Reality check - online

Your online presence may be currently dominated by photos of debauched holiday antics and salacious comments, so it may be wise to build up a more ‘professional’ social media profile than your Facebook account offers. LinkedIn is great for maintaining a line of contact with the legal eagles that you will be meeting and is used almost exclusively for professional contacts, while Twitter can also be useful to follow the legal world’s big influencers. If you are a Facebook user, make sure that your profile’s privacy settings are stringent. It’s ethically dubious as to whether employers should try to rifle through the photo evidence of your trip to Bestival, but it’s likely that many will try if you let them. 

Privacy settings aside, we would also advise you to not upload textual or photographic evidence of anything lewd, compromising or illegal onto social media, as it can be downloaded to haunt you later. Make this a general rule if you don’t already, and if some of your weekends have walked on the wilder side, sanitise your own account and make sure that your friends are aware of your policy when they post.

Tomorrow, commercial awareness…