Getting Headhunted on LinkedIn
Reading Time: 3 minutesGetting headhunted on linkedin – too good to be true? Article on Linkedin headhunting from Jonathan Fagan, MD at Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
Changing Jobs
Should I become a locum solicitor? Deciding whether or not to take up locum work
Reading Time: 4 minutesAdvice on deciding whether or not to become a locum solicitor from Jonathan Fagan, MD at Ten Percent Legal Recruitment and Interim Lawyers.
Career Planning – Fine Tune your Career
Reading Time: 4 minutesFine tuning your career. 10 top tips from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment & Interim Lawyers for career planning.
Horrible Bosses and the January Phenomenon of Staff Giving Notice
Reading Time: 7 minutesHorrible bosses cause an exodus of staff every January, which is easily preventable by not being a horrible boss! Top tips for being a nicer person, a horrible bosses test and advice on not losing staff in January each year.
Careers Update – CV Discussions
Reading Time: 3 minutesCV advice and careers update from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment, work visas, offshore solicitors, video CVs and legal assistant transitions.
Changing from conveyancing to a life of crime – a good idea?
Reading Time: 3 minutesChanging from conveyancing to crime – a good idea? Advice for solicitors changing practice areas from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
I’m at a crossroads in my career, I’m 10 years qualified, and I’m fed up in my job. What should I do?
Reading Time: 4 minutesFed up with your legal career? An article packed full of advice for solicitors thinking about changing jobs or making a career move. Ten Percent Legal
I’ve been working from an office for 40 years, so why can’t others?
Reading Time: 4 minutesOne 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.
How to negotiate a pay rise and how to deal with a request for a pay rise
Reading Time: 4 minutesHow 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.
in Careers Advice, Changing Jobs, Job Applications, Training Contracts, Pupillage and Work Experience
Returning to law, changing fields of law or starting out in law – what do I need to do?
Reading Time: 4 minutesReturning 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.
Is Age a Factor on My CV?
Reading Time: 3 minutesArticle outlining experience of age discrimination from a legal recruitment perspective. Jonathan Fagan of Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
Getting into commercial work after doing a high street training contract, is it possible?
Reading Time: 3 minutesGetting into commercial work after doing a high street training contract, is it possible? Article from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment and Jonathan Fagan MD.
Negotiating for the sake of negotiating – the risks of haggling on salary during the job offer process
Reading Time: 3 minutesA couple of job offers recently have ended up in a stalemate situation between the employers and the employees. The employees have asked for a higher salary and the employers have taken umbrage at the fact the employees have asked the question. Here are our top 10 pieces of advice when considering negotiating on salary…
Restrictive Covenants – recent Supreme Court ruling
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor years we have very patiently advised clients contacting us to request solicitors with a following, ie the ability to bring their own work and files to a new firm, that there is the small matter of a Restrictive Covenant ever present in most contracts of employment. As anyone knows, you cannot simply walk out…
Solicitors – stuck in a rut?
Reading Time: 7 minutesYou are a solicitor who has been in your job for at least 3 years. You completed your training contract and then found a permanent job to move into. You may have moved once or twice since then and perhaps if you are on the high street you are probably earning between £30,000 and £45,000;…
Never accept a counter offer from your current employer after you hand in your notice
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…
Discrimination in Recruitment – is it rife?
Reading Time: 3 minutesI write this article from a personal perspective and it is an expression of opinion only. I often get asked by candidates if they think firms discriminate against them and this article is about our experiences of behaviour that is both overt and implied. Discrimination against Law Firms Law firms often think that as recruiters…
Restrictive Covenants – do they put employees off?
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe have recently introduced a candidate to an employer where a restrictive covenant was used which must surely fall foul of rather a lot of employment regulations! The role is a fairly junior fee earner position and not senior management or director level. The restrictive covenant was actually called a “non-compete clause” and included the…
in Careers Advice, Changing Jobs, Employers, Legal Profession, Training Contracts, Pupillage and Work Experience
Questions for our Recruitment Consultants
Reading Time: 2 minutesQ: I wonder if you have any advice or comment on the following. a sole practitioner has been asked by a lender panel to give details of a locum who the principal would have on call if the worst happened and the firm was left without a solicitor at short notice. Do you have any…
Dangling Partnership Carrots
Reading Time: 2 minutesDangling the carrot of a partnership when being offered a job or at an annual review is either because: 1. The firm genuinely like you, are genuinely nice and genuinely see a long term future for you at the practice. Partnership is a good way of cementing your relationship and committing you to the business…
Retraining into Wills and Probate Law – is it possible?
Reading Time: 2 minutesThinking of Retraining in Wills & Probate after years out of the profession and coming from a Commercial background. Is it possible? We have recently received a request for advice from a solicitor coming from a Legal 500 commercial background and after over 10 years out now seeking to return to the profession but not…
Fake News – is there a Shortage of Conveyancing Locums vs Wills & Probate Locum Solicitors?
Reading Time: 3 minutesCandidate Shortages in Wills & Probate and Conveyancing – myths and legends As I write this brief article, I can reflect that I could probably have written the same article in any year between 2011 and 2017. In fact if you are reading this in 20 years’ time, and Donald Trump hasn’t ended the world…
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Questions to our Recruitment Consultants via our Chat Service
Reading Time: 3 minutesAsk a Recruitment Consultant – questions this month on our chat bot Questions sent to us via our new Chat service online, together with general career questions emailed across. We do our best to answer all queries, sometimes after a fairly lengthy delay if we are busy! Why is there a shortage of private client…
in Careers Advice, Changing Jobs, Job Applications, Legal Profession, Newly Qualified Solicitors, Staying in Your Job
Should I leave when I qualify? The dilemna for Newly Qualified – 1 year PQE Solicitors
Reading Time: 4 minutesShould I Stay or Should I Go? In April every year we are regularly contacted by newly qualified and 1 year PQE (post-qualification experience) solicitors who ask the following questions: 1. Should I stay with my training law firm for at least 2 years when I qualify? 2. How much should I get paid? 3.…
In House Legal – is the grass greener on the other side?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteFor our full advice on in house legal jobs and moving in house from private practice (and vice versa) please visit our In House page by clicking https://ten-percent.co.uk/in-house-lawyers/ The advice sheet includes the following: How easy is it to move from a solicitors’ firm to an in house legal department? Can anyone do it? Is…
Relocation – Top 10 Tips
Reading Time: 3 minutesRelocation – top 10 tips Relocation is a stressful and difficult thing to do (apparently a lot of Americans are going to be doing this shortly – I wouldn’t like to be working for the Canadian immigration authorities right now!). Having been involved on numerous occasions with lawyers who have had to do it –…
Making a Move – is it really time?
Reading Time: 3 minutesMaking a Move – how to know when it is time The autumn is traditionally a time when a number of staff at law firms start to look around for work. Our candidate registrations tend to pick up at this time of year as solicitors return from their summer holidays having had time to think…
Salary Reviews – how to avoid pay rises (and lose staff)
Reading Time: 2 minutesSalary reviews – how not to approach them – a guide for employers/partners Here are our top tips for salary reviews and avoiding any increases in salary. 1. Repeatedly postpone or cancel the salary review for up to 6 months. Top tip. 2. During the salary review continue to work whilst occasionally glancing up and…
Practice Managers in Solicitors Firms – who are they and how do you get a job as one?
Reading Time: 3 minutesPractice Managers in a solicitor’s firm – who are they and how do you get a job as one? Practice Managers are usually the most senior administrative member of staff in a solicitors’ firm or company. In a lot of firms they are expected to have a considerable and varied amount of experience with tasks…
What Makes a Good Job Reference
Reading Time: 5 minutesWhat makes a good job reference? We often get job offers for our candidates which involve a clause to say that the offer is subject to satisfactory references. A few times during the last 16 years, we have experienced difficulties getting hold of a satisfactory reference but the vast majority of references are very straightforward.…