Majid and I had had a great time on the invitation of Laila and Madelaine (@MadelainePower) at the BPP Students Association Freshers’ Fair 2011.  Here we are at our stall [photo kindly taken by the President of the BPP Literature Society]. Majid’s the good-looking one on the left, btw.

It was held yesterday (Wednesday 28th September 2011) at the BPP Law School. We were representing the BPP Legal Awareness Society which we run for all students of BPP, across all sites. We are based at @BPPBusiness which is at St Mary Axe.

 

 

Thank you very much, Laila and Madelaine, for the invites. They are the current and former CEO of Students at the BPP Students Association. It was really nice to see the other exhibitors, especially Harry who runs the BPP Commercial Awareness Society at the BPP Law School. Through a stroke of genius, Laila and Madeleine put us next-door to the BPP Football Society, which was packed all afternoon with predominantly male law students and their girlfriends – importantly for the ‘success’ of our initiatives, learners who were about to do the GDL or LLB, LLM, or LPC, and who were interested in excelling in their training contract application for corporate firms. I found that some people who were interested in blogging for us were not the typical people who wished to do it for CV points to demonstrate ‘commercial awareness’ and ‘teamwork’. As I have become highly cynical about the quality of legal recruitment in the major corporate firms of London, this surprised me. I found instead many learners who wished to blog about their experiences in social law, which really pleased me as I am devoted to my pro bono at a London law centre. How they fair in their application to fee-earning corporates is anyone’s guess, however.

This was the ‘calm before the storm’, but it was packed when we got going at 2 pm.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The new website of the BPP Students Association (accessible here) is incredibly useful, and very easy to navigate around. It has very useful information for current students across all sites, including a valuable ‘heads up’ on news about accommodation, alumni, careers, clubs and societies, disability and dyslexia, funding, international student support, student discounts, ‘student support’ and ‘student voice’, and welfare, inter alia.

We presented our twitter feed on our laptop at our stall ‘live’ (https://twitter.com/#!/legalaware) and our laminated posters included Poster of the live Twitter feed the twitter feed and Blog information poster how to contribute copy for this blog to demonstrate to legal recruiters that you demonstrate teamwork and commercial awareness).

We are also able to recruit for our new psychometric tool we’re introducing to help law students ‘crack’ the SHL verbal reasoning tests almost used ubiquitously for the election of candidates for training contracts and vacation placements (https://twitter.com/#!/legal_recruit).

Details about taking part for free on the Gumtree website can be found here.