I will be launching my new website ‘Legal Recruit’ to help law students become really good at two of the most important online assessments for legal recruitment.

These are currently verbal reasoning tests and situational judgement tests.

 

 

It’s essential you practice these before doing them ‘for real’ through online training contract and vacation scheme applications in the City corporate firms.

I believe that it’s a shame for students to come a cropper on these tests, and not get called for interview, even if they meet interview requirements elsewhere, such as II.1 or relevant vacation scheme placement. A colleague of mine – very well-known, in fact – refers to this phenomenon as “death by spreadsheet”.

 

 

The new website is here http://legal-recruit.org/.

 

 

I have been working extremely hard on it the last few weeks. Please feel to look around. Some of the features – like the main assessment ‘zone’ – are disabled, as I have not formally launched this yet.

For those who are interested in some of the relevant theory and evidence underlying this new website designed for law students, you might like to go to this blog http://legalrecruit.org/. I keep this blog up-to-date with useful info. There’s also a twitter thread on which I put up interesting stuff, including stories of the type which could easily feature in a verbal reasoning test, ranging from geology to technology: http://twitter.com/#!/legal_recruit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you go to http://legal-recruit.org/, you will see there’s a toolbar ‘about the tests’. If you go there, you’ll then see another toolbar, and if you go to any of the pages there, you’ll be able to download a free factsheet.

If you click register http://legal-recruit.org/register/ you will then be invited to sign-up. Sign-up involves you suggesting a username, and you’ll be sent a password by email to an e-mail address you suggest. You can then use the username and password to login (using the login button in the top-right corner) http://legal-recruit.org/wp-login.php.

Once you login, you’ll be able to do the trial http://legal-recruit.org/trial/. You should only do the trial if you are indeed of graduate level, i.e. you have graduated.

This is a practice test which gives you a very good idea how a real asssessment of the type routinely done for real training contract applications. After you do this test, you’ll be able to look at a full report as to how you do did.

 

 

 

 

 

You’ll know I have a bugbear about legal recruiters not entering into the letter of the law (or spirit more often) regarding ‘reasonable adjustments’ for tests. This website will allow you to alter the text-size meaning that some law students will not needlessly suffer in struggling to read the questions. For the practice assessments to be offered on my site from 1 November 2011, registered users will be able to vary the time that they can take for each test from 19 minutes to 39 minutes. You can read more about this here if you’re interested.

After taking the test, you’ll be confidentially be able to read the report on this link (if you’re logged in). Don’t worry – nobody else gets to see this report, not even us!

 

ALL OF THIS PRACTICE IS FOR FREE – ENJOY!