Lots of aspiring lawyers will be heading on vacation schemes at law firms shortly. Here are our tips for making the most out of the experience, from people who have recently completed vac schemes.

There are four main things that all recruiters want to see on application forms and you should make sure you're covering all of these before you hit send.

If you are offered an interview for a training contract this summer, you need to prepare. Here are our tips for what to do before and on the day.

Rejection is unfortunately part of the recruitment process - and it's an experience you can learn from. Here are our dos and don'ts of how to behave and how to contact recruiters after you have received a rejection email.

Find out what exactly our student careers conference LawCareersNetLIVE entail, and why you should apply to attend.

We're currently assessing applications for the LawCareersNetLIVE conferences taking place in Bristol, London and Manchester in late November and December. Here are our top tips for making a flawless application - and don't forget that much of this is applicable to law firm applications in general!

If you're a non-law student keen on a legal career, here's what you need to know about starting out with Shoosmiths. Hear from graduate recruitment manager Samantha Hope, partner Steve Wiltshire and trainee Alex Friston as they share their tips for non-law students and explain why law firms, and Shoosmiths, are interested in employing non-law students.

Networking is a vital skill for aspiring lawyers and there are many things you can do before and after a networking encounter to really make the most of the experience. Here is LawCareers.Net's guide to networking.

The legal profession is open to career changers and mature students and there are many skills you can bring across from previous experiences. To give yourself the best chance of success on this competitive career path, here are our tips.

It is imperative that you thoroughly research a law firm before applying. In this video, we run through the places you can use to build up a clearer picture of who the firm is, what they do, and why it is somewhere you would like to work.

At LawCareersNetLIVE 2019, we spoke to partners and trainee solicitors from Baker McKenzie, BLM and Osborne Clarke about how lawyers can juggle work-life balance, and what firms are doing to support employees.

Elizabeth Rimmer from legal charity LawCare discusses why it's so important for aspiring lawyers to think about their mental health, how you can manage your mental health in your search for a legal career, and what law firms are doing to support trainees and newly-qualified lawyers in this area.

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.

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.

It can be difficult to juggle your career research with everything else, but there are small things you can do to ensure that you stay up to date and make things easier for yourself along the way. Here are our tips on staying organised in your search for a training contract.

If you have genuine mitigating circumstances that have impacted your academic performance, it's important to disclose this in the right way to legal employers. Here is our advice on how to do that.