Recent content by Giles

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    Ask A Graduate Recruiter Anything!

    Hi @Jessica Booker I am hoping to get some further guidance regarding reapplying. I appreciate that the guidance is to not submit the same application, however I am wondering to what extent the new application needs to be different from the original? I have just been rejected from a winter...
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    General Discussion Thread 2020-21

    Hey! I have been looking ALL week for someone to answer this but in the end had to bite the bullet and take the assessment. But thought I would share my insight as soon as I had completed it to help out. The written exercise is 12 minutes in total to read and write. The article is not really an...
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    Book recommendations?

    You may or may not have heard of an author called Oliver Sacks, but any of his books are absolutely fascinating. He was an incredibly intelligent neurologist and his books are collections of really well written anecdotes based on patients and people he had worked with. My favourite two are: "The...
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    Hearing Back from Firms + AC & Interview Tips Share - 2018 - 2019

    I second this for Sidley- been over a month since i submitted the application, and considering they had said that they review apps on a rolling basis in their email this seems like a long time... anyone else?
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    Hearing Back from Firms + AC & Interview Tips Share - 2018 - 2019

    The video interview- I think you implied in your comment that you completed it? I was just wondering if you had any tips- I will probably sit it in the next day or two.
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    Hearing Back from Firms + AC & Interview Tips Share - 2018 - 2019

    I am yet to sit the S&S interview this week- how did yours go? Any tips for preparation?

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