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From AI to Energy Deals: Inside a Full-Service Law Firm with Osborne Clarke
8 Dec 2025 · 6pm (UK)
Zoom · Registration Required
You want to write a strong Osborne Clarke application — but what really makes the firm different, and how do trainees experience the work day-to-day?
In this session, you’ll hear directly from current trainees and Recruitment Advisor Patrick Fermin Ryan, so you can speak with clarity and specificity in your applications and interviews.
I believe (and hope) that this experience was an anomaly - many of my international friends have secured VS & TC offers this cycle & the feedback from my other AC did not focus on my background in the slightest! As non-natives, we unfortunately have extra hurdles in the recruitment process...
Nothing substantive/ something I can improve upon; I was told I got "excellent scores" in all components and was a strong candidate, but that it came down to these "details" in making a decision.
Just got feedback post AC, and I was rejected because my interviewers were "uncertain about my commitment to the UK" (international candidate, recent graduate from RG London, some work experience in my home country). I am not sure how my interviewers assumed that given: I was not asked anything...
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