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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dheepa" data-source="post: 54435" data-attributes="member: 1572">Hiya!Honestly speaking, I don't think it's necessary to go out of your way to find a paralegal job and I don't think I'd recommend doing it unless you really wanted to for other reasons as well.Interesting/new experiences that can help you stand out and tip things in your favour often have very little do with law. Personally if you wanted to show the firm you'd been maximising any free time you have, I'd focus on honing interests you already have, or maybe if you really wanted to picking up a new language or a new project. These kind of things give you transferrable skills that show that you are constantly developing yourself and are also generally more interesting for both yourself and your interviewers to discuss during that final interview!If you are worried about making yourself better equipped for the kind of legal work you'd be assessed on during the vac scheme, I really strongly recommend doing some of the virtual internships on Forage. The kind of deliverables some of the internships ask you to submit are not that different from what I had to hand in during my vacation schemes and I found that the example answers provided for each task on the platform really helped me understand the kind of structure, writing and presentation style lawyers use. (Personally highly recommend the L&W Emerging Companies and M&A internships because in addition to everything I already mentioned I also learnt a lot of useful commercial knowledge from both)Other than that, the best way to prepare in advance for a vacation scheme is just to make sure you're keeping up with your commercial awareness on a day to day basis. Also this might seem like slightly superficial advice, but make sure you are incredibly well rested and stress free before your scheme (the paralegal job might hinder this actually) because a huge part of being able to convert a VS involves being the person that is constantly switched on and engaged. This is especially true now for virtual schemes where things like body language and tone of voice matters all the more. You want to make sure you are never short on energy and that you are always the person in the room that comes prepared with questions or is able to contribute to discussions with your supervisors and mentors in a meaningful way. Small things like this go a long way when the time comes for people to give feedback on your performance. Not to mention being tired out from another job means more room for silly typos and mistakes when submitting work and even if this alone is not fatal, it will just add to your stress levels during the scheme! Some advice that I received from a partner is that you can be trained on the intricate legal and commercial knowledge, but no firm can train you to be enthusiastic about the job. That's something you have to bring on your own everyday. I would just keep that in mind when considering whether to apply to paralegal roles that may run up into what will probably be some of the most tiring weeks of your year anyway.Interested to see what [USER=1160]@Alice G[/USER] [USER=487]@Daniel Boden[/USER] [USER=4043]@Naomi U[/USER] [USER=5063]@Jacob Miller[/USER] have to say about this though!</blockquote>

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