At Allens, our ambition is to create a rewarding and supportive work environment that underpins our values where there are outstanding levels of achievement, energy, career development and opportunity.
Your career
In addition to our secondment opportunities, other personal and professional development opportunities we offer you include:
- MyCareer, our online career management resource that will equip you with the tools and information you require to manage your career;
- Leave of Absence (LOA), granted to employees wishing to pursue professional or personal development goals. Some of our employees who are currently on LOA are on scholarships to some of the world's top universities; working as judges' associates; working for pro bono organisations or at leading international law firms;
- Women@AAR – an initiative aimed to retain and enhance the development and promotion of our women by: supporting women to grow strong relationships internally with colleagues and externally with clients; and providing support for career development through effective skills training, goal setting and career planning;
- a comprehensive induction program focusing on immediately useful and relevant skills;
- a comprehensive training program for all lawyers in the first two years of your career;
- a formal buddy and mentoring program;
- continuing technical training delivered by senior lawyers and partners in departments and practice groups via regular seminars and workshops;
- Arena – as a junior lawyer we provide you with an opportunity to build skills in dealing with clients, relationship building and hosting functions, with an aim to eventually building your own practice; and
- study assistance.
Your life
As a key component of our firm's people strategy and led by our Managing Partner, Michael Rose, we support you in working flexibly to achieve your work and personal goals, such as study, leisure activities, maintaining a healthy lifestyle, contributing to the community and spending quality time with friends and family.
Our approach to flexibility is broad, as we anticipate that your need for flexibility will vary at different life stages, at different ages, and as your family commitments change. Flexibility is more than just establishing a flexible work arrangement; it is about how, when, and where work is done and empowering you to develop efficient and effective work practices that benefit you and the firm.
With this in mind, we have created a number of initiatives under our Life & Work program:
- Flexible leave policies, including an Additional Annual Leave policy, and a Purchased Annual Leave policy, allowing you the opportunity to purchase an additional two weeks' annual leave per year.
- Flexible work policies including Job-share, Flexible Working Hours, Part-time, and Working from Home policies.
- Managing the Transition programs:
- Families and work. This program includes professional coaching sessions, keeping-in-touch and buddy programs, childcare information kits for mothers and fathers, and paid parental leave for parents.
- Eldercare. This program includes information kits that provide valuable resources to our employees faced with the financial and emotional challenges of caring for an elderly relative.
- A Life & Work intranet site dedicated to promote, communicate and foster a culture of flexibility and wellbeing.
- A LiveWell site focusing on education, motivation, and health and well-being initiatives across all of our offices.
Your benefits
Some of the many benefits offered to you by the firm are listed below.
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