Unsure what skills employers are looking for or how best to develop and demonstrate them? With coverage of the core academic, practical, and transferable skills that can be gained during your studies,Employability Skills for Law Students will help you develop the employability skills you need to pursue your chosen career on graduation.

• Part I: Understanding employability skills


• 1: Understanding employability skills


• 2: Getting started


• Part II: Identifying employability skills


• 3: Academic skills


• 4: Practical legal skills


• Part III: Building employability skills


• 5: Volunteering, societies and interests


• 6: Commercial awareness and networking


• 7: Work experience


• Part IV: Focussing employability skills


• 8: Training contracts and pupillages


• 9: Law jobs after graduation


• 10: Non-law jobs


• Part V: Demonstrating employability skills


• 11: Applications


• 12: Interviews and other recruitment practices

In addition to their academic research publications, Emily and Stefan are established and experienced authors of skills texts for the Higher Education market. They are both Fellows of the Higher Education Academy and have won multiple teaching awards - Emily at Brunel University and the University of Reading, and Stefan at Brunel and the University of Leeds.