The Rough Road Ahead

Due to recent Law reforms; this career path is about to become really hard. Competition for job will get very competitive. As such; if you are currently studying Law, plan ahead! Apply for as many different placements, scholarships, training contracts, pupillage and everything else in between. My lecturer keeps stating that 100 applications will get you 6 interviews... and 6 interviews will get you 1 job. This career path is fierce!

I applied for the Law Commission this week. THE Law Commission. The 16 placements available are offered to the world at large. This means that they should receive stacks upon stacks of applications and they will do ANYTHING to decrease that pile. Spend as much time as possible on each of your applications. I had to read the instructions VERY carefully and follow everything to the letter. On an online application; if they ask you to label a document as "LawCom <your name>" and you mistakenly label it as "Lawcom <your name>"; you risk your application getting rejected on the get go. So be very careful; dont give them an excuse to not read your full application... if you do; they will use it.

Paul G,
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