Legal Executive Jobs

Wednesday, January 18th, 2012 - Legal Executive Jobs

Legal Executive Jobs

The key to all successful job searching, particularly in executive job search, is that people and making a connection count as much if not more than your skills and track record of delivery. No more is this more true than in two areas: sales and the professions, and hence Legal Executive Jobs.

These two diverse sectors – one based on people interaction and decision making, one an exam-based entry model which defines how far your career can progress – would seem to be at the most diverse of job search sectors, and yet in job search terms share so much in common.

But the commonality as with all job search is simple: people employ people. It is with regard to that truth, that successful recruitment in sales exeuctive jobs and legal executive jobs, that they share so much in common in job search terms.

The professions – the legal executive jobs, accountancy, medicine, architecture and academia to a lesser extent – are all what are termed in the employment sector  technical jobs. You need a certain level of qualification, membership/certification with the professional body, and experience to be able to be considered for a particular level of position. In the professions, the breadth of jobs you can apply for is mostly defined – often in a legal or membership society manner – through the level of academic qualification that you hold.

So how is it then, that after this point that job application in the professions appears to turn to the outsider on its head, and becomes a lot like sales executive job application?

I always explain it this way: you have to be one of them, before you can be one of them. What does this mean?

The simple answer is that those in the profession in one particular area stick together, and tend to engage and hence employ within themselves. If there is an area where the Coalition governments anti-”Old Boy” network policies should be aimed, then perhaps it should be at the professions.

But then again, if you look at the statistics, if you pass the academic entry level requirement, then the professions are some of the most open and equal sectors of employment in the UK. In fact in legal executive jobs, there is a huge fear about the lack of male job applicants against the continually rising tide of women entering the profession. So don’t look at the outside and come to quick conclusions. The professions are great sectors in which to work, well paid and actually easily entered, if you know how.

The simple guide for getting any job in the professions is this six-step process:

1. Know what qualifications you have: and hence what level of job that you can get
2. NEVER EVER LIE! OK, this is true of all job application, but never more so than in the professions
3. Join the appropriate professional society: pick up the phone, ring the national membership department, and speak to someone in the joining team. BUT don’t join through the national desk. Ask for a personal introduction to your local membership secretary (NB: the local society gets a credit for all new joiners; if you join centrally, they don’t get that!)
4. Meet the local membership secretary: systems change by the professions don’t. You may meet the chair person, the group secretary or the group membership secretary. But pick up the phone and arrange to meet for a coffee at their convenience
5. Be clear on your intentions: state that you are looking to progress your professional career (hence why you are joining the local society to you), and are looking for opportunities in the area of (state an area, be specific)
6. Network, network, network: now your are on the inside, network. Be their guest at the next local society meeting, or ask for similar “over coffee” introductions with those who specialise in your areas of interest. As you are now on the inside and one of them, you can access all areas and get employed quickly

Once you get to step6, I have never yet known it to take more than three meetings to successfully get a job offer. Yes, it is that quick, which did surprise me a great deal when I first understood the professions system and what was required.

When does the system apply? In two types of job applications:

• New graduates
• Experienced professional looking to move to the local area: apply the same system, but at step3 just ask for the introduction to the local membership secretary

What surprises me, is that more professionals have yet to figure out the same system for themselves. Yes, a poor Executive CV will as always let you down and not work, but as important is the human connection and building rapport. The professions, and particularly Legal Executive Jobs, are one of the best examples of that: you have to be one of them, before you can be one of them.

Good Luck!

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One Response to “Legal Executive Jobs”

1. Tara Frickles Says:
   February 6th, 2012 at

   My profession in my current skill is actually not that good but awesome. But there are still deep reformat and intriguing requirements on legal executive jobs.