Application hub: Application hub

Whether you’re making training contract, vacation scheme, law firm or pupillage applications, there are some common application pitfalls that you need to avoid. Doing thorough research, targeting your applications and ensuring that your applications are perfect will put you on the path to success.

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Olivia Partridge - Top 10 tips for your vacation scheme applications

Olivia Partridge

Acing a vacation scheme application comes with time, effort and a lot of research. With the biggest vacation scheme deadline of the year – 31 January – looming (and many firms having their deadline before this), how are you approaching your applications?

Steps for applying

MyLocker

Sign up to use MyLocker - it's a central applications hub that allows you to store key info (eg, GCSE and A-level results) and copy this information into most AllHires Graduate application forms

One - Preparation

Two - Writing your application and/or cover letter

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Olivia Partridge - How aspiring lawyers can succeed with no legal work experience

Olivia Partridge

Securing legal work experience is no mean feat. It’s also not the end of your legal journey if you don’t have any.

Ask the Oracle

How important are my first-year exam results when applying for training contracts?

Could my first-year exam results affect my chances of securing a vacation scheme or training contract, even if they don’t count towards my final degree?

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How to include extenuating circumstances in training contract applications

The illness of a close family member during my third year at university really impacted my studies and exam results – how can I explain this in my training contract applications?

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What should I wear to an interview?

I've got a training contract interview coming up. I know that I need to wear formal/business attire, but what does that mean?

Vacation scheme applications

How to research law firms when applying for vacation schemes

How to find the right law firm for your career and disability

Tips for vacation scheme applications

Should I mention other firms on vacation scheme applications?

When should I apply for a vacation scheme?

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KEY SKILLS you need to put in law firm applications

LawCareers.Net

In this video, we run through the key skills that all law firms are looking for in candidates, and how to demonstrate them on your application form.

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Online application tips

Should I use my Gmail or an academic email address when giving contact details? How strictly are deadlines enforced? Are there any ways of saving myself some time? The team at AllHires has the answers.

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LawCareers.Net’s guide to video interviews

Video interviews have become the norm at law firms, barristers' chambers and other employers following the transition online in March 2020. Although we’ve seen an end to the covid-19 restrictions, it’s clear that virtual interviews are here to stay. There are key differences between interviewing over webcam and in person, so it’s important to be prepared.

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How to demonstrate the key skills for law in applications

All solicitors’ firms and barristers’ chambers desire a specific set of skills from their trainees and pupils. This guide explains how to self-assess your skill set, demonstrate these key skills on application forms and focus on areas you need to improve.

Training contract applications

Training contract assessment centres: everything you need to know

A 26-step guide to training contract applications and interviews

How many training contract applications should I make?

Four areas of knowledge you need to get a training contract

LawCareers.Net’s 10 tips for training contract interviews

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Olivia Partridge - More than just careers advice: five things your university’s careers service can help you with

Olivia Partridge

With Freshers’ week now a distant memory, and exams and essay deadlines a looming reality, what can you do to improve your career prospects?

LCN Podcast

Episode 11: how to research a law firm

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How to apply for a training contract: a master class

As anyone entering the legal profession is constantly reminded: it’s competitive to get a training contract. Applicants can be competing against hundreds, if not thousands, of other candidates for a small number of training contract vacancies. While some law firms will take on 50+ trainees a year, other firms employ only a handful.

Application outcome - next steps

Three - Interview advice

Four - Managing rejections

Application advice for non-law students

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Training contract application advice for non-law students

I'm finishing my final year of a non-law degree and haven’t taken a law conversion yet. Is the application process for a vacation scheme or training contract more difficult or different for non-law students?

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Top seven tips for virtual assessment centres and interviews

Do you have any advice for a successful video interview or virtual assessment centre?

More advice

Episode 28: work experience, interviews and processing rejection – with Nadine Owusu-Ansah

How should I ask for application feedback?

Legal work experience for non-law graduates

Videos

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3 Tips for Writing Training Contract Applications

EASY MISTAKES TO AVOID on application forms

BASIC PUPILLAGE APPLICATION TIPS | Dani the Barrister

Tips for RESEARCHING LAW FIRMS

My top tips for dealing with REJECTION | The Legal Path

Pupillage and mini-pupillage applications

How does the pupillage application process work?

A guide to pupillage interviews

Tips for applying through the Pupillage Gateway

More interview advice

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Olivia Partridge - Five top tips for virtual interviews and assessment centres

Olivia Partridge

It’s safe to say that most of us don’t enjoy interviews. Whether it’s the thought of talking about yourself, getting asked a question you don’t know the answer to or tripping over on your way into the room – or more recently, your wifi cutting out – interviews are daunting. Here are LawCareers.Net’s five top tips to help you to effectively prepare for and ace any virtual interviews and assessment centres that you are invited to in future.

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VIDEO INTERVIEW dos and dont's

LawCareers.Net

More law firms and employers than ever will be using video interviews to assess candidates. Here are tips of what to do - and what not to do - before and during your video interview.

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How to handle scenario-based questions at training contract interviews

What should I do if I don't know the answer to a scenario-based question at a training contract interview?