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How did you find your training contract?

  • 19-11-2013 4:56pm
    #1
    Belle_391
    Registered Users Posts: 7 ✭


    I have been offered a training contract on the basis I work merely for expenses for a year first. I will be paying my own blackhall fees and earning less than minimum wage for the duration of the three years. I can't help but feel I could do better than this. I applied to the big firms but only secured one interview and am waiting to hear back. Failing this, I'm at a loss of knowing what to do!

    If you are in a small or medium sized firm, How did you find your training contract? Cold-calling? emailing? dropping into firms with your CV in person?
    Particularly medium firms, how do I approach them? Its straight-forward with the big firms- applications every October but how does it work with the medium firms?

    Any advise greatly appreciated, feeling a little overwhelmed!


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  • #2
    Sala
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,494 ✭✭✭Sala


    Belle_391 wrote: »
    I have been offered a training contract on the basis I work merely for expenses for a year first. I will be paying my own blackhall fees and earning less than minimum wage for the duration of the three years. I can't help but feel I could do better than this. I applied to the big firms but only secured one interview and am waiting to hear back. Failing this, I'm at a loss of knowing what to do!

    If you are in a small or medium sized firm, How did you find your training contract? Cold-calling? emailing? dropping into firms with your CV in person?
    Particularly medium firms, how do I approach them? Its straight-forward with the big firms- applications every October but how does it work with the medium firms?

    Any advise greatly appreciated, feeling a little overwhelmed!

    If you really want a training contract take it, and then keep looking. Experience can be key and it is so much easier to get a new place with some good experience. Even if you have to go through Blackhall with them the Law Society will help you find somewhere else. Best of luck


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