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.
Reading Time: 3 minutesDifference between Employment Agency and Employment Business. Article by Jonathan Fagan, Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesInterview Question and suggested answer from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment and Jonathan Fagan MD.
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.
Reading Time: 5 minutesCV review for a paralegal with commercial law experience. A free review service from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
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.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteInterview question and suggested answer from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment – do you enjoy travelling? A loaded question.
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.
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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDo you consider yourself successful?
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!
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.
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).
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.
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.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is a CV review for an overseas lawyer from India from Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
Reading Time: 2 minutesCV review for a South African overseas lawyer by Ten Percent Legal Recruitment. Free CV reviews for all lawyers.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteShould you include your nickname on your CV? An article by Ten Percent Legal Recruitment.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…