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I get asked a lot, “what if I don’t have good grades?”.
The simple answer is excellence is not demonstrated through good grades alone. Practically speaking, only entry level roles require a minimum class of grades. Grades lose their allure almost after your first year.
The simple answer is excellence is not demonstrated through good grades alone. Practically speaking, only entry level roles require a minimum class of grades. Grades lose their allure almost after your first year.
And even at entry level, your CV can show you off as an excellent person despite lack of the required class of grades.
The ACCA for instance is grade and you can achieve a first class and list it in there. Many online courses are graded, achieve a distinction and list in there.
The ACCA for instance is grade and you can achieve a first class and list it in there. Many online courses are graded, achieve a distinction and list in there.
Other easy ways to demonstrate excellence and you can start now:
1. Advanced computer skills (coding, graphics designing, PowerPoint, Excel guru
2. Research assistant to a renowned professor and/or proof of publication.
3. Ranking in/winning competitions.
1. Advanced computer skills (coding, graphics designing, PowerPoint, Excel guru
2. Research assistant to a renowned professor and/or proof of publication.
3. Ranking in/winning competitions.
4. Headed organisations? How much did you raise in sponsorships? What innovations did you bring to the office? You can easily become the marketing/business development guy.
5. Founded anything? How is it going?
6. Are you very connected? Show them through your referees.
5. Founded anything? How is it going?
6. Are you very connected? Show them through your referees.
7. Work experience! This can be demonstrated through the quality of internships. If you don’t have good grades, please when you go and intern make sure you learn so much so you can brag to any interview that, “I know this work se”. Your selling point becomes on-the-job skills.
8. You can also enter the organisation as an intern even if you are over qualified. Impress them so much and they will not want to let you go.
9. Back to my first point, assuming you are not in a big firm at entry level, you have to work in that small firm likeeeeeee...
9. Back to my first point, assuming you are not in a big firm at entry level, you have to work in that small firm likeeeeeee...
So that your work speaks for you when you decide to move. In smaller firms, more junior lawyers get bigger responsibilities. Big firms cannot let you handle a trial, but you may already be doing that in your firm. That’s what it comes down to after the first year: EXPERIENCE!
