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<blockquote data-quote="prospectiveswitcher" data-source="post: 175472" data-attributes="member: 24174"><p>Maybe a more cynical approach than Axel but my experience, not only with the legal TC recruitment process, but also professional services / City industry recruitment in general is that the current generation of graduates is far too concerned with and misguided about the efficacy of 'parchment collecting' than getting on with things. After your bachelors, generally any additional qualifications (e.g. Masters) will be increasingly gratuitous, and after a certain point arguably make your candidacy worse. An academic qualification is *not* a free pass to a job in the related field, and nearly always any kind of experience or extra curricular pursuits will trump the MSc/LLM itself. E.g. if you say you have a keen interest in life science law practise, attend seminars on this, network with people in the field, just read books or blogs about it etc., all of this will trump doing an LLM in my opinion, or at least be far, far more cost effective. </p><p></p><p>The SQE LLM is a different beast - it is basically the SQE prep course, packaged in a way that it technically qualifies as an LLM so that students can avail of student finance. It is very different to a traditional law LLM and you should not equate the two. On that note, doing an LLM in general is mostly a waste of time and money if your goal is to increase your odds of getting a TC. If you want to do it for recreational purposes - sure, go for it, but it will not make your odds of securing a 'better' TC any higher, so bear this in mind please.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="prospectiveswitcher, post: 175472, member: 24174"] Maybe a more cynical approach than Axel but my experience, not only with the legal TC recruitment process, but also professional services / City industry recruitment in general is that the current generation of graduates is far too concerned with and misguided about the efficacy of 'parchment collecting' than getting on with things. After your bachelors, generally any additional qualifications (e.g. Masters) will be increasingly gratuitous, and after a certain point arguably make your candidacy worse. An academic qualification is *not* a free pass to a job in the related field, and nearly always any kind of experience or extra curricular pursuits will trump the MSc/LLM itself. E.g. if you say you have a keen interest in life science law practise, attend seminars on this, network with people in the field, just read books or blogs about it etc., all of this will trump doing an LLM in my opinion, or at least be far, far more cost effective. The SQE LLM is a different beast - it is basically the SQE prep course, packaged in a way that it technically qualifies as an LLM so that students can avail of student finance. It is very different to a traditional law LLM and you should not equate the two. On that note, doing an LLM in general is mostly a waste of time and money if your goal is to increase your odds of getting a TC. If you want to do it for recreational purposes - sure, go for it, but it will not make your odds of securing a 'better' TC any higher, so bear this in mind please. [/QUOTE]
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