Sending a CV in PDF Format – a Good Idea?
Reading Time: 3 minutesSending a CV in pdf format – a good idea? Article by Ten Percent Legal Recruitment on the difficulty of processing pdf CVs.
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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.
Should I tell a potential employer why I am leaving my current employer?
Reading Time: 2 minutesShould I tell a potential employer why I am leaving my current employer?
In most cases, the answer to this is no, absolutely not. This is because the overwhelming number of people leaving employers is due to either a personality clash, a perception that they are poorly paid and can get better money elsewhere. or unpleasant working conditions.
I am writing a CV for the first time. How long should it be?
Reading Time: 2 minutesHow long should a CV be for lawyers – advice from Jonathan Fagan, expert legal recruiter at Ten Percent Legal Recruitment, UK specialists.
What makes a good legal CV?
Reading Time: 4 minutesWhat makes a good legal CV? Article and advice from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
How should a legal CV look in 2022?
Reading Time: 4 minutesDo 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.
Sh*t Happens – Bad Things on CVs
Reading Time: 4 minutesHow to explain away bad things on CVs (or not) – article from Jonathan Fagan at Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
CV Review – LLB Graduate Administrator
Reading Time: 5 minutesFull CV Review – LLB Graduate Administrator – from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
Legal CV Review for LPC Student – Free CV Review
Reading Time: 6 minutesA 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
Reading Time: 5 minutesCV for Final Year Law Student – Free CV Review from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment and Ten Percent Legal Careers Services.
CV Review for Newly Qualified Solicitor
Reading Time: 5 minutesFree CV Review for a Newly Qualified Solicitor from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment – legal careers and CV writing services for lawyers and law graduates.
CV Review – Commercial Paralegal with Experience
Reading Time: 5 minutesCV review for a paralegal with commercial law experience. A free review service from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
Getting Your Legal CV Noticed
Reading Time: 3 minutesWriting 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
Reading Time: 6 minutesCV Review for an LPC Student looking to make her CV stand out from the crowd. Free Service from Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment.
CV Review – Legal Profession Entrant from Elite Sport Background
Reading Time: 5 minutesCV 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!
Tailoring a CV for Job Applications – How Important is it?
Reading Time: 4 minutesTailoring a CV – how important is it? A discussion with Ten Percent Legal Recruitment about senior lawyers and their CVs (and the lack of information).
CV Review for an Overseas Law Student
Reading Time: 5 minutesTen-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
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is a CV review for an overseas lawyer from India from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
CV Review for Overseas Lawyer (South Africa)
Reading Time: 2 minutesCV 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?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteShould you include your nickname on your CV? An article by Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
CV Review for a Postgraduate Law Student
Reading Time: 3 minutesCV Review for a Postgraduate Law Student in Bristol – a free service for anyone consenting to their CV being posted on the internet.
Furloughed? Spend an hour updating your CV – a guide
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWhilst you are sat at home potentially twiddling your thumbs (or redecorating the lounge) what could be a better time to spend an hour or so improving your CV? So many people have CVs that could be dramatically improved – they are too short, not enough detail, not up to date, not enough factual information,…
Improve your CV in 5 minutes
Reading Time: 2 minutesHow to change your CV and improve it dramatically with this simple hack. Simply change your profile at the top of your CV so that is actually reflects who you are and not the usual nonsense that 90% of CVs seem to contain. By this I mean including factual information rather than a load of…
Can I apply for jobs without a CV?
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is often a question asked by fairly elderly or semi-retired solicitors who approach our legal recruitment consultancy Ten Percent Legal Recruitment. They have probably worked in the same job for the last 30 years and know just about everything there is to know about the work they do. This is invariably conveyancing or family…
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…
Exaggerating on CVs – a good idea?
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…
CV Review for Paralegal in South East England
Reading Time: 4 minutesCV Review for a Paralegal – as usual personal data removed. Feedback at the bottom of the CV. Reviewee has consented to this review being published. On these reviews please ignore the layout – this is due to our cut and paste operation! ——————————————————————– CANDIDATE NAME Address: Email: Telephone (Mob): Telephone (Home): EDUCATION September 2018…
CV Review for a Newcastle University Law Graduate
Reading Time: 3 minutesCV Review for a Newcastle University Law Graduate Name, address, mobile (with international prefix) and email address Linked In website link Nationality: British The first thing to point out is the reference to an international prefix for the mobile. Does this mean you are based overseas or looking overseas? In either event are you…
Personal Statements on CVs – Top Quality Examples?
Reading Time: 3 minutesTop Quality Summary Sections/Personal Statements on CVs The summary at the top of a CV is one of the key areas of a CV that so often gets ignored by candidates or filled with meaningless waffle. A good number of CVs we see every day actually miss them off completely, which is an opportunity missed…
Using Logos and Images on CVs – a good idea?
Reading Time: 2 minutesUsing Logos and Images on CVs Recently we have seen a spate of CVs containing logos and images for employers worked for in the past. Fresh, Bright CVs The CVs look very fresh and bright, and the logos really make them stand out. Surely a win-win situation for everyone? You get your CV to stand…