Your Options
You have decided that you're "on the market" and you are going to see what's out there. What should your CV look like and what's going happen at interview?
The CV
An accurate, concise document that professionally reflects your experience and responsibility to date. Academics need to be included and that means 'A' level grades and degree results. Yes, they are relevant and No, we don't accept that you cannot remember. Even our oldest consultant (and they are really old) can remember their 'O' level/GSCE grades and subjects, so remembering 'A' level grades shouldn't be so difficult. Where this sort of information is missing from a CV, the reader assumes the worst (the very worst) so come clean and let us give you some advice on handling objections and hurdles.
Additionally, there should be some information about the work you have done in training. Don't exaggerate it in an attempt to make yourself more marketable, but do give sufficient detail to give a good flavour of the breadth of experience and range of responsibility you have had. Don't claim to have been the right hand man to the partner's, £10 billion transaction, when all you did was run out for their sandwiches! Partners who read your CV will know how much they expect their own trainees to have done in one seat and will simply want to know you have had a similar basic grounding and understanding in your chosen area.
