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<blockquote data-quote="Andrei Radu" data-source="post: 207741" data-attributes="member: 36777">Hi [USER=35776]@pepsicola96[/USER] I just wanted to say that I do not think having a graduate job in another field would make it seem like you are not committed to law. In my vacation schemes I have met people who had had a wide variety of graduate jobs, from sales &amp; trading and consulting to pharmaceuticals. Firms are well aware that (i) getting graduate law jobs, particularly from a STEM background, is extremely difficult, and (ii) that many people simply need a graduate job in one field or another to fund their cost of living. As such, I doubt having such a job would ever count against you. I am actually tempted to affirm the opposite. Having applied for, secured, and worked in another role will show firms you have the right sort of attitude (in that you do not want to be idle and &quot;waste&quot; a gap year); and secondly, you will probably be able to leverage the work itself to demonstrate you have formed valuable transferable skills. I think your decision-making should therefore not be impacted to much by your view as to of what a firm's perception of it might be. Rather, I would try to compare the benefits of the increased expected job security with the potential decrease in chances of securing a VS (assuming such a decrease would result from a lower amount of time you are able to dedicate to VS-related efforts).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Andrei Radu, post: 207741, member: 36777"] Hi [USER=35776]@pepsicola96[/USER] I just wanted to say that I do not think having a graduate job in another field would make it seem like you are not committed to law. In my vacation schemes I have met people who had had a wide variety of graduate jobs, from sales & trading and consulting to pharmaceuticals. Firms are well aware that (i) getting graduate law jobs, particularly from a STEM background, is extremely difficult, and (ii) that many people simply need a graduate job in one field or another to fund their cost of living. As such, I doubt having such a job would ever count against you. I am actually tempted to affirm the opposite. Having applied for, secured, and worked in another role will show firms you have the right sort of attitude (in that you do not want to be idle and "waste" a gap year); and secondly, you will probably be able to leverage the work itself to demonstrate you have formed valuable transferable skills. I think your decision-making should therefore not be impacted to much by your view as to of what a firm's perception of it might be. Rather, I would try to compare the benefits of the increased expected job security with the potential decrease in chances of securing a VS (assuming such a decrease would result from a lower amount of time you are able to dedicate to VS-related efforts). [/QUOTE]

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