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GDL vs SQE?
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<blockquote data-quote="TCLA Community Assistant" data-source="post: 34841" data-attributes="member: 2672"><p>Technically any signed off work experience will count - you could have accumulated it many years before starting the SQE.</p><p></p><p>However, what isn’t clear, is whether that work experience will make you employable. For instance, you can get your work experience accumulated in a university law clinic signed off. To be completely frank about this, that isn’t the equivalent of what you would experience as a trainee in a large commercial law firm. </p><p></p><p>So there is a real risk that you become over qualified by passing the SQE, but under experienced because your qualifying work experience is not comparative to what a law firm could offer. This happens in the accountancy sector <strong>a lot! </strong>The risk is that you are perceived as someone who could work at a qualified level purely because you have met the requirements of be qualified, but you can’t meet the requirements of the individual employer who has much higher expectations than the general industry standard.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TCLA Community Assistant, post: 34841, member: 2672"] Technically any signed off work experience will count - you could have accumulated it many years before starting the SQE. However, what isn’t clear, is whether that work experience will make you employable. For instance, you can get your work experience accumulated in a university law clinic signed off. To be completely frank about this, that isn’t the equivalent of what you would experience as a trainee in a large commercial law firm. So there is a real risk that you become over qualified by passing the SQE, but under experienced because your qualifying work experience is not comparative to what a law firm could offer. This happens in the accountancy sector [B]a lot! [/B]The risk is that you are perceived as someone who could work at a qualified level purely because you have met the requirements of be qualified, but you can’t meet the requirements of the individual employer who has much higher expectations than the general industry standard. [/QUOTE]
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