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- Hiring for Attitude – New Approaches to Recruitment
- Failing to research a firm before a job interview
- Salary Guide June 2024 for Solicitors
- Sending a CV in PDF Format – a Good Idea?
- What Does Pro Rata Mean For Salary Payments?
- Why Should We Pay You a Fee Just to Send an Email Out?
- Trends in Legal Recruitment: What Law Firms and In-House Legal Departments Need to Know in 2024
- Salary Guide for Solicitors and Lawyers March 2024
- Should I become a locum solicitor? Deciding whether or not to take up locum work
- I’m a solicitor with five years PQE – what should I do next?
- Salary Guide for Lawyers February 2024
- Salary Guide for Solicitors January 2024
- Four Day Working Weeks – Can They Work?
- Career Planning – Fine Tune your Career
- Horrible Bosses and the January Phenomenon of Staff Giving Notice
- Careers Update – CV Discussions
- Salary Guide for Lawyers, November 2023
- How does the economic cycle affect locum & permanent work?
- Making strategic career decisions for lawyers – create a career plan
- International lawyers looking for work in the UK – can Ten Percent Legal help?
- Changing from conveyancing to a life of crime – a good idea?
- Should I tell a potential employer why I am leaving my current employer?
- I am writing a CV for the first time. How long should it be?
- Thinking of a career in law? Article for 15-17 year olds
- Locums – get paid promptly or else
- I’m at a crossroads in my career, I’m 10 years qualified, and I’m fed up in my job. What should I do?
- Can you help me revolutionise the legal profession?
- Getting into Law
- How much does it cost to become a partner of a law firm?
- What makes a good legal CV?
- Effective Interview Techniques for Employers
- What is a reasonable pay rise?
- What field of law has the best paid jobs?
- Recruiting an unaffordable candidate – what can I do?
- I’ve been working from an office for 40 years, so why can’t others?
- Can a lawyer be a millionaire?
- How to negotiate a pay rise and how to deal with a request for a pay rise
- How should a legal CV look in 2022?
- Returning to law, changing fields of law or starting out in law – what do I need to do?
- 10 Top Interview Tips for Interviewers
- Job Interviews – 10 Top Tips for Candidates
- Interview Question and Answer 52 – Why haven’t you had many interviews?
- Interview Question 51 – Give an example of how a situation or project that had a positive outcome depended on the work of people from a wide range of backgrounds and ideas.
- Rewards & Benefits to Employees in the Legal Sector
- Sh*t Happens – Bad Things on CVs
- Interview Question & Answer 50 – Give an example of a recent commercial deal that captured your attention
- CV Review – LLB Graduate Administrator
- Interview Question & Answer 49 – Give an example of a project or task that you felt compelled to complete on your own. What stopped you from delegating?
- Legal CV Review for LPC Student – Free CV Review
- CV for Final Year Law Student – Free CV Review
- Is Age a Factor on My CV?
- Contract Manager or Legal Counsel – Tailoring Job Applications
- Interview Question 48 – Explain the organisational structure in your last company and how you fitted into it?
- I have been awarded a third class degree in law and I am having a crisis. Help!
- Interview Question & Answer – Do You Work Well with Others?
- Getting into commercial work after doing a high street training contract, is it possible?
- Interview Question 46 – Do you prefer to work in a small, medium or large company?
- I am available for locum work but I don’t have my own limited company – will I have to work on a PAYE basis?
- Interview Question & Answer 45 – Do you need other people around to stimulate you or are you self-motivated?
- CV Review for Newly Qualified Solicitor
- Interview Question 44 – Do you mind working for someone older than yourself? Younger than you?
- Help – I Can’t Get a Training Contract – What Am I Doing Wrong?
- Interview Question and Answer – Do you know how to motivate other people?
- Should I go back and re-sit my A levels (DDD) – I want to join a Magic Circle law firm
- Legal Recruitment News February 2021
- What is the Difference Between an Employment Business and an Employment Agency?
- Legal Recruitment News January 2021
- Interview Question 42 – Do you feel you are ready to take on greater responsibilities?
- Legal Job Interview Techniques – The Fake Receptionist
- CV Review – Commercial Paralegal with Experience
- 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?
- Interview Question and Answer 41 – Do You Enjoy Travelling?
- Getting Your Legal CV Noticed
- CV Review for LPC Student Looking to Stand Out from the Crowd
- Interview Question & Answer no.40 – Do You Consider Yourself Successful?
- CV Review – Legal Profession Entrant from Elite Sport Background
- Does my first year at university matter?
- Tailoring a CV for Job Applications – How Important is it?
- Locums Reluctant to Take Office Based Roles since July 2020
- CV Review for an Overseas Law Student
- CV Review for an Overseas Lawyer – India
- CV Review for Overseas Lawyer (South Africa)
- My Nickname is “The Wolf”. A good idea to include this on my CV?
- Legal Recruitment News July 2020
- Conveyancing Lawyers – has your job been affected by the lockdown?
- Locums – have you ever been asked about PII?
- CV Review for a Postgraduate Law Student
- Business meetings – a thing of the past and is it normal to continue working during them?
- Can a Solicitor be a Millionaire – recent question
- Furloughed? Spend an hour updating your CV – a guide
- Getting More Work
- What type of law pays the most?
- Interview Question 38 – Did you increase sales or profits in your last job?
- Interview Question 37 – Did you feel you progressed satisfactorily in your last job?
- A third class degree and re-entering the law
- Interview Question – did you enjoy university?
- Interview Question – Did your (university) course live up to expectations?