In cases where the trainee-adviser pairing does not have that special spark, other faculty members can serve as mentors for the trainee, as can more senior students or postdocs.
But non-law students shouldn't worry, says Jillian Dent, trainee recruitment adviser at the London office of international law firm Norton Rose Fulbright.
After graduation in 2003, he joined UBS, becoming a investment adviser trainee in London a few years later.
Shortly after graduation in 2003, he joined UBS, becoming a investment adviser trainee in London a few years later.
He joined the bank as an investment adviser trainee in London shortly after graduating from Nottingham University in 2003, and eventually worked his way up to the Delta One desk, a plain-vanilla version of derivatives trading.
This article was amended on 25 June to correct a job title, changing Jillian Dent from trainee development and recruitment adviser to trainee recruitment adviser.
Guided by expert knowledge from a panel of science-focused career advisers, each trainee's self-assessment is used to rank a set of career trajectories.
While conducting a training exercise for bank examiners from the Afghan Central Bank, the report says, a Bearing Point adviser told the trainees that the Central Bank had the power to remove the management of Kabul Bank.
Career 2002-present: Conservative deputy leader, Hillingdon council, west London; 1997-2002; a number of jobs as a financial adviser starting as a graduate trainee at Eagle Star, then moving on to roles at LloydsTSB then HSBC.
But until the trainee takes the big step to inform the adviser, nothing will change".
