I completed my LLB study and achieved a 2:1 two years ago, but I have been unemployed since then. I would appreciate some suggestions as to how I may plan my career/life in the next few years.
In the past 2 years, I was able to put my 100% focus and effort in attending law fairs, researching law firms and crafting dozens of legal job applications for training contracts, vac schemes and paralegal/legal secretary roles at city firms and high street firms. Unfortunately, all I could secure was one unpaid internship (which was generally for university students but not graduates) at a high street firm last year.
I thought I had good potential for securing a training contract, as I was highly active in participating in many sorts of activities at university that demonstrated various competencies desired by city firms. I was also a member of a national team and obtained significant achievements. However, it appears to me that these are insufficient to pass the screening.
For the sake of my physical/mental/financial wellbeing, I realised that I cannot continue to devote 100% of myself to making endless applications. I didn't want to work a non-legal job, as it would be much less relevant to my career goal and might drain so much of my time and energy that I couldn't improve my applications. I'm considering working a event management/non-legal office admin job while I continue to make legal job applications, but I worry that law firms will doubt my passion for law and knowledge of the current legal world if I work a non-legal job for too long.
Are there any law graduates who are experiencing / experienced this stage of your career? How do / did you cope with this situation? I would appreciate any contribution.