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Advice...
There is something every student needs to know. Academic achievement is not the great divider it once was. While leaving university with a good degree is a pre-requisite in today’s graduate employment market, a degree alone may not be enough to secure that dream graduate job.
We’ve all heard the stories - the candidate who answered their mobile during an interview and said “You don’t mind if I take this do you and can I have some privacy?” Then there’s the interviewee that actually said he didn’t want the job for long, just until he’d raised enough money to go travelling!
Psychometric testing is becoming an increasingly popular option for employers when determining the best candidate for a job, it has been suggested.
"There's no guarantee that if you just select through normal procedures of the interview process you're necessarily going to have the right candidate for the job," she remarked.
6 out of 10 interview candidates rely on lucky underwear to get them through a job interview according to new research by employment law firm Peninsula.
Industry Insights...
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Our own judging panel was excluded and also non-lawyers, disqualifying some key regulators. As Law firms are struggling to recruit talented staff, Big Four company Deloitte has stated.
The Times' "inaugural list of the lawyers who have the most clout in shaping the rules we live by"
It has been done in the health service, the media and the City. Professionals — lawyers included — are increasingly victims of league tables. So braving the ire of that most litigious of groups, today The Times Law section offers its own list.
National trio Beachcroft, Mills & Reeve and Irwin Mitchell have become the latest firms to announce their 2008 partner promotions
Articles...
Who are the Millennials? The younger siblings of Generation X; their defining life experiences include 9-11 and they have never experienced life without computers.
Welcome to Generation Y.
Royal Bank of Scotland Career Start Study reports that attracting and retaining the best
graduates is one of the biggest challenges facing employers and that more than a third (36%)
of students with a job offer are still looking for other opportunities.
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