What we look for
We welcome people with from all types of backgrounds and experiences. We don't have a rigid profile of what makes a Shoosmiths employee, but we do value a number of attributes:
- Commercial awareness: understanding the effects of decisions made and the implications for the client and the firm.
- Pulling together: building relationships with key clients internally and externally to create an environment for effective decision-making and where team capability and expertise is utilised.
- Taking initiative: harnessing innovation and entrepreneurial acumen with a willingness to challenge the status quo, move out of your comfort zone and embrace new ideas.
- Being responsive: understanding and challenging ambiguity and uncertainty, simplifying complex issues and progressing plans to solve them.