Recruitment at Michelmores Solicitors

Preferred date for commencement of training contract: *

Dates you are not available for interview: *

Location:
Location Exeter London

Dates and Name and Address of School/College attended: *

Please give dates, subjects and grades of all school/college examinations, including any failed exams:*
Include: Date, (month/year), Subject Level, (e.g. GCSE, 'A', 'S'), Grade.

Please include degree or any vocational course:*
Include: Dates (to/from), (month/year), University/College of Further Education, Title of Course/ qualifications, Final Result expected/obtained.

Degree Subjects Results and Grades:*
In each case please give the mark (including percentage, if known) for individual subjects and overall grades. Please also identify any half subjects or, if undertaking a modular course, the individual weightings. If not yet completed please specify the subjects to be taken.

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

CPE/Diploma. Are you, or do you expect to be, by virtue of your degree, wholly exempt from the CPE/Diploma?

If the CPE/Diploma remains to be taken, when do you intend to start it and where?

Legal Practice Course. Have you taken the Legal Practice Course exams? If so, what success (e.g. commendation or distinction)?

If the Legal Practice Course remains to be taken, when do you intend to start it and where?

Please give details of any full or part-time employment, both general and legal, you have undertaken.
Include: Dates, Employer, Type of Work (outline duties and responsibilities)

We are looking to employ the whole person and not just the ambitious lawyer so tell us as much about yourself as you feel able.

How do you spend your spare time?

Please detail any positions of responsibility and achievements.

Gap Year? What have you got planned?

We are looking to employ the whole person and not just the ambitious lawyer so tell us as much about yourself as you feel able.

Training contracts are highly sought after; what makes you stand out from the crowd?

Which three words or phrases describe you most accurately? Support your examples to demonstrate these capabilities.

What has been your biggest personal achievement?

What do you do best and why?

Nobody's perfect. Please explain what you think you do least well and why.

We all know exams are stressful. Tell us about another situation that you personally found difficult, where you may have failed to meet some important objective, what you did and how you coped with it.

Why have you decided to pursue a career as a solicitor and why does Michelmores appeal to you.

As a solicitor at Michelmores, you will be expected to respond positively to issues created by the constantly changing business environment. You will need to persuade others to accept your views/ideas. Describe a time when you have had to persuade others to adopt your recommended solution to a problem. How did you achieve this?

What non-academic goals have you set yourself in the last year? How were these achieved?

No Yes

If so, when?

Please provide the names and address of two referees (one of whom should be your director of studies, or another tutor who knows you well. The other should be a personal reference).

Please indicate what prompted you to apply to Michelmores Please select Please select... Careers Advisor Careers Service Publication Information Library at Careers Service University/Careers Service Website Careers/Law Fair Michelmores Web Site Friend/Relative at Michelmores [please specify below]

Friend/Relative at Michelmores:

Other - please specify: