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Stress: any progress on the common enemy?
Six years after the Scottish Young Lawyers Association (SYLA) revealed how solicitors viewed mental health in the workplace, the Law Society's Careers and Wellbeing Manager, Olivia Moore, puts it back under the microscope for Stress Awareness Week to understand how far we’ve come and what’s left to do.
Developing resilience for law: An essential skill or an excuse for poor working practices?
Olivia Moore, Careers & Wellbeing Manager at the Law Society of Scotland, explores resilience and how much it's within our own ability to develop, or when it's unduly influenced by structural or cultural barriers at work.
Profile of the Profession: Why do we ask you about your wellbeing?
Ensuring a healthy, sustainable profession is at the heart of our work, making it vital we understand as much as we can about our members' wellbeing, explains our Careers and Wellbeing Manager Olivia Moore.
Stressed to impress - putting the legal sector on a healthier footing
Olivia Moore, Careers and Wellbeing Manager at the Law Society of Scotland, discusses how widespread stress is among lawyers and the key drivers that contribute to stress becoming unmanageable.
Why leading by example matters for wellbeing
Olivia Moore, Careers & Wellbeing Manager at the Law Society of Scotland, kicks off our blog series tackling some of the questions we received during our recent annual conference session on wellbeing, by discussing the importance of leading by example.
First year trainee roadshows are back
Olivia Moore, Careers & Wellbeing Manager, talks about the events we're running for new first year trainees in October and why you should sign up (or encourage your trainees to sign up!) and come along.
What you need to know about law fairs in 2022
Olivia Moore, Careers & Wellbeing Manager at the Law Society, talks about how students can prepare for a law fair, covers a few things to avoid and gives you all the key dates for your calendar.
The student summer switch-off
Olivia Moore, Careers & Wellbeing Manager at the Law Society of Scotland, reflects on how focusing on wellbeing during the summer break can be an essential career-development strategy for law students.
Reflections on how to run a valuable virtual work experience programme
In order to gain insights into how firms and organisations might adapt to run a successful virtual or hybrid summer placement this year, Olivia Moore speaks to Burness Paull and CMS about the programmes they ran last year.
Regaining a sense of connectivity, certainty and control
For April's Stress Awareness Month, our Careers and Wellbeing Manager Olivia Moore explores its key themes of connectivity, certainty and control, and offers some practical tips.
Marking mental health days is so much more than a tick-box exercise
Olivia Moore, Careers and Wellbeing Manager at the Law Society of Scotland, discusses how marking mental health days can be an important way for employers to engage staff, break down stigma and raise confidence to speak about mental health issues.
Covid careers: navigating a path through a foggy future
Careers are rarely linear, yet that doesn't make the unexpected twists and turns any less daunting when they happen. Olivia Moore, our Careers & Wellbeing Manager, discusses the impact of coronavirus on careers and asks if you have a story to share of an unexpected career journey that could help others for our new careers blog series.
Demystifying contextualised recruitment for students
Olivia Moore, Careers & Wellbeing Manager at the Law Society of Scotland, explains contextualised recruitment for students, as these systems designed to enable fair access are becoming more common in graduate recruitment.
Developing a wellbeing strategy for a high street practice post-coronavirus
Following on from a workshop with high street practitioners Olivia Moore, Careers Development Officer at the Law Society of Scotland, lays out some simple steps for smaller employers to include in a wellbeing strategy following the coronavirus pandemic.
Flexible working and 'walking the talk'
Olivia Moore works in Careers & Outreach at the Law Society of Scotland. In this piece she uses the story of one prospective trainee to examine why employers might want to improve their flexible working practices to accommodate the next generation of solicitors.
5 questions to explain contextualised recruitment and our pilot scheme with Rare
You may have heard recently of 'contextualised recruitment' that firms like Pinsent Masons, Dickson Minto and Morton Fraser are implementing via a company called Rare. It's designed to improve social mobility, but what does it all mean?