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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!
I was very much thinking about my USPs and how I could sell myself to firms. I decided my ability to speak a few foreign languages was probably my best asset so Polyglot seemed like an obvious choice.
Thank you, that's really helpful. I recently completed the SST for Kennedys and my understanding was that the feedback format is always three strengths/one weakness regardless of how well candidates perform against one another.
Jessica, is there any chance you could expand on this? What do you meant by 'what isn't there'? Thank you for all of your comments, it is hugely helpful to have a recruiter's perspective.
Congratulations on your VS offer - amazing news!
I would also just add to all of the excellent advice that I tend to do a simple check-in with myself when my thoughts start running away with me. I think I may have even read about this on here, so apologies for lack of credit.
I am in a very...
Thank you! I'm over the moon, just miss the chance to celebrate with friends, but really things could be an awful lot worse. Counting my blessing today as I am a career changer so very much aware things don't always go smoothly the first time round.
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Thank you so much! Just wanted to say I was offered a place for the CMS Academy this Tuesday and it is still sinking in. Thank you again for the article, it definitely helped!
I don't really want to talk about specifics on an open forum, but do feel free to PM me with your feedback and we can talk about my results as well.
My understanding of these tests is that they are designed to give 3 strengths and 1 weakness, but will not compare individuals against their...
Thank you! It's with CMS and I'd love to work for them. This forum has helped me a lot with preparation; it's invaluable and a real eye-opener in terms of how much hard work it takes to secure a TC.
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