Careers resources
We also offer you access to specialist careers information and facilities, including:
- Regular email alerts, featuring careers information and key recruitment deadlines
- Access to the careers library resources including extensive information on companies, career guides in hard copy and downloadable form, take-away vacancy magazines and employer directories
- Opportunity to undertake career matching self-assessment programmes with our personality and career profiling software
- Online and real-time psychometric testing opportunities
- Access to our online CV building programme which takes you through each stage of the CV building process and produces the finished version for you
- Online application form checking service
- Video advice from top employers on a range of careers related topics
- Online video case study profiles
Comprehensive online and paper resources
From vacancy databases and updates, to case studies, video profiles and detailed placement feedback, our resources offer a wealth of opportunities for developing your career.
Stay in the loop by signing up for email alerts and our comprehensive careers workshops.
We also offer you a choice of handouts focusing on various specialist areas. These are researched and written by our expert careers team.
Beginning your legal career
- Career Planning Checklist
- Creative Job Searching
- Law Career Self Evaluation Tool
- Funding your course
- LPC electives and career choices
- Networking
- Overcoming barriers to a legal career
- Students with a 2:2 or low 'A' Levels
- Useful internet resources
- Useful books
- The Solicitor's Profession?
- The Barrister's Profession?
- What firms and chambers want from applicants
- Work experience and how to get it
Applying to chambers
- Action words for CVs and application forms
- Writing Covering Letters
- Writing CVs
- Mature Students - Making your experience count
- Finding and Applying for Pupillage
- Pupillage at the Employed Bar
- Securing pupillage after the BPTC
- Finishing the BPTC - What to do next
Applying to law firms
- Begin your research
- Action words for CVs and application forms
- Applying for Training Contracts
- Applying for In-house Training Contracts
- Applying for Part-time Training Contracts
- Commercial Awareness
- Mature Students - Making your experience count
- Writing Covering Letters
- Writing CVs
- Becoming a Barrister after the LPC
Example CVs
- Example CV 1 for Solicitor Route
- Example CV 2 for Solicitor Route
- Example CV 3 for Solicitor Route
- Example CV for Bar students
- Example CV for International Students
- Example CV for Mature Students 1
- Example CV for Mature Students 2
Interviews and assessment centres
- Preparing for Assessment Centres
- Preparing for Interviews
- Psychometric Testing
International students
- Introduction to Work Permits
- Job seeking in the UK
- Literacy Support Guide
- Useful websites
Other career opportunities
- Alternative Careers
- How to become a judge
- International Internships
- Paralegal Work in Australia
- Paralegal Work in Leeds and Manchester
- Paralegal Work in London
- Qualifying and working abroad
- What is a Chartered or Company Secretary?
- What is a Coroner?
- What is a Mediator?
- What is a Patent Attorney?
- What is a Trade Mark Attorney?