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17 December 2025
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Join Isabel Elsey, Legal Recruitment Manager at BCLP, for a live Q&A session. Get details on secondments, innovation, growth areas, and everything else you’ve wanted to ask about life at BCLP!
Morning everyone,
I am planning to apply to A&O and there are two questions to answer?
Please describe the key learnings/skills you’ve gained through work experience, positions of responsibility, personal experience or extracurricular activities. (250 words)
Outline how you would apply these...
Hi Daniel,
I get your point and I am more or less aware of what sections need more work. My results are not bad but I get nervous when I have to perform the actual live test. However, I find discouraging to not know what I am doing wrong in that particular circumstance.
I do not know, but I sent them an email requesting my WG results because I need to know what I am doing wrong.
I am going to send my request 3 times, if they do not answer then I am going to send a freedom of information request. How am I supposed to improve if I do not know my mistakes?
It means all the things above but their website states that a WG will be automatically sent after two days..so probably we will all receive a WG on Monday/Tuesday and if we pass it they will review our apps.
Breaking news
I am attending Skadden Open day and the GRM is only mentioning transferable skills and that you do not need legal experience to get a TC.
Naaa...yesterday I had an interview and the builders started drilling outside my window..o well fine by me..but it was almost time for the interview and my fiancé and I had to tape pillows around the window and get the lamps around the desk.
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