Graduate recruitment team

Here at Muckle, we take great pride in our people, the culture of the firm and our values, which shape everything we do. Ensuring that we recruit the right people who share the same ethos and genuinely want to be part of that team is hugely important. As one of our trainee supervisors, I have the pleasure of working closely with our trainees in the real estate department each seat rotation. I thoroughly enjoy our graduate recruitment process and being able to meet enthusiastic, curious and brilliant candidates who want to be part of the firm’s future. Hopefully you enjoy the process as much as we do!

Muckle has always prided itself on the advice and service it gives to its clients. The quality of advice and service we can offer is entirely dependent upon the quality of the people who are employed by the Firm to provide it. The process of recruiting new trainees is therefore critical to ensuring the future success of the business and I enjoy being involved in that task. In particular, I like meeting the increasingly diverse range of applicants who apply to us for training contracts. As someone who went through the graduate recruitment process at Muckle, and who has subsequently been here for almost ten years, I believe I know what we are looking for in a trainee, and also what prospective trainees are looking for from us. So it’s good to think I can apply that knowledge to assist in making a valuable contribution to the future of the Firm.

Graduate recruitment is a vital aspect of the Firm’s development as we need to continually attract passionate, enthusiastic, and talented people who will contribute to its future success. So it isn’t a cliché to say trainees are the future of the Firm and I really enjoy leading the Team in the challenge we have of choosing the right trainees from the many high-quality people who apply to us. It’s fantastic to meet so many enthusiastic people who want a career in law and with Muckle in particular, and it’s also very rewarding to see trainees develop and progress their careers with us.

Muckle places great emphasis and takes pride in its people and its culture, therefore it is important that we find the right individuals who will fit well with the Firm, and who have the skills to develop what we do and grow our team. Being on the Graduate Recruitment Team means that I can take part in the process of finding the right people to join the team here at Muckle. Having applied to Muckle in 2011 and gone through the recruitment process, including a week long summer vacation placement (following some initial work experience in the Real Estate team whilst at School), I was very interested in getting involved in the Graduate Recruitment Team so that I can use the experience that I have had to help future candidates.

Our graduate recruitment process is a little different to most law firms and we hope that it allows you to showcase your true potential as a trainee solicitor and beyond. Having been through many (!) training contract application processes, I can honestly say I enjoyed Muckle’s the most, and hope that you will too! 

The graduate recruitment team relish getting to know each candidate – Muckle’s values are fundamental to how we operate as a firm, and finding the right cultural fit for us is very important. I’m looking forward to reading your application and hearing about why you want to train at Muckle!

As a trainee supervisor I have the pleasure of working closely with many of our fantastic trainees. I care deeply about finding brilliant, enthusiastic, passionate and curious people who will buy in to Muckle’s culture and values and contribute to its long term success. I’m keen to ensure candidates gain a useful insight into what being part of the Muckle team feels like, so they can also be confident that we are the right fit for them and their future career.

Having gone through the graduate recruitment process with Muckle and taken part in their vacation placement, it’s great to be part of the Graduate Recruitment Team and (hopefully) help to make the process as enjoyable for current and future candidates as it was for me.

Muckle prides itself on its people and culture and recruits trainees with the intention of retaining them long-term, so finding the right candidates who understand our ethos and have a genuine desire to work here is paramount.

Most law firms say they are proud of their ‘culture’ but, as someone who went through the Graduate Recruitment process and trained at Muckle, I can honestly say that we live by our values and the firm on our website is an accurate representation of what it is really like to work here. We have a strongly defined culture that guides everything we do; that’s why it is so important that we recruit people who understand what we are trying to achieve and genuinely want to work here. We like to think we are a little bit different, so hopefully, you will enjoy the process and we really look forward to meeting you!