Legal Careers Advice for the coming year
Invest a few minutes reading our impartial advice articles and fine tune your career for the coming year. Articles cover long term career planning, improving your CV, preparing for interviews, negotiating a pay rise and and much more besides. We have included the reading time for each article and hope it is a useful resource. If you have any questions please drop us a line. We are open from the 6th January onwards.
You can click the links below or read the entire content on our website at www.ten-percent.co.uk . A full list of our 200+ articles and advice pages is available at https://ten-percent.co.uk/legal-careers-advice/ . Search current legal jobs here.
Career Planning
- Career MOT for Solicitors – 10 Tips to Fine Tune Your Career (reading time – 4 minutes)
- Handing in your notice and horrible bosses (reading time – 8 minutes)
- 10 years PQE and fed up – what should I do? (reading time 4 minutes)
- In House Law – is the grass greener on the other side? (reading time – 8 minutes)
- Stuck in a rut? Advice for Solicitors (reading time – 7 minutes)
Improving Your CV
- Getting Noticed – Quick Tips to Improve your CV (reading time – 3 minutes)
- S**t Happens – Bad Things on CVs and How to Handle Them (reading time – 4 minutes)
- CV Summary Sections – Good Examples (reading time – 3 minutes)
- Improve Your CV in 5 Minutes (reading time – 2 minutes)
- Do I need to bother with a CV or has LinkedIn made them obsolete? (reading time – 2 minutes)
- Assimilate to Succeed – Improve your Job Applications (reading time – 3 minutes)
Preparing for Interviews
- 10 Top Tips for Interviewees (reading time – 4 minutes)
- 10 Things to do before a Law Interview (reading time – 2 minutes)
- Discussing Flexible Hours or Child Care in an Interview (reading time – 2 minutes)
- Prepare for an Interview (reading time – 5 minutes)
Get a Pay Rise
- How to Negotiate a Pay Rise (reading time – 4 minutes)
- What is a Reasonable Pay Rise for Lawyers? (reading time – 3 minutes)
- How to Cut a Better Deal with your Firm (reading time – 3 minutes)
- I have been offered Salaried Partnership – what should I do? (reading time – 3 minutes)
Miscellaneous
- Relocation – 10 top tips (reading time – 3 minutes)
- 10 Innovative Ways to Get Fired (reading time – 5 minutes)
- Completely Fed Up of Law and Looking to Escape (reading time – 3 minutes)
- Dramatically Improve your Legal Career Prospects (reading time – 3 minutes)
How to be a Locum – pdf guide
We have produced a guide on how to be a locum. This includes sections on getting work, realistic expectations, hourly rates, popular fields of law, payment, insurance, umbrella companies and much more. Available for download or to read online from www.interimlawyers.co.uk .
About Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment
We are a specialist legal recruiter, covering both permanent and locum roles across the whole of the UK. Over 12,000 lawyers are registered with us and we have access to a range of external & internal job boards and websites where we do not have candidates available ourselves. We also assist with recruitment advice and assistance, regularly advising partners and practice managers on suitable salary and package levels. Our company is unique for a number of reasons, including the fact that we are not shy to publish our fee structure and also donate a chunk of our profits to charity each year. We offer unlimited permanent and locum recruitment for a fixed monthly fee or one-off fees depending on the job. We also buy, merge and sell law firms.
The Ten-Percent Group of Legal Recruitment websites gives 10% of annual profits to charity. We have maintained this tradition since we formed the company 20 years ago. So far over c£215k has been donated to charities in the UK and Africa including the Prisoners’ Advice Service, the Prison Choir Project, LawCare and Unlock.
We hope you have enjoyed reading this email and look forward to hearing from you if we can assist further.
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Jonathan Fagan
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