Ten Percent Legal Recruitment

in Careers Advice, Changing Jobs, Job Applications, Legal Profession, Newly Qualified Solicitors, Staying in Your Job on 05/04/2017 by Jonathan Fagan

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 Careers Advice, Newly Qualified Solicitors on 09/06/2016 by Jonathan Fagan

Newly Qualified Solicitors – 10 top tips on recruitment

Reading Time: 3 minutesNewly Qualified Solicitors – 10 tips on recruitment It is the time of year when NQ solicitors start to wonder what they need to do to find work on qualification if they do not remain with their existing firm. Here is our brief guide – you can read the full article at https://ten-percent.co.uk/newly-qualified-solicitors/ 1. As…

in Careers Advice, Employers, Newly Qualified Solicitors on 05/01/2016 by Jonathan Fagan

NQ Solicitor Salary £100,000 per annum – but is there a catch?

Reading Time: 3 minutesLondon Law firm pays NQ Solicitors £100k One of the US law firms in London has now decided to offer NQ solicitors £100k salaries, which is about £22k more than Clifford Chance NQ solicitors get, and about £75k more than most NQ solicitors get on the high street.. The RollonFriday.com website is a very good…

in Careers Advice, Changing Jobs, Newly Qualified Solicitors, Staying in Your Job, Training Contracts, Pupillage and Work Experience on 14/09/2015 by Jonathan Fagan

Changing Solicitors Firms during a Training Contract

Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sometimes get queries from trainee solicitors asking if it is possible to change law firms during a training contract, and whether they ought to do it. Our advice is always the same; jump through the burning hoop of the training contract with as minimal fuss as possible and only change law firm if your…

in Careers Advice, CV Writing, Job Applications, Newly Qualified Solicitors, Training Contracts, Pupillage and Work Experience on 14/09/2015 by Jonathan Fagan

How to Improve your Chances of Success when making Job Applications – become a Borg

Reading Time: 3 minutesImproving chances of success when applying for a job – become a Borg Whilst working as recruitment consultants, we often get asked by candidates what they can do to improve their chances in relation to a specific job that they may be considering applying for. Very often there are a whole raft of things that…

in Careers Advice, Employers, Legal Profession, Newly Qualified Solicitors, Salary Reviews on 05/08/2015 by Jonathan Fagan

Salary Myths and the Legal Profession

Reading Time: 2 minutesSalary Myths and the Legal Profession The legal profession is plagued by salary myths. How many times have high street solicitors been speaking to acquaintances and informed that as they are a solicitor they must be earning loads of money, at least 6 figures? How many law students still start their degree course thinking that…

in Legal Profession, Newly Qualified Solicitors on 08/01/2015 by Jonathan Fagan

What does COLP and COFA mean?

Reading Time: < 1 minuteCOLP and COFA These two new abbreviations came into being some years ago and relate to compliance with Financial Conduct, Money Laundering laws and a raft of other regulations. At a lot of law firms this person will be the senior partner, no doubt overjoyed at yet another excursion away from fee earning to ensure…

in Careers Advice, Job Applications, Newly Qualified Solicitors on 15/12/2014 by Jonathan Fagan

Why are jobs listed by agencies on job boards and websites not always active?

Reading Time: 3 minutesThere are a good number of legal jobs on the web that have been listed by recruitment consultants that are not live. I can guarantee this. I reckon that for every 1 genuinely live vacancy with a finite deadline to be filled there will be 1 vacancy that is not. This means that 50% of…

in Changing Jobs, Interviews, Newly Qualified Solicitors, Training Contracts, Pupillage and Work Experience on 12/10/2011 by Jonathan Fagan

An interview with Jonathan Fagan, Solicitor, Legal Recruitment Consultant and Career Coach

Reading Time: 4 minutesQ Why do you offer career coaching to lawyers and law students? Good question! Together with 3 other lawyers I set up Ten Percent Legal Recruitment back in April 2000. Within a few months we were being bombarded with CVs from law students and graduates desperate for training contracts and work experience. We obviously could…

in Newly Qualified Solicitors, Staying in Your Job on 23/06/2011 by Jonathan Fagan

Career Planning

Reading Time: 2 minutes“I’ve heard a lot of talk about career paths – what should I be doing about this, and is it a good idea to plan 5 years in advance when working in a law firm?” It is very hard to know what a legal career is all about when you start out in law. Firstly…

in Newly Qualified Solicitors on 20/06/2011 by Jonathan Fagan

When should a Newly Qualified Solicitor start looking for work?

Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is a question we get asked every day by NQs calling us. Our usual advice is to start looking for work about six months before you are due to qualify. Register with up to three agencies (we would prefer you just to register with ourselves of course – or at least giving one agent a…

in Newly Qualified Solicitors on 17/06/2011 by Jonathan Fagan

Newly Qualified Solicitors

Reading Time: 8 minutesWelcome to our Advice for Newly Qualified Solicitors. You can purchase our Guide for Newly Qualified Solicitors from the Ten-Percent Legal Careers Shop. Introduction Timetable for Job hunting Salary Levels and Negotiation Qualifying with Training Contract Firm Long Term Career Plans Introduction If you are reading this and are due to qualify in the next…