Law Recruitment Fair 2010
When will this event be taking place
How can exhibitors prepare for this event
If you are a student please click here to be automatically redirected to the student fair page.
Date: 27 October 2010
Time: 1.30pm - 4.30pm
Venue: Great Hall, City University main campus
Attendance fee: £400 + VAT (organisations with less than 200 employees as well as not-for-profit organisations will be offered a 50% discount. Organisations with less than 50 employees and NGOs will be offered a free place). You can also choose to sponsor a section of the fair brochure to gain extra exposure and generate more interest in your opportunities. Sponsor this event or Make a donation for our Prize Draw!
This event is sponsored by Macfarlanes LLP.
Organisations that have confirmed their attendance: 2 Temple Gardens, Allen & Overy LLP, Bar Council & Inns of Court, Blackstone Chambers, Chambers and Partners, Denton Wilde Sapte LLP, Free Representation Unit, Macfarlanes LLP, Travers Smith and many more!
Target audience
The fair will be primarily aimed at Law students but will be open to students from other courses as well, who are thinking of pursuing a career in law. The event will be open to students from all UK Universities. First year students are encouraged to attend so that they can research organisations and vacation opportunities. Further information about the range of courses at City and their academic content can be found here.
Aim of the event
Our aim is to help both our students and recruiting firms and chambers by giving them the opportunity to meet and discuss recruitment plans and practices. We hope the event will be a chance for you to share with prospective applicants what you expect of them and how they can make the most of their applications to you.
Students would expect to meet with company representatives as well as human resources/recruitment staff who are well informed about the organisation and able to provide insight into the job tasks, company culture and career paths you offer.
Attendance and Marketing
This is one of our largest recruitment fairs on campus, and is early in our Autumn Term, when interest from students is at its height. We are running the fair on a Wednesday afternoon, when no lectures are being held at the University (all lectures finish at 12/1pm) to ensure maximum attendance. The fair will be broadly advertised on our website and intranet, through email alerts to academic departments and students and via brochures and posters around campus.
Law at City
Law has been taught at City since 1977. The GDL course in particular is one of the largest and most respected in the UK, with a strong reputation with the Bar and amongst City law firms. The other academic programmes include LLB degrees - in Law, a unique programme in Law and Property Valuation and a graduate entry LLB - and a specialist LLM programme which includes International Law, Human Rights, Environmental Law and Criminal Litigation, with a route in International Commercial Law, including options to specialise in International Competition Law and Maritime Law. More information on the above courses as well as our BVC and LPC provision can be found at http://www.city.ac.uk/law/ .
This is an excellent opportunity for you to raise your profile on campus and generate high quality applications at the very start of the recruitment season, ensuring that final and pre-final year students are aware of you and your graduate vacancies and work experience opportunities
Exhibitor package
The attendance fee for our 2010 fair is £400 + VAT(firms with less than 200 employees as well as not-for-profit organisations will be offered a 50% discount). This covers:
- Company information and logo in the fair catalogue. Copies will be available to students in print and online before and after the fair. You will also have the opportunity to place additional advertisement within the brochure. Costs are outlined on our booking form.
- Hyperlink to your website from our student pages.
- Your company name with a link to your website on all email alerts sent prior to the event
- Company name on all posters produced for the event
- A table and two chairs will be provided for each stand. Companies are welcome to bring their own promotional stands (note that maximum stand width accommodated is 2.5 metres and we cannot supply electrical power for lights and power points)
- Friendly student support for setting up and clearing away
- Light buffet lunch before the event
- Refreshments (tea, coffee) available during the event.
Fair Sponsorship
Please note that the sponsorship package for this fair has already been taken. Please contact us directly for other sponsorship opportunities.
Sponsoring a fair is a great way to show your interest towards our students and enhancing your brand awareness to them. We are open to suggestions on how you see your brand and image can be advertised, to enable maximum exposure.
A fair sponsorship usually covers:
• Free and central stand space at a fair of your interest
• Your logo on all advertising material (in print and online)
• Backside colour advert on the fair catalogue and front page company logo.
• Full page 500-word editorial in the fair catalogue (1000 copies to be produced)
• "Sponsored by"- text and company logo in the fair posters (distributed in key locations across campus)
• Your recruitment literature available in central location at the Careers Centre
• Special email sent to all students a week before the fair informing them of your presence at the fair and the opportunities you have available (the email can be customised according to your preferences and will only be sent subject to your approval)
• Thank You message and link to your website on the fair web-page from now and up to 3 months after the event.
• Free PR opportunities with editorials being published in the University’s staff and student e-newsletters both prior as well as immediately after the event. The sponsor’s name will be mentioned in all these publications
• Full report on fair attendance statistics along with evidence of all the advertising and PR our sponsor has received (available 1 month after the event).
The fair sponsorship fee is set at £900+VAT, which covers
- cost of fair brochure production (1000 copies distributed before and during the fair as well as throughout the year in the Careers Centre)
- cost of catering at fair day
- cost of marketing material
Please note that we only have 1 major sponsor for each of our fairs – we hope that this will give you greater brand exposure and enhance your presence on campus.
Prize Draws
We often have prize draws for students who attend our Career fairs and we are constantly looking for employers to sponsor these. The prizes can be anything from ipods, mobile phones, laptops and memory sticks to work shadowing opportunities, language courses and weekend breaks. We have found this type of initiatives get students interested and are an excellent way of raising your profile on campus. As a sponsor of one -or all - of the prizes, your name, along with a link to your website will be in all advertising material (online and hard copy) produced for the specific event.
Previous Law Fairs
Our 2009/10 fair was sponsored by Macfarlanes LLP
Organisations attended our 2009 fair: Allen & Overy LLP, Bar Counci, Denton Wilde Sapte LLP, Free Representation Unit, Government Legal Service, Legal Services Commission, Lewis Silkin LLP, Lawrence Graham LLP, Linklaters LLP, Macfarlanes LLP, Travers Smith, Blackstone Chambers, Chambers and Partners, Ministry of Justice, KM Legal Advisory Limited, Civil Service, Advocates for International Development, AIRE Centre, LawCareers.Net, Prisoners Advice Service, Monckton Chambers and PwC Legal
Feedback from previous events:
“Thanks for all your efforts” (Steeles)
“Lots of communication from careers service, well informed” (PwC)
“This is the first year that we have attended. I thought the candidates were well prepared and of a good quality, thank you!” (Lawrence Graham)
"An excellent event. We were very pleased to be invited and feel that our stand generated a lot of interest" (Ministry of Justice)
"Please put us down for next year's Law Fair. I received very good feedback from the lawyers who attended. They said the calibre of students was excellent" (Goverment Legal Service)
View pictures of our previous fairs at http://lawfaircityunilondon.blogspot.com/
Request a booking form
For further information and to request a booking form you can contact Eleni Antoniou on 020 7040 0160 or email eleni.antoniou.1@city.ac.uk
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