Alexander C.
About me
| Alexander C. | |
| Law | |
| Law | |
| Undergraduate | |
| 2011 | |
| United Kingdom |
My employment
| Trainee Solicitor | |
| Stephenson Harwood LLP | |
| United Kingdom | |
| Legal services | |
| 2013 | |
| £24000 | |
| £37000 |
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A day in the life of a Trainee Solicitor in the United Kingdom
My career history
Summer Intern (Prudential Policy Department) - Financial Services Authority (London) June 2011 - September 2011.
Associate, Financial Crime Operations (Financial Crime and Intelligence Department) - Financial Services Authority (London) September 2011 - August 2012.
Trainee Solicitor - Stephenson Harwood LLP (London) September 2013 onwards.
Courses taken since graduation
Legal Practice Course
My advice to students considering work
Speak to the sector area expert in the Career's Service. Spend more time on a few applications than producing hundreds of applications of a lower quality.
Make yourself known to employers at the graduate fair and make sure they remember your name (I volunteered to be the York representative looking after Stephenson Harwood at the York Law Fair).
My advice about working in my industry
Make a smaller number of quality applications rather than a large number of lower quality ones. Make the most of the sector specialist in the careers service.
Skills I use and how I developed them
My degree (particularly the PBL aspect) appeared to interest a number of employers, especially Stephenson Harwood. My first class degree definitely assisted.
Having studied law did not really have much of a bearing on my ability to get the job (60% of trainees joining in my intake come from non-law and law conversion backgrounds).
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