Managing your career.
As a truly global law firm, there's no limit to what you might
achieve throughout your career. We offer you the scope and support
to carve out a path that suits your ambitions and aptitudes, and
it's important that you see your career as something you own,
manage and control. From day one, you need to be thinking about
what interests you, where your strengths lie and what you want to
achieve. When you think in this way, it's much easier to set
yourself achievable goals. If you are clear about what you want to
do, it will be easier to make it happen.
As you will see in the Personal
support section, there are plenty of people to help you get the
experience and exposure you need – but it will be up to you to
identify and exploit the opportunities.
Of course, getting to where you want to be depends on your
performance as well as your preferences. Our working environment is
one based on merit. And our most successful people have skills that
go well beyond technical legal knowledge: for example, they are
superb communicators and problem-solvers; they remain composed
under pressure; they build relationships with clients and inspire
confidence; and they are able to lead others to achieve great
results. We know what it takes to be a great lawyer and we know
what it takes to be a partner here. We know what distinguishes the
excellent performance from the very good. This means that, as you
plot the course of your career, we can help point you in the right
direction.
In the Career directions section of
this site, you can read more about the stages of promotion that
can, if you want them to, lead to partnership. Or about how you
might instead use Linklaters as a launch pad. Fundamentally, it's
about building both your legal knowledge and your wider business
skills to become the complete all-round performer. Whatever success
looks and feels like for you, Linklaters can provide the
opportunities and encouragement to achieve it. Then, you can choose
the direction in which you want it to take you.