🚨 Reed Smith has just announced its Direct Training Contract route!
The deadline is 20th June.

👉 Read Becca's announcement post here
📝 Apply directly here

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="M777" data-source="post: 97676" data-attributes="member: 2524">It depends on the firm really.I'm paralegalling for a big firm rn and they were super chill about me booking time off for interviews, assessment days and so on. Most of the time, I could just do the interviews/assessments during my lunch breaks and then make up the time. Equally, they were chill about me taking a day out of annual leave to do assessments. My firm typically doesn't ask for our reasons for taking annual leave so it's quite easy to just request a day off.I also spoke to them about the prospect of taking a week or two off for a vac scheme. They were nice about it. They know paralegals are after TCs and are very much used to paralegals taking vac schemes during their employment. As such, they said I could either use my annual leave entitlement on them or just take unpaid leave.HOWEVER - not all firms are like this. I interviewed with one firm during summer for a paralegal job, first thing they said to me was "We don't like paralegals who stay with us for 2 years and then take the skills we gave them to another firm". A couple firms can also be 50/50 about letting their paralegals work for someone else. If you stick to big firms who are well-versed in the training contract recruitment process, you should be fine.At this stage in your career tho I'd just focus on paralegalling and worry about vac scheme conflicts of interest later down the line. You can cross that bridge when you arrive at it.</blockquote>

Verification: Our company is called, "The Corporate ___ Academy". What is the missing word here?

Top Bottom

Search

Search

Reply to thread