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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Kerry Eustice, Kate Taylor, Harriet Minter and Alison White

Careers Talk: Breaking into competitive sectors — law

Guests this week: We ask Matthew Rhodes, founder and director of RollOnFriday.com, a community website for young lawyers, whether budding lawyers have an accurate idea of what the profession is like, why the industry is so popular and where those who don't manage to secure a training contract can go. Plus, Maya Wolfe-Robinson, the Guardian's legal affairs researcher shares some thoughts on the Ally McBeal affect.

News review: Apparently, graduates struggle to communicate in the workplace so we talk about what other employablity skills graduates need to brush up on, plus do one in 10 of us really loathe our colleagues? And, we urge the one is three jobseekers who make more than 100 applications to put down the scattergun and adopt the quality over quantity approach.

Jobs top 10: An entertainment-industry themed chart includes a development director for the Young Vic theatre and two archive assistant vacancies at the The Northern Region Film and Television Archive, Teesside University.

For more information — and, of course, more jobs — go to jobs.guardian.co.uk.

Q&As coming up:

26 July — Career options in international development

28 July — Dealing with a difficult colleague

29 July — Masters degrees: do employers value them?

30 July — How to become a counsellor

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