Legal career - guide me

vinnyryan

The recruitment firm I've worked with for the past 3 years recruiting Banking & Accountancy candidates has recently made me redundant. When I finished my LL.M (Masters in Law) in Trinity, my friend suggested I would enjoy recruitment and so I went for an interview with a corporate recruitment firm that she was with at the time. It was a chance for me to decide what next and to earn some money, also in a job that I might like and luckily did.

Now I'm starting to panic and really need some advice on what I can do now outside of recruitment ? I want to move out of sales and what I really liked in my job was dealing with clients daily. Is there a position that I qualify for with in the legal area that would allow me to use my skills outside of the obvious barrister(prefer not to be self employed) or solicitor (too administrative).

Can anyone please help me

Brimmy

You're a recruiter... surely you should know what you're good at and which jobs look for those qualities? :pac:

Seriously though it's hard to give any advice if you don't tell us what qualifications or anything that you have, I can recommend you be an astronaut or a nuclear physicist if you want but it probably wont do you much good..

(Sorry to hear about you becoming reduntant also, that sucks).

uaobrien

Seems to be a few HR/recruitment jobs available still if you want to stay in that sector:

http://www.jobs.ie/hr_recruitment_jobs.aspx

Otherwise, what transferable skills do you have?

kittensoft1984

sales???

drunkmonkey

tough break, what would you like to do now...you must have some good experience after the 3 years...

JDLK

You could consider a career as a legal executive:
http://www.irishinstituteoflegalexecutives.com/

and/or a career in

Company Secretarial and Compliance -(dont mix that up with a secretary its a legal dept which deals with the legalities of company registrations)

You may need to get certs for each but with your masters I would say that wouldnt be a problem

kizzyf

Not a great time to be moving into a legal career. Even work as Legal Exec's isn't readily available and with no practical experience at all it wouldn't be something you could easily fall into. I think the company secretarial idea would be better as there are so many companies going into liquidation etc.

vinnyryan

Thanks so far for the responses. Please keep them coming? Does anyone know anything about being a legal investigator or Legal tax consultant?

Mr. Incognito

Tax consultant is a three year qualification with the AITI exams and they are HARD. Mainly concentrated in the Big 4 or the law firms tbh.

vinnyryan

Mr. Incognito wrote: »

Tax consultant is a three year qualification with the AITI exams and they are HARD. Mainly concentrated in the Big 4 or the law firms tbh.

Thanks Mr. Incognito