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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jacob Miller" data-source="post: 75893" data-attributes="member: 5063">Hi [USER=12156]@City Lawyer wannabe[/USER], If I'm being completely honest, my understanding and perception is (and remains) that, overwhelmingly, postgraduate qualifications don't actually make you any more employable than you would otherwise be in terms of commercial law. There are a few reasons for this... I think partly that firms perceive those who have lots of postgrads as being 'career academics' who may struggle to really think like a commercial practitioner (at the end of the day, academic discussions can often become highly theoretical and not representative of the real world), and, as WhisperingRock mentions, those who have spent a long time in academia could have a harder time justifying the switch into commercial practice. I do genuinely think that people coming from an academic background do need a major paradigm shift out of 'academic' and into 'practical' mode to succeed in practice... even in my experience as an undergrad, I've been told in the past that I've approached things from an academic/ theoretical perspective too much and needed to drill down, simplify and be more commercially/ practically orientated. I think this effect could be compounded by spending even more time in academia (or, in the very least, perceived as being the case). As a caveat to what I've said, it's worth mentioning that I personally would never want to do further postgrads etc, uni is a means to an end for me and I can't wait to graduate! That might skew my position/ perception slightly. That isn't remotely to say, though, that it's impossible (or even improbable) that you would be able to move into practice at a high profile MC (or similar) firm having done additional qualifications: if you're the right candidate, you're the right candidate. You'll just need to be really strong in justifying why you want to make the switch to a practical career rather than an academic one, and be acutely aware of the perceptions that exist surrounding being 'overqualified' in the academic sense to be able to show that you've got all the requisite practical skills and can think in that way. Hope this helps!</blockquote>

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