Qualifying in two months, but offered paralegal position

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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.

Here's this week's question:

"I am currently a trainee solicitor for a medium size firm and am due to qualify in 2 months. My firm is not keeping me on as a solicitor but have offered me a paralegal position so that I would not be unemployed until I find a solicitor job. My experience in practice is mainly conveyancing and PI and with the current state of the job market is not very good for NQ considering I would ideally like to stay in Cardiff area. My question for you is - If I was offered a job in a small firm, in an area of law I have no experience in and am not particularly interested in - should I take it just for the sake of it being a solicitor job or stay with my current firm until something better comes along?"

The response is available here:

http://http://www.traineesol...php?f=5&t=2234