One-to-one support

One to One Support

We offer you one-to-one specialist careers expertise from when you accept your place on the course, all the way through until after your programme finishes. Click here to find out what you get and when from the Careers Service at BPP. The support you receive can be in the form of a face-to-face appointment with one of our specialist careers consultants or careers tutors, a 'drop-in' session, a telephone discussion or email advice.

All of this is operated within flexible opening hours, including scheduled weekend and evening appointments for our part-time students to ensure they too can also receive maximum benefit from the services available. Our experienced careers team can offer invaluable assistance with:

  • Applications for placements in law firms, barristers' chambers, companies or the not-for-profit sector
  • Application reviews
  • Researching firms and chambers
  • Deciding if you want to become a solicitor or barrister
  • CV's and covering letters
  • Preparing for interviews and assessment centre advice
  • Mock interviews
  • Alternative career advice

 

You will leave advice sessions with a career action plan detailing the steps you should take to achieve your goals.

BPP's Buddy Scheme

BPP's 'Buddy Scheme' offers guidance and support from students with training contracts or pupillage. If you have an interview coming up, contact the CareersService to see if we have a suitable buddy who you will thenbe able to contact for interview advice. The buddy will be a current or former student with a training contract or pupillage already secured at the firm or chambers where you have your interview.

Mock interviews

We provide a thorough mock-interview service based on the firm or chambers where you have a training contract or pupillage interview coming up. We will ask you questions that we think are likely to come up in a 'real' interview and then give you constructive feedback on your answers and interview technique. We will follow this up with an anonymous feedback questionnaire to help us maintain our feedback database for students.