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Training Contract Assistance

Why seek help with your training contract application?

Graduate recruitment within the legal sector is fiercely competitive. Each year, thousands of aspiring solicitors complete applications to the many law firms offering training contracts to fund them through the GDL and/or LPC, and provide them with the requisite training in the first two years of their legal careers. Many of these applicants are unaware of the differences between these firms, the varying qualities they look for in trainees or the cultures that distinguish one firm from another. This is largely due to the lack of specialist, objective advice available for students as they navigate the application process.

Firms channel enormous sums of money into their graduate recruitment initiatives, and it is all too easy to become seduced by the marketing campaign of one firm over another. But these external corporate images often belie the reality of the firm's culture, what they in particular look for in a trainee and the skill sets they champion. Oxbridge Essays is here to help. We contract the services of experts within the field of graduate recruitment; they are hired on the basis of their experience within the sector, their superior academic credentials and their thorough understanding of the numerous law firms. They will help you determine which law firm suits you best and offer you practical advice as you go about your application.

The Services We Offer

  • Suitability Reports - This is a face-to-face meeting with a legal expert to ascertain exactly what it is you are looking for in a firm. There will then follow a detailed personality questionnaire and evaluation, in order to identify firms that would best suit you.
  • CVs - We contract the services of experts within legal sector graduate recruitment, many of whom are practising solicitors at major firms. They will advise you on the most effective means of writing, structuring and presenting your CV so it makes the biggest possible impact.
  • Cover Letters - One of our experts will custom-write your covering letter, ensuring that it is structured and worded in such a way that it will appeal to the specific firm.
  • Consultations - This is an opportunity for you to discuss your application, and can be conducted at any stage of your application process. Whether or not you have general or specific questions about the sector or the firms themselves, one of our experts will be able to help you.
  • Interview Answers - We can supply tailored answers that contain the information specific law firms want to hear, phrased in the way they want to hear it.
  • Interview Preparation - Our experts all have extensive interview experience and can help you improve your style, practice your answers and offer constructive feedback on your performance.
  • Editing - For those who have already completed their application material (CVs, cover letters and so on), one of our experts will edit and proofread for language errors, typos and structural mistakes.
  • Application Essays - One of our experts will custom-write an application essay targeted to a specific firm.

All of the above services can be contracted independently. If you feel you would benefit from several of these service combined, our fully comprehensive and tailored Magic Service fuses all the above services into one complete package.