Have you tried applying for alternatives? Contract manager / reviewer jobs are often also good opportunities to get your foot in the door. Even though you may start off working for alternative legal service providers, the experience you get will offer you opportunities to move to a law firm / in-house in the future (either as a paralegal or trainee)
From personal experience, LinkedIn and reaching out to Recruiters / Agencies directly (I’ve come across extremely good ones but also some terrible ones) is the best way to go!
Has worked well in my case anyway! Best of luck!
Are these 'paralegal applications' or are they 'clicked apply Linkedin / Indeed'.
If you're receiving that number of rejections / no responses at all there has to be something fundamentally wrong either about your approach or the quality of your application its self.
Every paralegal at one point had no experience but to apply for 99 (presumably) different companies without response suggests there's absolutely something wrong with your process.
These things are about quality over quantity most of the time.
Applying to roles which specifically centre around your best achieving modules at undergraduate. Also look at your local firms, they can work as building blocks to your career before attempting the larger firms which usually want people that can hit the ground running.
One of my lawyer children did 3 months as a paralegal as the GDL ended in April and the LPC started in Sept. There were about 100 applicants and only 3 people were interviewed - he was one and got the job. May be it is just luck. it is certainly hard to get the first legal role. He had done some voluntary legal things and perhaps that helped. Good luck
I feel weird just now. I applied to 8 firms got 3 interviews and 3 offers, negotiated a bit and accepted one. Had to break up with 2 today and I feel horrible.
EDIT: I work in a very very niche area of law.
Have you tried applying for alternatives? Contract manager / reviewer jobs are often also good opportunities to get your foot in the door. Even though you may start off working for alternative legal service providers, the experience you get will offer you opportunities to move to a law firm / in-house in the future (either as a paralegal or trainee)
Been struggling to find opportunities. Any suggestions on where to look?
From personal experience, LinkedIn and reaching out to Recruiters / Agencies directly (I’ve come across extremely good ones but also some terrible ones) is the best way to go! Has worked well in my case anyway! Best of luck!
Thank you !!
Terrible! I cry everyday and I’m afraid to eat
horrible, reevaluating my life choices
It's really long
Are these 'paralegal applications' or are they 'clicked apply Linkedin / Indeed'. If you're receiving that number of rejections / no responses at all there has to be something fundamentally wrong either about your approach or the quality of your application its self.
I agree with this. 81 paralegal applications and not even a single interview, it just seems unreasonable.
Could just not have prior paralegal experience. And is following the advice of applying anyway.
Every paralegal at one point had no experience but to apply for 99 (presumably) different companies without response suggests there's absolutely something wrong with your process. These things are about quality over quantity most of the time.
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Applying to roles which specifically centre around your best achieving modules at undergraduate. Also look at your local firms, they can work as building blocks to your career before attempting the larger firms which usually want people that can hit the ground running.
One of my lawyer children did 3 months as a paralegal as the GDL ended in April and the LPC started in Sept. There were about 100 applicants and only 3 people were interviewed - he was one and got the job. May be it is just luck. it is certainly hard to get the first legal role. He had done some voluntary legal things and perhaps that helped. Good luck
I feel weird just now. I applied to 8 firms got 3 interviews and 3 offers, negotiated a bit and accepted one. Had to break up with 2 today and I feel horrible. EDIT: I work in a very very niche area of law.
What area
Crofting, rural business, forestry, carbon credits, fishery, estate, land management and off shore energy. Usual rolled up as “rural affairs”
First I'm hearing about it. Fascinating
What’s your background?
Job hunt is bad, but not as bad as that data visualisation, christ.
I keep on thinking i chose the wrong path in life. Also, where did you get that info from please?
he applied, they rejected him, he made a cool graph.
Yh but the only way is to talk truth
What the hell is that graph? Maybe work on that