision. Solicitor. CAN-29073 Experienced Immigration Caseworker/Solicitor with Level 2 accreditation. Looking for a suitable role in Essex, North London or Central London. CAN-29065 6 month PQE Family Law Solicitor with exposure…

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Why do I never get offered job interviews – Top Tips for getting a job application noticed

Reading Time: 3 minutesEvery week we get lots of permanent vacancies and locum assignments from solicitors’ firms and in house legal departments. They’re often looking for a specific type of solicitor, with sufficient experience to do a specific job. Lets take a recent example. A firm in the South East of England are looking as follows: Permanent, Full…

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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?

Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This is a STAR competency based interview question. STAR stands for “Situation, Task, Action and Result” and this particular question is a strong example of where using this technique is so effective. Firstly it is probably almost impossible to answer this type of question without having thought about it before attending the interview. It…

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Legal Job Interview Question and Answer – describe a project or situation where you took a project to completion despite important opposition.

Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This type of question is competency based and involves using the STAR technique (Situation, Task, Action, Result). Manna from heaven for any Six Sigma practitioners or business change managers. For everyone else it is a very difficult question indeed as the majority of professionals do not spend their working lives dealing with conflict in…

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Barristers - riddled with nepotism?
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How to Work as a Lawyer in the UK – top tips

Reading Time: 4 minutesHere are the Ten Percent Legal Recruitment top tips for becoming a lawyer in the UK. Firstly, bear in mind that there are quite a few different types of lawyer working in the UK, including barristers, solicitors, “non-qualified fee earners”, legal executive, licensed conveyancer, will writers and paralegals. In case it assists, a “non-qualified fee…

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Candidate Update – New Solicitors 27th February 2019

Reading Time: 5 minutesNew Permanent Candidates CAN-29065 6 months PQE Solicitor with exposure to both complex financial litigation and children matters during training contract. Looking for a suitable role in the Greater London region. CAN-29033 15 year PQE Company Commercial Solicitor and in house legal counsel. Experience in commercial contracts and data protection. Looking for posts in West…

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New Candidate Update 13th February 2019

Reading Time: 4 minutesNew Permanent Candidates CAN-28986 0-1 year PQE Family and Child Care Solicitor with additional experience in wills. Looking for a post in London. CAN-28989 10 year PQE Immigration Solicitor with Level 2 accreditation and at Supervisory level looking for a suitable role in the Central or North London areas. CAN-29006 18 month PQE Company Commercial…

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Legal Job Interview Question and Answer – demonstrate an understanding of organisational issues

Reading Time: < 1 minuteDemonstrate an understanding of underlying organisational issues. AdviceA very difficult question if you are not used to dealing with managerial speak! This is a question involving the STAR technique of firstly identifying the situation, secondly identifying a specific task, thirdly identifying your action as part of that task and finally confirming what the result was.…

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New Candidate Update 30th January 2019 Solicitors, Legal Executives and Law Firms for Sale

Reading Time: 5 minutesNew Permanent Candidates CAN-28977 20 year PQE Solicitor specialising in banking and construction law. Looking for ideally in house posts in South Wales and surrounds. CAN-28986 West-Central London September 2018 qualified family and child care law solicitor with additional experience in will drafting. Looking for a post in London. CAN-28983 Dublin Irish solicitor open to…

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Solicitor and Legal Executive Candidate Update 23rd January 2019

Reading Time: 4 minutesNew Permanent Candidates CAN-28974 Highly experienced Wills & Probate Fee Earner with STEP qualification looking for a suitable role in the Berkshire area. 20+ years experience in the field. CAN-28960 Guildford NQ Employment Law Solicitor with contentious and non-contentious experience. Further experience in company commercial law an commercial litigation. Looking for posts in Surrey or…

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What to Expect From an In-House Legal Counsel Job Interview

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe first thing to say in relation to interviews for in-house roles is to expect the unexpected, because every company is governed by its HR department. If you have never worked in house before you will find that some HR departments seem to govern just about everything and come up with the most complex recruitment…

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New Solicitor and Legal Executive Update 16th January 2019

Reading Time: 5 minutesNew Permanent Candidates CAN-28946 North London 10+ year PQE Solicitor with expertise in conveyancing, wills & probate and Landlord & Tenant work looking for a suitable part-time role in the North or Central London areas. CAN-28930 Bromley Senior IT manager working at Head of Department level with 20 years experience looking for a role around…

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Boring Field of Law
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What is the most boring area of law?

Reading Time: 2 minutes“I don’t want to do that type of law, it’s boring” Unnamed Mental Health Law Paralegal, December 2018. This topic of conversation could keep law students and lawyers going for years to come, but today we had an email from a paralegal who was enquiring about a job. He asked what specific area of law…

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Demonstrate how you vary your communication approach according to the audience that you are addressing?

Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This question is probably more relevant to some professions and posts than others but in essence the answer has to be the same. You need to have at least 3 different examples of different types of audience you have had to speak to. For example a useful selection would be probably the workforce, the…

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What is the job of a Recruitment Consultant? The Day to Day Reality

Reading Time: 3 minutesA recruitment consultant is, at base level, someone who a potential employer consults to go through the process of recruitment a new employee or member of staff. A recruitment consultant will assist the employer, source, select and employ the right member of staff and in doing so, receives a fee. Over 99% of all recruitment…

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