Careers resources
To support you when researching your career opportunities, we offer you access to a range of specialist careers information:
- a vacancies database with a large range of legal vacancies for training contracts, paralegal jobs, internship and work experience opportunities, including posts advertised exclusively to BPP students
- online careers information and guidance on the student intranet, including feedback from previous interviewees on interviews for training contracts and pupillages
We also offer you a variety of handouts into areas research and written by our specialist careers team including:
Beginning your legal career:
- Career Planning Checklist
- Creative Job Searching
- Law Career Self Evaluation Tool
- Funding your course
- LPC electives and career choices
- Networking
- Overcoming barriers to a legal career
- Students with a 2:2 or low A levels
- Useful internet resources
- Useful books
- The Solicitor’s Profession?
- The Barrister’s Profession?
- What firms and chambers want from applicants
- Work experience and how to get it
Applying to Chambers
- Action words for CVs and application forms
- Writing Covering Letters
- Writing CVs
- Mature Students – Making your experience count
- Finding and Applying for Pupillage
- Pupillage at the Employed Bar
- Securing pupillage after the BPTC
- Finishing the BPTC – What to do next
- Becoming a Solicitor after the BPTC
Applying to Law Firms
- Begin your research
- Action words for CVs and application forms
- Applying for Training Contracts
- Applying for In-house Training Contracts
- Applying for Part-time Training Contracts
- Commercial Awareness
- Mature Students – Making your experience count
- Writing Covering Letters
- Writing CVs
- Becoming a Barrister after the LPC
Example CVs
- Example CV 1 for Solicitor Route
- Example CV 2 for Solicitor Route
- Example CV 3 for Solicitor Route
- Example CV for Bar students
- Example CV for International Students
- Example CV for Mature Students 1
- Example CV for Mature Students 2
Interviews and Assessment Centres
- Preparing for Assessment Centres
- Preparing for Interviews
- Psychometric Testing
International Students
- Introduction to Work Permits
- Job seeking in the UK
- Literacy Support Guide
- Useful websites
- Visa and Immigration information
Other Career opportunities
- Alternative Careers
- How to become a judge
- International Internships
- Paralegal Work in Australia
- Paralegal Work in Leeds and Manchester
- Paralegal Work in London
- Qualifying and working abroad
- What is a Chartered/Company Secretary?
- What is a Coroner?
- What is a Mediator?
- What is a Patent Attorney?
- What is a Trade Mark Attorney?