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SHL Test
I think I've done this test twice now - it's not that popular for law firms. Have unfortunately gone down a bit of a rabbit hole and it seems that you can practise a lot and basically guarantee success. I'm not a huge fan of this type of test for that reason. Practice tests are here...- trainee4u
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- Forum: Applications Discussion
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Generative AI for applications
I use OpenAI's API playground (https://platform.openai.com/playground/chat) as I like the pay-as-you-go model. Currently pricing: 4o mini: $0.15/$0.60 (per million in/out tokens) 4o: $2.50/$10 4.5 $75/$150 The three 4 models do the same thing: generate text, however the 4o mini is the...- trainee4u
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- Forum: General Discussion
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Rejections thread!
Thought I'd track these: Rejected at first stage purely because of the application form (answers, experience, qualifications, who knows!?): Dechert Bates Wells Burges Salmon Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton (very fast: rolling!) Travers Smith Slaughter and May Dentons Eversheds Sutherland Weil...- trainee4u
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- Forum: My Training Contract Journey
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Most annoying recruitment practices
Here are some of mine: forms with mandatory fields that shouldn't be mandatory (I didn't do an SQE prep course, stop asking me) errors in underlying data feeds that the suppliers refuse to fix (e.g., missing schools) brittle in-house application systems which ask lots of questions but flake...- trainee4u
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- Forum: Applications Discussion
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HSF Blended Online Assessment
Not sure if anyone else has done this one, but I found it a bit strange. It had two parts, a set of spoken question (which could equally have been done as text) where you had a work scenario and had to choose one "best" and one "worst" answer. They had one sample question, where they told you...- trainee4u
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- Forum: Vacation Schemes Discussion
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Insight Day - how much preparation/legal knowledge?
I have an online insight day. They have sent us case studies. Apparently on the day we will be in break out rooms of 8 and will go through the case study with one of the firm's solicitors/trainees for about 20 minutes. Obviously if that was 20 minutes and a one-to-one discussion then you would...- trainee4u
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- Forum: General Discussion
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BPP or UoL Law Conversion Masters with or without SQE1
I have applied for the law conversion with masters at BPP and UoL for this September. (I might be overseas in the future, and I felt a 'masters' is more credible than a 'diploma', but maybe it doesn't matter really.) For BPP the fees for this (in London) are £15,800, whereas at UoL it is...- trainee4u
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