Using the Success Profiles recruitment framework, you will be asked to demonstrate how you meet the essential criteria listed below.

At application stage, you will be assessed on the following criteria:

Technical Legal Skills

  • Sound understanding of public law.
  • Reliable legal judgement and appreciation of legal risk.
  • The ability to think strategically and creatively, see legal issues in their wider context and advise accordingly.
  • Sound analysis, using secure legal research to produce timely and fit for purpose advice.

Motivational Fit

  • We need to know how well our requirements and offerings match your aspirations.
  • An understanding of the role of lawyers in government.
  • Please outline why you are motivated to join the Government Legal Department and how you feel you might contribute effectively to a role with GLD.

At interview stage, you will be assessed on the following criteria, alongside strength-based questions:

Technical Legal Skills

  • Sound understanding of public law.
  • Reliable legal judgement and appreciation of legal risk.
  • The ability to think strategically and creatively, see legal issues in their wider context and advise accordingly.
  • Sound analysis, using secure legal research to produce timely and fit for purpose advice.

Motivational Fit

  • We need to know how well our requirements and offerings match your aspirations.
  • An understanding of the role of lawyers in government.
  • Please outline why you are motivated to join the Government Legal Department and how you feel you might contribute effectively to a role with GLD.

Working Together

  • Actively build and maintain a network of colleagues and contacts to achieve progress on shared objectives.
  • Challenge assumptions while being willing to compromise if beneficial to progress.
  • Create an inclusive working environment where all opinions and challenges are taken into account and bullying, harassment and discrimination are unacceptable.

Communicating and Influencing

  • Communicate with others in a clear, honest and enthusiastic way in order to build trust.
  • Deliver difficult messages with clarity and sensitivity, being persuasive when required.
  • Explain complex issues in a way that is easy to understand.

Managing a Quality Service

  • Demonstrate positive customer service by understanding the complexity and diversity of customer needs and expectations.
  • Deliver a high quality, efficient and cost effective service by considering a broad range of methods for delivery.
  • Proactively manage risks and identify solutions.

For further information about Civil Service recruitment processes and Success Profiles, please visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/success-profiles

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