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.
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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.
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,…
Getting More Work
Reading Time: 4 minutesWe took a call a few weeks ago from a sole practitioner specialising in employment law and some other forms of litigation. He explained that his caseload was such that although he had enough work for two or three days per week he was looking for a way of increasing his working week and his…
What type of law pays the most?
Reading Time: 4 minutesRule of Thumb for Pay A simple rule of thumb is that corporate and commercial law fields pay well, personal service law fields pay not so well. Corporate and commercial solicitors can be earning £100k and upwards, personal service law fields (aka high street solicitors) earn up to around £50k in most cases. Local authority…
Interview Question 38 – Did you increase sales or profits in your last job?
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This is a difficult question if you have not worked in a senior managerial post or sales and profits did not increase in your last job. This is also difficult if you are applying at a time of recession rather than at a time of boom because sales and profits do not necessarily increase…
Interview Question 37 – Did you feel you progressed satisfactorily in your last job?
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdvice This is a loaded question, if you say anything negative about a former employer it immediately makes the interviewer think you are likely to consider them in a similar fashion in a few years’ time. If however your application to the firm has been on the basis that there has been a lack of…
A third class degree and re-entering the law
Reading Time: 2 minutesA graduate has recently written to us to ask us for advice on what to do with a third class degree and a potential legal career. The graduate finished at university in September 2017 with a third class law degree and his query to us also stated the fact that he had not got any…
Interview Question – did you enjoy university?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteInterview Question 36 Advice This again is a fairly simple question with a fairly straight forward answer to it. Remember at all times in interview you must stay positive. Failing to stay positive will result in firms unnecessarily considering you to have negative thoughts. Negative thoughts in interview indicates someone who may be overly critical…
Interview Question – Did your (university) course live up to expectations?
Reading Time: 2 minutesInterview Question 35 – Did the course live up to your expectations? Advice This relates specifically to somebody who has just left university and has very little work experience for the interviewer to discuss and explore. It will rarely be asked of anyone who has been out of college or university for a number of…