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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jessica Booker" data-source="post: 92059" data-attributes="member: 2672">This is going to sound brutal, but I want to try and explain it as simply as possible.The big question for candidates who completed the LPC more than 3-4 years ago when they apply to firms is why haven’t they secured a TC yet? The individual clearly had intentions to pursue a legal career by taking the LPC, and yet they haven’t gone on to secure a TC. It makes firms question the individual’s abilities/drive and also their suitability for a TC - for instance if they have been a paralegal for most of that time, why haven’t they been offered a TC with the firm they have worked for/why haven’t they looked at qualifying via the equivalent means test. There are exceptions to this of course and some people manage to really explain why they are ready now and show there career trajectory (without being over qualified). But it is ultimately trickier to prove you are the right candidate when you have had ample time to potentially prove to people you are ready.I think it is different if you are a career changer. Then you are starting your journey  to law at a different stage to someone who did the LPC 3-4 years ago. In many respects you are 4-5+ years “behind” that person (if you haven’t started the LPC). I think most firms highly value career changers. The one thing I would stress is that just because you don’t see them in the firm’s marketing materials doesn’t mean they are not there. I recruited significant numbers of career changers across the firms I worked for but they were always low in numbers when compared to the entire trainee cohort. The reason for that though was that career changers made up a very small percentage of the applications we received - in many cases it was probably less than 1% so they were far less likely to be represented in cohorts (although often much more likely to be successful in the recruitment process).</blockquote>

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