Sky
Interesting selling points
- As Europe's leading media and entertainment company, working at Sky can provide ample opportunities to work on a number of exciting, high profile matters (TV shows, movies, live sport events and so on).
- Such a breadth of products and services that employees will likely have exposure to a uniquely broad range of work, and many facets of the media industry. This is supported by trainees rotating between a number of different departments.
- Great opportunities for professional development, with access to Sky's learning and development programme, access to a range of personal and professional development tools including seminars, workshops and digital courses, plus ongoing guidance from a training principal, a manager, colleagues in the legal team, and other colleagues across the business.
- A solid balance between classic "in-house" and "private practice" structures, with "multiple legal teams working right across Sky’s business including content, competition, consumer, marketing, data protection, litigation, IP and technology – each with a wide range of subject-matter expertise".
- Closer to the business than you would be as an external (e.g. private practice) adviser. There will likely be opportunities not just to work on projects from start to finish, but also to see the product of your work materialise (as opposed to working on a siloed legal issue as an external adviser and having little insight into what happens once you're done).
- Opportunities to work alongside and learn from a broad range of non-legal teams, including employees from commercial, operations, sales and marketing teams. This might provide opportunities to give more commercial (i.e. business-centric) advice alongside legal advice, which might help you to become a more well-rounded professional adviser.
- You're likely to develop a broader practice and enjoy a greater variety of work in the long term, as you tend to specialise to a lesser extent in house.
- Sky has been recognised as an "Inclusive Top 50 Employer".