Reading Time: < 1 minuteSummary Each month we run a comparison between the last calendar month and the same time period in 2018 to see if there has been any noticeable difference in view of the political uncertainty. In January 2019 we saw a decrease of 52% in new permanent vacancies compared with January 2018. The number of new…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAdvice A very common interview question and a fairly easy one to answer. There is only one answer of course which is yes as anyone who is unable to work under pressure is unlikely to get offered a job in any situation or profession. You can perhaps give specific examples of times when you have…
Reading Time: 2 minutesSummary As ever we undertake a comparison between the last calendar month and the same time period in 2018 to see if there has been any noticeable difference, particularly with the current political uncertainty. In December 2018 we saw an increase of 58% in the number of new permanent vacancies registered compared with December 2017.…
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…
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe have recently been approached by a law firm based in Abu Dhabi asking us to assist them in the provision of barristers or solicitors to work in their law firm. The tone of the email is very straightforward, the firm sound a very nice practice to work for, and the person who has emailed…
Reading Time: 2 minutesYou probably expect that an author of such an article on a subject like this with close links to the recruitment industry would give an answer to say ‘yes of course you should’, but it does really depend on the circumstances. There are of course a lot of honourable and decent people in the world…
Reading Time: 2 minutesNew Locum Lawyers Click here to book a locum or call 0800 246 5001. CAN-28897 Twickenham 15 year PQE personal injury solicitor available for locum assignments in the Greater London region. CAN-28898 Southend-on-Sea 2 year PQE conveyancing solicitor available for locum assignments in the Essex and North London areas. CAN-28899 Working from home – Scottish…
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen you write a CV of any kind, particularly in the area of work we are based in, which is for the legal profession, it is important not to exaggerate any detail on the CV, regardless of how irrelevant or insignificant it may seem at the time. Exaggerating can come back to haunt you at…
Reading Time: 2 minutesSummary As ever we undertake a comparison between the last calendar month and the same time period in 2017 to see if there has been any noticeable difference, particularly with the current political uncertainty. In November 2018 we saw an increase of 9% in the number of new solicitors registering compared with November 2018. The…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This is a particular type of question where you need to have a number of examples of work you have undertaken in the past or present that can be tailored according to the question asked. You need to think of specific examples where potentially you have completed a task well. However because this was…
Reading Time: 2 minutesI don’t know about your business, but in ours on a daily basis we have to deal with some really pompous arses. I don’t like using bad language when writing articles, but there really is no other way of describing some of the people we come across each day. The definition of a pompous arse…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAdvice Although this is a closed question with potentially a simple yes or no answer, it does give you the opportunity to get over to the interviewer how you are quite comfortable working on your own and to demonstrate specific examples of times you have perhaps introduced new methods of working or increased sales through…
Reading Time: 3 minutesNew Locum Lawyers CAN-28884 Swindon 10 year PQE In House Corporate & Commercial Solicitor available for locum assignments. Expertise in regulated financial services, contentious and non-contentious work, structuring, drafting and negotiating high value complex contracts, tender applications, IT, procurement, finance and product development, negotiating third party and supplier contracts for the purchase of services and…
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe recently had an instance where a solicitors firm interviewed three or four different solicitors for a role, which was relatively well paid and required a particular level of expertise. The partners saw four candidates at interview and made a decision after the interviews to recruit one of these. They immediately emailed the unsuccessful candidates…
Reading Time: 3 minutesRecruitment rule 223: Never, ever return to an employer you have just told that you will be leaving. Here’s the scenario; you get despondent at work and decide to look around for a new job. A firm offer you a role after you have attended interviews, you like the look of the new company, they…
Reading Time: 4 minutesNew Locum Lawyers Contact InterimLawyers.co.uk with your requirements. CAN-28838 Portsmouth 15 year PQE Litigation Solicitor available for locum assignments in the Hampshire region. General civil litigation, employment law, criminal law, in-house, regulatory, local government, commercial contracts work covered. CAN-28849 Chelmsford 5 year PQE Solicitor available for locum assignments in the Essex and London areas. Housing,…
Reading Time: 2 minutesSummary As ever we undertake a comparison between the last calendar month and the same time period in 2017 to see if there has been any difference, particularly with the current political uncertainty. In October 2018 we saw an increase of 47% in the number of new solicitors registering compared with October 2017. This is…
Reading Time: 4 minutesNew Locum Lawyers Contact InterimLawyers.co.uk with your requirements. Conveyancing Locums immediately available. CAN-28822 Birmingham 15 year PQE Commercial Solicitor available for locum assignments in the Midlands. general commercial, in-house, insolvency, corporate finance and commercial litigation covered. CAN-28824 Guildford 20 year PQE Family Law and Wills & Probate Solicitor available for locum assignments in the Surrey…
Reading Time: 3 minutesNew Locum Lawyers Contact InterimLawyers.co.uk with your requirements. CAN-28786 3 year PQE Company Commercial Solicitor available for locum assignments in the Cambridge area and surrounds. CAN-28788 15 year PQE Residential Conveyancing Solicitor available for locum assignments in the London region. CAN-28797 14 year PQE Conveyancing Solicitor available for locum assignments in the Buckinghamshire region and…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This is a question involving the STAR technique and another example of a question where you need to have specific projects and incidents stored in your brain ready to be adapted to answer these questions. The author of this article thinks that this approach to interviewing is not particularly good or effective. The technique…
Reading Time: 2 minutesSummary In recent months there has been a lot of political uncertainty and we were curious to see whether this had been reflected in the legal job market. Each month we undertake a comparison with the same time period in 2017 to see if there has been any difference. The job market was busier in…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice Preferably you will have been asked this question with just the well as opposed to the badly bit as it is a general rule in interviews that wherever possible you try to avoid any negative comment or thought about anything. It does make a difference to the perception of the interviewer if you focus…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This is a loaded question and one you need to be very careful about answering. If you are applying for a junior post, for example a training contract with a solicitors’ firm, you really should not be giving any indication at this stage of an interest to specialise in. You simply do not know…