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<blockquote data-quote="Jessica Booker" data-source="post: 118740" data-attributes="member: 2672"><p>I wouldn’t worry too much about finding a paralegal role to improve your chances of a Tc, I would just find a role that you are interested in and works well for you.</p><p></p><p>There are a whole range of careers outside of law - I don’t think it’s helpful in being specific as we see plenty of people gain great skills and knowledge from non legal roles that transfer well to a legal career.</p><p></p><p>Depending on the time needed for a recruitment process, paralegals either switch their hours around (eg start/end their working day earlier or later) and fit in interviews during the day (especially when remote working or remote interviews). They will take annual leave when they need to take a half or full day to attend an assessment centre.</p><p></p><p>Many people who work do struggle to balance application writing/recruitment process prep with a full-time job. Generally I hear that because of that people tend to have a more focused and selective approach to the firms they apply to and also tend to be really diligent in prepping and planning who they will apply to and when.</p><p></p><p>The actual time to complete a VS is probably the trickiest part. You may not get the time of work and even if you do use annual leave to attend a vacation scheme, your employment contract may for it you from working elsewhere without declaring it to your current employer. In paralegal roles, there can often be a need to do conflict checks as well and sometimes these checks (whether by your employer or your VS firm) will mean the vacation scheme can not go ahead.</p><p></p><p>There are enough paralegals who do VS schemes to show this is feasible though. It really depends on the variables of your unique situation. But it can be challenging, which is why many paralegals/people in full time employment just make direct TC applications instead.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jessica Booker, post: 118740, member: 2672"] I wouldn’t worry too much about finding a paralegal role to improve your chances of a Tc, I would just find a role that you are interested in and works well for you. There are a whole range of careers outside of law - I don’t think it’s helpful in being specific as we see plenty of people gain great skills and knowledge from non legal roles that transfer well to a legal career. Depending on the time needed for a recruitment process, paralegals either switch their hours around (eg start/end their working day earlier or later) and fit in interviews during the day (especially when remote working or remote interviews). They will take annual leave when they need to take a half or full day to attend an assessment centre. Many people who work do struggle to balance application writing/recruitment process prep with a full-time job. Generally I hear that because of that people tend to have a more focused and selective approach to the firms they apply to and also tend to be really diligent in prepping and planning who they will apply to and when. The actual time to complete a VS is probably the trickiest part. You may not get the time of work and even if you do use annual leave to attend a vacation scheme, your employment contract may for it you from working elsewhere without declaring it to your current employer. In paralegal roles, there can often be a need to do conflict checks as well and sometimes these checks (whether by your employer or your VS firm) will mean the vacation scheme can not go ahead. There are enough paralegals who do VS schemes to show this is feasible though. It really depends on the variables of your unique situation. But it can be challenging, which is why many paralegals/people in full time employment just make direct TC applications instead. [/QUOTE]
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