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Seld-fund SQE, LLM or Paralegal if I am looking to apply for TC, as an international student
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<blockquote data-quote="Jessica Booker" data-source="post: 137623" data-attributes="member: 2672"><p>The LLM is only going to buy you another year of applying. It won’t improve your CV for most U.K. law firms - the exception generally is if you are applying for a niche/specialist role and your LLM aligns with that discipline (eg Shipping Law / IP).</p><p></p><p>Sitting the SQE is more productive but still doesn’t necessary dramatically improve your chances of securing VS or TCs. It’s not to say you shouldn’t do it but I think you just have to weigh it up</p><p></p><p>As mentioned in another post, getting a visa for the vast majority of paralegal roles is difficult mainly because they don’t meet the visa’s requirements. So it’s not necessarily that law firms don’t want to apply for them, it’s that they can’t (although many would not pay for visas for such a role even if it was easy). Therefore working as a paralegal is really going to need you applying and paying for a graduate visa to cover you to work for up to two years.</p><p></p><p>The non legal graduate programme may be an option but there are things to consider. Doing vacation schemes when you are already working can be difficult to 1) get the time of work; 2) get the approval to go and work for another organisation; 3) pass conflict checks (especially if it is a government organisation). Plenty of people secure TCs while pursuing a different career route and some manage to do VS, but VS will come with additional obstacles. For instance, if you are working on a skilled persons visa for your graduate programme, working for another company is near on impossible. You can only really do this if you are in a graduate visa which is tied to you rather than your employer (skilled persons visas are tied to your employer who is sponsoring you).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jessica Booker, post: 137623, member: 2672"] The LLM is only going to buy you another year of applying. It won’t improve your CV for most U.K. law firms - the exception generally is if you are applying for a niche/specialist role and your LLM aligns with that discipline (eg Shipping Law / IP). Sitting the SQE is more productive but still doesn’t necessary dramatically improve your chances of securing VS or TCs. It’s not to say you shouldn’t do it but I think you just have to weigh it up As mentioned in another post, getting a visa for the vast majority of paralegal roles is difficult mainly because they don’t meet the visa’s requirements. So it’s not necessarily that law firms don’t want to apply for them, it’s that they can’t (although many would not pay for visas for such a role even if it was easy). Therefore working as a paralegal is really going to need you applying and paying for a graduate visa to cover you to work for up to two years. The non legal graduate programme may be an option but there are things to consider. Doing vacation schemes when you are already working can be difficult to 1) get the time of work; 2) get the approval to go and work for another organisation; 3) pass conflict checks (especially if it is a government organisation). Plenty of people secure TCs while pursuing a different career route and some manage to do VS, but VS will come with additional obstacles. For instance, if you are working on a skilled persons visa for your graduate programme, working for another company is near on impossible. You can only really do this if you are in a graduate visa which is tied to you rather than your employer (skilled persons visas are tied to your employer who is sponsoring you). [/QUOTE]
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