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Legal education’s oversupply is unethical

I agree this is an oversupply of students chasing training contracts at the moment. I was recently involved in recruiting for a paralegal vacancy. We were inundated with CVs from candidates who had good grades. However, most of the candidates performed badly at interview. The majority of candidates stumbled over why they wanted to work for us and had clearly not done any research. One candidate told us that she was actually interested in working for another team within the same organisation. Another candidate had rearranged her interview time and then turned up late anyway. The system is producing too many students who are chasing elusive training contracts but the students need to realise that it takes more than good grades to secure training contracts and paralegal work.

28-Apr-2011

10:16 am