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    Ask A Graduate Recruiter Anything!

    Ah, sorry! I’ll give some clarification. My current answer discusses: conducting market research to ensure there is demand, types of funding available and advice on investment agreements, legal structures available, discussion of whether the business is online or brick-and-mortar and the legal...
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    Ask A Graduate Recruiter Anything!

    Thank you! It's only 250 words so, with choosing the legal structure, I was going to say something along the lines of 'I would advise my friend of the available UK business structures and their liability and tax implications' rather than go into detail about them all. Would you say that is...
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    Ask A Graduate Recruiter Anything!

    Hi Jessica! An application question I have come across asks 'what advice would you give to a friend who wants to set up a business?'. Do you think they are looking for an answer that focuses on things like registering a business/legal structure of the business or do they want one that goes...
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    Ask A Graduate Recruiter Anything!

    Hi @Jessica Booker. When answering a competency question on an application, can I use a vacation scheme at a different firm as my example? Thank you.
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    Ask A Graduate Recruiter Anything!

    Hi Jessica! I am seriously considering self-funding my LPC in 2021. From the point of view of a recruiter, if you see a candidate already has their LPC, does that make them more attractive to the firm? Also, if you were deciding between two candidates and liked each of them, if one had the LPC...
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    Ask A Graduate Recruiter Anything!

    Hi Jessica. I got to the final stage for a TC but didn't get it. When applying to the same firm the next cycle, can I more or less keep my application the same or should I write new answers to all questions? Thank you!
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    General Discussion Thread 2020-21

    Does anyone have any tips/experience with the Withers virtual AC? I’d be massively grateful for any guidance!
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    Hearing Back from Law Firms, Assessment Centres & Interview Tips - 2019 - 2020

    Has anyone else not heard from BCLP for the vac scheme? I applied in October and have emailed but nada!!
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    Hearing Back from Law Firms, Assessment Centres & Interview Tips - 2019 - 2020

    Am I correct in thinking the BM video interview has a structure of 45 second countdown to think/prepare and then 90 seconds to record?
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    Hearing Back from Law Firms, Assessment Centres & Interview Tips - 2019 - 2020

    Sorry to do a panicky message but just been reading how lots of people have been progressed to VI / AC with Bakers and hearing from other firms and I haven’t heard anything at all really from anyone! Does this mean that I probably haven’t got anything?
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    Hearing Back from Law Firms, Assessment Centres & Interview Tips - 2019 - 2020

    Hi! I would still apply - I just sent them an email asking when I’d hear back regarding my vac scheme application and grad rec replied saying that they’re still considering applications due to the deadline being on the 19th and that I’d hear back at the end of the month and Feb latest. So...
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    Hearing Back from Law Firms, Assessment Centres & Interview Tips - 2019 - 2020

    Hi! When you completed the Baker McKenzie Watson Glaser, did you get an email confirming you had completed it? I haven’t received anything and am worried that something has gone wrong!
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    Bird & Bird Video Interview

    Hi! I’m in the same position as you re having a Bird & Bird VI. I know that they use the platform Shortlist.Me and on that website you can do a practice test. On the practice test they were purely competency-based questions, but from what I gather to be a huge bank of them, so very difficult...

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