News and Updates from FWA
Jul 2018
…Essential throughout your careerGiven your skills profile, ask yourself if you are working in the practice best offering scope for personal and professional development? Is there a skills profile/firm profile match? A property lawyer operating within a mainly corporate practice may ultimately be limiting his/her options for partnership or even senior level positions. Think about how far you can take your skills profile. Similarly, will you become too experienced and too well paid to be able to make a sideways move (to a more junior level position as you see it) and retrain within a different specialist area? Others may view this as a downward step, given the salary/experience ratio, and firms may be less willing to offer you that opportunity than to a more junior level lawyer. This allows the firm to match salary and experience, as well as allowing them to train up staff within that specific corporate culture.
More senior lawyers bring experience, market knowledge, reputation, followings and the corporate cultural baggage of another firm! You may consider your years of experience as a strength you bring, other firms may form a different opinion. They may consider this as a weakness and as a result draw conclusions, rightly or wrongly, about your adaptability to new corporate cultures. This is why it is very important to consider the retraining issue, and not wait 6-8 years before looking closely at the skills profile/firm profile match. If there is no match, then how likely is this to change in the short to medium to long-term future? Given current trends to specialise, then you should be looking to find yourself in the working environment most suited to your skills that will allow you to develop and progress. Career planning is integral to your professional and personal success.
Oct 2022
With this week officially been National Work Life Week, we thought we would share some of the ways FWA supports its employees in having a positive work/life balance. With half of our employees having young families FWA realises the importance of a successful work/life balance and how it effects employee morale and performance. We spoke […]
Jun 2022
This week is Men’s Health Week and we aim to raise awareness of preventable health problems that disproportionately affect men and encourage them to tackle their issues. We support The Men’s Health Forum (https://www.mhwshow.co.uk/mens-health-week-2020-mental-health/) #manMOT campaign and have detailed ways in which you get your MOT. Take notice of what’s going on in your body and […]
May 2022
As we reflect on the past two years, we have all adapted our working and social lives in unimaginable ways. Workplaces, as well as society have had to act fast and be open to change. We have seen great strength in all our clients and candidates who continue to show resilience, innovation and collaboration. Frasia […]
