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How to approach question - 'Share an experience where you demonstrated commercial awareness?'
Thanks! I was thinking down the same track, but so far my work experience did not really allow me to make decisions that had something to do with macro thinking.... and this question was a question to vac scheme instead of TC- Nky_lawstudent
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How to approach question - 'Share an experience where you demonstrated commercial awareness?'
Hello, I am filing out an online application form, and I saw this question 'share an experience where you demonstrated excellence in commercial awareness' ? What does this question expect ? Can someone share an example of how would they answer this question? Thanks!- Nky_lawstudent
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Open day Interactions.
Sharing my open day and networking lunch experiences after attending a handful (mostly magic circle and US biglaw) *however this is not in their london office, instead in another int. city The rule - its not your fault that you don't find the person you are talking to informative The trouble...- Nky_lawstudent
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Looking for past cover letters or online forms
Hello everyone, I have been reading different threads here about tailoring your applications to answer questions such as 'why a career as a commercial lawyer' or 'why this firm', and I have seen more than a handful of different approaches to the questions and how not to answer them. However I...- Nky_lawstudent
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Commercial Awareness
Bloomberg Opinion, NY Times Deal Book newsletter about the subscription at FT, check with your uni, I recall my uni actually provide free ones to students. If you really want to read Lex and DD, u can keep the newsletter function even if you discontinue your sub later.- Nky_lawstudent
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Commercial Awareness
Subscribe to FT Due Diligence News Letter (thou its premium subscription)! I find just reading FT quite hard (technical financial knowledge), but DD newsletter help breaks things up!- Nky_lawstudent
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