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Summarise (a third to half page) your experience and show how it fits the role. Consider referencing:
- Your chosen practice area and drawing attention to relevant experience as a trainee;
- Any stand-out Commercial, Business Development and Client facing skills/experience;
- Previous experience of living or working overseas; any prior exposure to the target market;
- Only exceptional academic or extracurricular achievements;
- What you are looking for in a new role and why an offshore/international move attracts you;
- Avoid excessive repetition of detail from the following CV.
Education and Qualifications
- Legal admission(s) including month, year and jurisdiction;
- Academic and professional studies in reverse order, most recent first back to GCSE/equivalent;
- Include dates (month and year), institution, location, studies and overall results;
- Where relevant, indicate ‘equivalent grades’ (e.g. GPA 63% equivalent to a UK 2.1);
- Keep detail of individual modules to a minimum;
- Brief mention of awards, prizes, scholarships;
- Include fluent or near fluent languages (if multilingual this may merit a dedicated section).
Legal Employment
Training Contract
- Detail your training contract including dates (month and year), firm, location(s) and seats;
- Seats should be listed in order of relevance not chronologically;
- Devote space according to relevance. E.g. ten bullet points for the directly relevant seat, five bullet points for a partially relevant seat and a couple for an irrelevant seat;
- Avoid repetition of duties; a summary of your duties and then a list of matters works better;
- Outline areas where your experience has been exceptional such as large amounts of responsibility or active involvement in business development;
- Consider using any short, positive quotes from your appraisals or supervising partners.
Paralegal
- For lengthy periods of time in particularly relevant paralegal roles, include a similar level of detail to that for a relevant training seat.
- For short term roles or less relevant practice areas a short description should suffice.
- Outline any particularly strong transferable skills that have subsequently served you well.
Internships/Work experience:
- Bullet point list should suffice – you need only include dates, firm, location and practice area.
Additional Information
Adapt as required, the following headings are optional and should only be included if relevant.
Non-Legal Work experience
- For relevant or lengthy roles, include a summary, otherwise a bullet point list will suffice;
- Where including non-legal experience, draw on relevant transferable skills;
- Part-time jobs whilst studying, unless making a material difference, need not be included.
Voluntary Work
- Particularly emphasising pro-bono legal work.
Published Articles; Public Speaking/Seminars
- Title, date, relevant chapter etc.;
- Event, date, contribution.
Memberships
- Industry or legal group memberships for example.
Awards
- Academic and/or professional awards; scholarships; recommendations.
Interests
- Keep it short and consider whether relevant.
CV gaps
- If you have taken time out to travel for example, it can be useful to reference it here.
Resources you may like
Summarise your experience and show how it fits the role with our CV Template
Summarise your experience and show how it fits the role with our NQ CV Template
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