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?