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The document provides a skills analysis framework for law students applying to chambers, emphasizing the importance of understanding the values and skills sought by potential employers. It outlines key competencies such as commercial awareness, professional skills, communication, self-management, teamwork, adaptability, client-centeredness, networking, planning, analytical skills, and leadership. Students are encouraged to reflect on their experiences and identify ways to enhance their skills in these areas.

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Skills Analysis Table

The document provides a skills analysis framework for law students applying to chambers, emphasizing the importance of understanding the values and skills sought by potential employers. It outlines key competencies such as commercial awareness, professional skills, communication, self-management, teamwork, adaptability, client-centeredness, networking, planning, analytical skills, and leadership. Students are encouraged to reflect on their experiences and identify ways to enhance their skills in these areas.

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BPP LAW SCHOOL LEGAL COVER LETTERS SKILLS ANALYSIS

BRIDGE TO THE BAR

WHAT CHAMBERS ARE LOOKING


FOR

SKILLS ANALYSIS

Skills analysis

Look at the website of chambers that you are interested in applying to. What are their
values? What sort of skills and attributes are they looking for in the candidates
applying to them?

Complete the table below, including examples of how you meet the skills and
experience needed. List all the examples that you have for each skill. Use all sources
including your studies, hobbies/interests, work experience/volunteering,
shadowing/marshalling, competitions, and any involvement in student societies. Also
complete the final column to show how you will gain more exposure in each
competency. There is space at the end for you to add any additional skills that the
chambers you have researched may specifically look for in graduates.

Chambers’ Values or Skills Required: Examples of where I have What can I do to enhance my
demonstrated this: skills in this area:
Commercial Awareness
 Understands how businesses
operate (e.g. pressure on
costs/profit).
 Awareness of wider
socioeconomic issues and
effects on business.
 Strong knowledge of industry
trends and challenges.
Professional skills
 Understanding of the legal
profession.
 Awareness of business
etiquette.
 Communicates professionally
with others.
Good communication & Advocacy
 Understands the audience.
 Adapts style to suit different
individuals. Checks for audience

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understanding.
 Communicates to different
stakeholders.
 Confident and persuasive
advocate.
Self-management
 Can work comfortably on own.
 Proactively manages own
workload.
 Organises self effectively &
plans effectively by setting
milestones.
Team working
 Understands own and different
roles in the team.
 Aware of strengths and
weaknesses of others.
 Shares common goals with
team members.
Adaptability, flexibility and resilience
 Able to overcome barriers &
stays motivated in face of
difficulties.
 Takes action before being told
to.
 Motivates others and brings
along with them.
 Makes opportunities from
obstacles.
 Can adapt to different
approaches.

Client-centred
 Awareness of client needs.
 Builds rapport with clients.
 Takes action to exceed client
requirements.
 Can manage difficult or complex
customer requirements.

Networking and relationship building


 Proactively identifies
opportunities to build new
contacts.

 Evidence of actions taken to


build rapport with clients.

 Takes the lead in following up


and maintaining client
relationships.

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Planning and being well-organised


 Able to provide details of
numerous deadlines faced at
the same time.

 Provides details of several


methods of how planned their
time.

 Can explain how prioritised


tasks and the method used to
determine this.

Analytical skills
 Uses variety of relevant
resources to research.

 Provides evidence of narrowing


down information effectively and
ensuring information is accurate.

 Presents information in a
compelling way and
understands impact on the
business.

Leadership

 Understands goals and


motivations of team overall and
as individuals.

 Understands strengths and


weaknesses of team members
and delegates tasks
accordingly.

 Can motive others and adapt to


others’ needs.

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