if I get a degree in law do I need to have a career in law no you don't and in
this video I show you five careers you can have with a law degree time stamps
below if you want to skip to see it at parts what we're starting right now but
not before my name is Joshua and in this channel I'm all about helping you on
your educational journey and in this video series particularly I'm showing
you what careers open up to you with certain degrees so if you have a
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like what you see please consider subscribing so the first one let's just
get it out the way it is working in the law industry you might be on this video
because you want to look at the alternatives as I said timestamps below
but yes working in the law industry typically as a solicitor it could be a
barrister or a paralegal I think qualifying as a solicitor is the
common route people would take it means you can work pretty much anywhere you
could be a one-man show you can work for a local firm a small firm or you can go
big business you can go big company or even big organizations or national like
the government's a barrister is a little bit different you tend to be
self-employed and be a tenant in chambers and you approach the law a
little bit differently but you can also be a paralegal now a lot of people might
hear this and think I'm not going to study a whole law degree just become a
paralegal then what paralegalgoes out there you are doing a better job than
those with a law degree you can go into the management of a law firm not
strictly practicing law but managing those who do
law enforcement's it might be that you prefer to enforce the law and don't
think I just mean being a police officer although there are increasing numbers of
those police officers with law degrees a law degree could help you with many
careers within the police force there's even areas where you assist the
police in matters of the law such as being a police lawyer being responsible
with prosecution files well worth having a look around the careers website the
civil service this might actually surprise you is one of the more common
places for law graduates then it may surprise your favor but the civil
service actually has a very competitive fast-track scheme for graduates you know
so if you are interested in working in the more behind-the-scenes area of
Governments you know think about identity and passport control Ministry
of Defense things like that then the Civil Service might be for you which
ultimately the Civil Service it's about being in the mind of a politician and
translating that for the public to use
politics now it might not be behind the scenes of governments you're interested
in but more for front politics and if it is politics you're interested in you
might be pleased to know a lot of law graduates headed to that direction
either as elected officials or people who help run the campaign believe it or
not there's actually a lot of laws and regulations surrounding a campaign and
your job would be to make sure that this campaign is well within the law well
within regulations and you're not going to get your elected official into any
trouble but you might also want involvements in shaping laws of the
future you might want to start building an influence so you can help shape the
world to be a better place or how you see it to be
lastly HR and labour relations I mean if you're gonna spend hours studying
employment law then you may sure get something out of it and a career in HR
might be for you HR ultimately its like that middleman between employee and
employer making sure both sides are happy and resolving situations where one
side isn't happy with the other now this could be protecting the company from any
legal responsibilities such a situation happen such as an accident at work which
goes to courts it could be protecting the company against any risk of unlawful
dismissal making sure that everything is done by the book or you could be
protecting the employee helping them with any legal problems of their own and
your biggest challenge is gonna be making sure that both sides are happy
and that's my five careers that you can do with a law degree if you think I've
missed anything else just leave them below below up important the salaries if
you think I'm out of place let me know below as well if you like me to look at
top careers for a different degree choice let me know in the comments below
but also have a look around my channel because I might have already done it
this video has been made on the back of another video where I showed you how to
get involved in a degree in law it'll be around up here if you want to see and if
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video bye bye law and no you don't and then this then it might surprise you fit