What is new in the legal profession in the period of integration and globalization? Are the job prospects of this industry still open to welcome candidates?
The 4.0 revolution is affecting, changing all professions in society and not except the law profession. In particular, with the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the law industry is making innovations to stay connected and continue to operate. So, what are the current job prospects? What challenges does a law-oriented person need to face and overcome? Navigos Search will bring the most accurate answer through the information below!
1. The importance of the legal profession today
In the current integration period, the importance of the legal profession is increasingly affirmed and focused. For businesses, understanding the law is considered a "guideline" for all investment, production and business activities.
Therefore, no matter what industry a business operates, they need a legal department. In particular, foreign companies and corporations in Vietnam have a high demand for legal personnel. These things can show how important the legal profession is today.
The legal profession plays a very important role in all fields of activity
2. What is the demand for law enforcement personnel?
According to statistics from the Ministry of Justice, in 2020 alone, Vietnamese judicial titles will need about 13,000 lawyers, 2,300 judges, 2,000 notaries, 3,000 enforcers, and 300 judgment enforcement examiners. civil and bailiffs. Surely by now, these numbers will increase many times. That is also the reason why law job opportunities as well as human demand are being classified as developing industries.
In addition, in today's era, money is always used for investment and business opportunities, the Bachelor of Economic Law has more opportunities to become a financial consultant, providing decision-making services. correct and wise financial investment for customers. It can be affirmed that this is a promising industry.
3. Job opportunities
Having a "position" in the integration period, the law profession offers candidates many attractive job opportunities. When you are trained well at universities in the field of law, you can take on many different positions such as: Legal consultant and legal specialist, legal director at enterprises, judges, investigators, legislative, executive, judicial experts, lawyers at Courts, Procuracy, Departments of Justice, or directly conducting research, teaching on law,...
In the current labor market, the salary for the legal profession is considered to be quite high and stable. In fact, the salary in this field also depends on many factors such as working position, professional capacity and the development of the business.
Job opportunities and salary are quite attractive4. What are the challenges for people working in this industry?
Working in any field has its benefits and difficulties and the legal profession is no exception. Follow the content below to better understand the difficulties of working in this industry:
Lawmaking needs to "learn more, study forever"
To pursue a law degree, applicants must have completed at least four years of undergraduate training. If you want to go further in your career, you still need to study a graduate program or you can research advanced specialized programs and documents yourself. Not merely encapsulating 4 years of university but you need to cultivate and study more than that.
On the other hand, current domestic laws include hundreds and thousands of legal documents. They are not fixed but will always be revised and supplemented regularly to suit each period and stage of development of society and the country. Therefore, it is difficult for those working in the law industry to constantly update and supplement their legal knowledge and this may not stop on the path of career development.
Technology adaptability
The widening demand for law jobs means that the demand for skills is increasing. The impact of the 4.0 revolution requires greater human adaptability. Overwhelmed by major changes in technology and direction, old thinking will be a shock to law students and people working in this industry.
Most of the students who are still absorbing the traditional way of teaching law in universities will find it very difficult to access new technology if they do not study and train themselves. As for those who are practicing, they have been deeply influenced by the previous way of thinking and accessing technology is really not easy. This will be a big obstacle for the legal industry when human resources do not have access to and well manage legal-related technology.
Not only that, organizations and law firms are always looking for optimal solutions, selecting qualified and technologically proficient personnel to ensure the highest and most accurate working performance possible.
Competitive pressure, being eliminated
Every industry has certain difficulties and pressures. For the law industry, the competitive pressure in the industry and the pressure to be eliminated is very high. This is considered a great difficulty when studying law, which many people have to be wary of and constantly learn to stay firmly in the profession.
There are many difficulties in the profession that need to be overcomeIt's easy to give up if you're not really passionate
In any profession, wanting to succeed requires effort and passion. If you choose to study law in the direction of your relatives, family or follow the job trend because the law profession has a high income, it is very difficult to go far and stick with the profession for a long time. In particular, legal knowledge is considered quite dry. Indeed, if you are not really passionate and enthusiastic, you will not be persistent enough to overcome difficulties leading to depression. Even if you hold on, the work results will not be highly effective.
In addition, the nature of the law profession requires you to train yourself to be rigorous, serious, objective and honest, so you must orient yourself towards a clear career development path.
Every field has its pros and cons, and as long as you are passionate, make good efforts, you will easily overcome them all. Hopefully the above sharing of Navigos Search will help you be more confident on the path you have chosen and please share the article if you find it useful.
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