Ultimate Guide to Training Contract Success

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Popis zboží: Ultimate Guide to Training Contract Success is required reading for aspiring lawyers, and is a definitive route map to navigating your legal career journey. It has helped the careers of thousands of students, ... Ultimate Guide to Training Contract Success is required reading for aspiring lawyers, and is a definitive route map to navigating your legal career journey. It has helped the careers of thousands of students, and its value extends beyond securing a training contract. It offers comprehensive advice on the career management process, inspiring success stories and case studies to empower you to be the best you can be during your journey to qualifying as a solicitor. The guide enables aspiring solicitors to plan their careers effectively and forge their legal careers. It assists aspiring solicitors with practical guidance and proven solutions to many of the common pitfalls involved in rigorous training contract selection process. It is written by solicitors when they were trainee's at leading City law firms with the aim to help future trainee solicitors benefit from their knowledge and experiences they acquired. Our Guide walks students through every aspect of the training contract recruitment process. It gives valuable guidance on how to prepare quality application forms for the most competitive firms, how to improve your interviewing technique and provides an insight on what to expect as a trainee solicitor. The chapters on commercial awareness, networking and the questions asked at interview are priceless - as are the suggested answers and case studies. The Guide will ensure you become better informed about what law firms are looking for, why they are looking for these competencies and how you can develop these skills. In short, we demystify the legal landscape, which will increase your prospects of achieving training contract success. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN FROM OUR GUIDE? 1. Understanding the legal market for aspiring solicitors and the route to becoming a solicitor 2. What makes a successful lawyer? Career Advice if you have a 2:2 in your degree. 3. Advice to prospective trainee solicitors undergoing their undergraduate degree courses, GDL, and Legal Practice Course. 4. Explaining the different practices area in law. 5. How to become commercially aware. 6. Advice on drafting your CV, preparing effective covering letters and application forms. 7. How to promote yourself effectively through marketing techniques and networking. 8. How to get your application noticed and set yourself apart. Top tips and strategies to succeed at assessment days, group role plays and presentations. 9. Winning strategies on interview techniques and questions and answers on typical training contract interviews. 10. How to make the most out of vacation placements and legal/commercial work experience. 11. Meet our friends: A chapter from our friends who are currently training at leading law firms, giving top tips and practice advice on the key things that helped them secure a training contract. 12. Deciding between two offers of a training contract. What are the factors that make a good training contract? 13. What to do if you finish your studies without a training contract. zobrazit více