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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aspiringsolicitor42" data-source="post: 211542" data-attributes="member: 40578">Things that ‘just can happen’ is not a valid excuse and it is up to recruitment/early careers teams to adapt effectively to these changes - whether economic, systemic etc.I think you’re reply is typical of legal recruitment in that they are more than happy to give generic responses and rest on their laurels by blaming external factors instead of actually figuring out what the problem is and acting on it.You are coming from the perspective of a recruiter, which is fine. However you are looking at it from a top down perspective, you don’t understand the personal experience of someone like myself who has religiously applied for the last 5 years and had no success. So with all due respect, your opinion isn’t that valuable here.I’m sure if you ask a lot of candidates who made it to final interview and received a rejection, that their opinion/view would be very similar to mine. We are becoming increasingly frustrated with the bottleneck and the failure of law firms to address this issue. Candidates who would have excelled as a trainee 5 years ago, now barely even get a look-in. Law firms have been complacent about this for years and recruitment teams even more so.Candidates are expected to jump through all kinds of hoops throughout recruitment processes and the fact that recruitment teams can’t demonstrate a fractional amount of that commitment back to candidates (especially final candidates) is disgraceful in my opinion.You’ve also misunderstood - my issue is not so much about the delays or the length of the process either (I have made it to plenty of final interviews). It is the conduct of the graduate recruitment team in the final stages of the process that is particularly disappointing - namely by not providing proactive updates, ignoring candidates, sending out generic rejection emails to final candidates and failing to apologise or even acknowledge the extensive delays.Law firms need to be better in terms of candidate recruitment - simple as that.It’s time to stop making excuses about these things, because candidates certainly do not. Or if they do, like I have, their view gets invalidated by someone who has no personal experience of it themselves.</blockquote>

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