Ask a Career Question to Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment

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Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment is an online legal recruitment agency for lawyers. The website has a vacancy database, a candidate database, over 100 pages of detailed information on careers, CVs, interviews, and advice on how to be recruited and interviewed by a good law firm. There is also a section on the recruitment and retention of staff for legal employers. The company donates 10% of its profits every year to charity - hence its name - and over 3,800 solicitors and legal executives have registered with them since 2000.

Each week, Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment will answer one of your randomly selected career questions. To ask a question, email your question to careers@traineesolicitor.co.uk.

Jonathan Fagan LLM MREC Cert RP is the Founder and Managing Director, and is a non-practising solicitor with over 7 years experience as a legal recruitment consultant. He has personally advised and prepared CVs for many 100's of solicitors and law graduates, and has assisted lawyers throughout their careers to date.

Ten-Percent Legal Recruitment Careers Services are as follows:

1. CV Preparation Service - a CV prepared from scratch, with a covering letter review, application form advice and ongoing careers advice and unlimited amendments to your CV.

2. CV Review Service - a report prepared on your current CV, with suggestions for improvement and change. Also covering letter and application form reviews included.

3. Career Coaching - a 2 hour meeting, with interview practice, CV discussions, careers advice and ongoing email support for all lawyers, law graduates and students.

4. Free careers articles posted daily on our site and blog, and a free downloadable and printable advice guide to securing a training contract or work experience.

5. Lecturing services for LPC providers on CV Preparation and Interview Practice.

6. Two books available to order on the site - Guide to writing a Legal CV and the Complete Interview Guide for Lawyers.

7. Free Legal Work Experience Scheme for LPC and LLB graduates.