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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jake Rickman" data-source="post: 145785" data-attributes="member: 8521">A few thoughts:1. You're putting too much emphasis on your age/benchmarking yourself relative to others. I did not get an offer until I was 28 and following at least three cycles myself where I had absolutely zero traction. I have colleagues that are older than me that are starting the TC with me, and know practitioners who did not move to law into their 40s. If you are committed to law, you will keep at it until you get it.2. Those application numbers seem really high. The fact that you got a vac scheme to me indicates that once your application got in front of grad rec, they saw merit in inviting you. Just because you did not convert the first one does not mean you should pull the plug. I would focus on really considering what kind of law firm you want to work for and narrowing down your search and target firms. Spend ten times longer on each application. I understand the impulse to try and hedge your chances by scattering out as many applications as you can, but graduate recruitment can instinctually tell which applicants are doing precisely what you describe. If I had to guess, that's the biggest thing against you right now: not spending enough time on your application. 3. The WG test is an easy way to sift out an incredibly hot and fierce market. I was never good at the WG. I got better, but I know my most recent scores still would have automatically disqualified me from certain firms. That doesn't mean you won't find a firm that puts less emphasis on that. 4. If you're serious about law, you should try and pivot from retail to a job in the legal sector. I know that's not easy, but I did not start getting traction myself until I had secured a paralegal job. And I had previous experience working in financial services. Here too, you need to be resilient. I kept bombarding recruiters until one finally called me and they started putting me forward for roles. The emphasis is on resilience. If you send out 100 CVs to jobs on Indeed.com and you do not hear back, do not treat that as a sign of your self-worth. Recruiters for entry paralegal jobs are very one-track minded and will ignore the vast majority of CVs they receive. It is an industry problem not a you problem. Keep your head up!</blockquote>

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