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    How will you make it a success?

    In terms of how you will make it a success - desire to innovate, desire to learn from competition and integrate new ways of working, personal work ethic, ability to and willingness to communicate with others, empathy for clients and co-workers etc - could be quite general here surely?
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    Advice

    Likewise, career changer here and feeling very old seeing how young some people are on the forum!
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    Commercial Awareness tips ahead of an assessment centre

    As well as reading the FT, trying to work through some of the core concepts on investopedia, investing to some degree yourself, learning how startups and funding works, or even getting into crypto (don't flame me for the latter) can all be quite potent drivers to learn more about commerce and...
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    Sillicon Valley Bank collapse

    I found this an interesting read: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/03/svb-collapse-fed-regulation-financial-system-safety/673401/
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    Could someone please explain what's meant by the terms B2B and B2C law firms?

    B2B is business to business, B2C is business to consumer - equally there are B2B2C companies out there, e.g. Amazon, which acts as a marketplace linking businesses and consumers
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    What skills would you bring to the role of a trainee solicitor?

    Definitely do 3 I think - admittedly I'm a career-changer but from my own past (Medicine), I'd have tried to fit 3 attributes into a question like this when being interviewed and wouldn't see any reason to change that approach for TCs
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    Any other career changers?

    Also interested in joining if this is still active!
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    Psychometric test

    Will depend from test to test (have a background in tutoring students for a range of university entrance tests, many of which are comparable)
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    Should parents have the right to take children out of school during term time?

    I think you've covered it really well! It's a bit of a debate around libertarianism at its core, I suppose
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    Is Ashurst's Cognify test a joke?

    I'd assume - based on how SJTs and psychometric tests etc work from year to year - that it's a Z-score using that year's applicants

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