“People increasingly ask employers ‘what can you do for me?’” says Clare Roberts, a human resources (HR) consultant with PA Consulting. “Ten years ago, that would have been unheard of. They have a different attitude to work and employers are having to rethink their proposition to potential recruits.”
The economic boom enjoyed since the turn of the millennium has had a profound effect on the UK’s lawyers. The tables have turned, from hundreds of lawyers chasing one job in the early 1990s, to law firms chasing potential recruits.
