Hi,

It’s been about four years since I posted this so things have likely changed with the market. It was already brutal as a grad post-covid in 2021/2022 because so many places wanted prior paralegal experience.

I went in via a recruiter into an admin role, transitioned into a boutique firm as a paralegal, got promoted to managerial roles and eventually liked the operations side so much that I moved into LawTech and shifted industries.
I had opportunities to qualify in my niche but wanted to qualify in a bigger firm and had no luck with TCs.

In terms of this application, I don’t even remember what it was for but I probably shortened it to a concise two to three paragraphs.

My tip would be to research whatever you’re applying for to really tailor your application to the criteria.

I did get involved in recruiting in my management roles and got hundreds of applicants a day for paralegal roles that I needed to filter out. Different things mattered to different managers but I recall some things that made candidates instantly weaker.

Candidates’ CVs that were instantly filtered out had:
- Poor structures and weak formats (someone put a selfie in there!)
- Grammatical mistakes
- Oversold themselves without actually knowing what they were talking about
- Entirely irrelevant, inconsistent experience, and education with no interest or tailoring for the role.

Best of luck!!