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.
Careers Advice
Interview Question 44 – Do you mind working for someone older than yourself? Younger than you?
Reading Time: 2 minutesInterview questions and answers from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment – working for someone younger than you.
Help – I Can’t Get a Training Contract – What Am I Doing Wrong?
Reading Time: 5 minutesHelp to get a training contract – advice from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment, specialists for the legal profession since 2000.
Interview Question and Answer – Do you know how to motivate other people?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteInterview question and answer on knowing how to motivate people.
Should I go back and re-sit my A levels (DDD) – I want to join a Magic Circle law firm
Reading Time: 3 minutesShould I go back and re-sit my A levels (DDD) in order to get into a Magic Circle law firm? Advice from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
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Legal Recruitment News February 2021
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLegal Recruitment News from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment for February 2021. Includes legal job market reports, hourly rate guides for locums, video CVs, independent legal advice service, redoing A levels to join city law firms.
What is the Difference Between an Employment Business and an Employment Agency?
Reading Time: 3 minutesDifference between Employment Agency and Employment Business. Article by Jonathan Fagan, Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
in Careers Advice, News
Legal Recruitment News January 2021
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLegal Recruitment News includes a legal job market report, hourly rates guide for locums, a state of the market report for the sale of law firms and articles on job interviews, buying a law firm for nothing and interview techniques. January 2021 edition.
Interview Question 42 – Do you feel you are ready to take on greater responsibilities?
Reading Time: 2 minutesInterview Question and suggested answer from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment and Jonathan Fagan MD.
Legal Job Interview Techniques – The Fake Receptionist
Reading Time: 3 minutesJob Interview Technique – using a fake receptionist to root out bad employees attending for interview. Article by Jonathan Fagan of Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
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.
My A levels are BDE and I have a couple of low percentages in my second year of a law degree. Should I give up now?
Reading Time: 4 minutesStudent with low A levels and poor degree grades – should they even bother trying to establish themselves in the legal profession or whether they have scuppered their chances with their grades and need to look elsewhere.
Interview Question and Answer 41 – Do You Enjoy Travelling?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteInterview question and suggested answer from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment – do you enjoy travelling? A loaded question.
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.
Interview Question & Answer no.40 – Do You Consider Yourself Successful?
Reading Time: 2 minutesDo you consider yourself successful?
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!
Does my first year at university matter?
Reading Time: 3 minutesDo 1st year university results matter? An article with full advice from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment with particular emphasis on law students.
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).
Locums Reluctant to Take Office Based Roles since July 2020
Reading Time: < 1 minutelocums are now very reluctant to take assignments that involve any or all of the time being based in an office rather than working remotely. An article by Interim Lawyers Legal Recruitment.
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.
Legal Recruitment News July 2020
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLegal Recruitment News from Ten Percent Legal. Professional Indemnity Insurance for Locums, the state of the Conveyancing job market, senior solicitors risk of redundancy, Legal Job Market Report and July 2020 hourly rates for locums.
Conveyancing Lawyers – has your job been affected by the lockdown?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTen Percent would like to build a picture of the current situation regarding residential conveyancing across the UK legal job market. We hope that the data collected will assist firms and candidates alike with decision making over the months to come.
Locums – have you ever been asked about PII?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTen Percent Legal would like to build a picture of the current situation across the UK legal job market for locums. We hope that the data collected will assist locums generally in the future.
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.
Business meetings – a thing of the past and is it normal to continue working during them?
Reading Time: 2 minutesBusiness meetings – a waste of time in the post-coronavirus world? And is it normal for someone to work on their laptop throughout a meeting? Is Zoom the future?
Can a Solicitor be a Millionaire – recent question
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCan a solicitor be a millionaire – advice on whether it is possible. If you dont bother reading the article – yes it is! But probably not as a solicitor, more as a business person.