Can back this up as someone who's also done the test. I gave up on the final task after 40 minutes or so and still managed to get through on the next round.
There are a few sections that are memory-based too (I remember there was one where you had to memorise and repeat the sequence in which...
Hi everyone, thanks so much for creating this thread!
Thank you for sharing your journey, I can definitely relate to it. L&W, Baker McKenzie and NRF are three firms I'm really interested in, congrats on securing TCs for all three! What would you say made you choose to work at Baker McKenzie...
Hi everyone,
Here's a list of firms I've found which accept vacation scheme applications from penultimate year non-law students:
Allen & Overy
Baker McKenzie
Freshfields
Herbert Smith Freehills
Slaughter and May
Does anyone know any other firms which do the same? I'm particularly wondering...
Hi @Jessica Booker , I've heard from some people that you should write down the amount of money you secured as sponsorship for a society and from others that you shouldn't. For a figure of e.g. £2000 secured across four sponsorships, would you recommend I write both figures down or just the...
In my experience the WG is more of a test to automatically clear out some people, though if HL's benchmark percentile is 18% they'll probably put some weight on it. Can't imagine it taking precedent over applications though
@ everyone who was rejected for the HSF disputes open day - I was rejected last year and was gutted because I really like the firm, but when making this year's application and looking back at what I wrote last year, I found so many areas where I could improve on. (This time last year, I thought...
Hi all,
For the Akin Gump VS app, there's a section which asks us to rate our computer skills (ranging from 'None' to 'Very good') and then to give details. I'm not sure what exactly they're looking for in this section. I don't have any coding or programming experience, but I know how to use...
Thank you for clarifying - the app just asked one question on 'How would attending this Open Day benefit you'. I was mainly wondering whether it would be a similar structure for the vac scheme application and @Manifesting had a great response.
Thanks for your input Jessica, how would you recommend writing about important committee experience if there isn't a section for it in the application? Or is society experience not necessary for open days?
Same here, although I remember in another forum someone said they were progressed on to the next stage via email even though they saw a rejection in the application portal first? Not sure if that was a glitch but because of that I'm keeping optimistic until they email me haha
Hi everyone,
I was about to submit my HSF Open Day application when I noticed that there wasn't a section where we could fill in our activities. Does the firm want us to put our extracurricular experience (e.g. being a committee member at a university society) in the work experience section...
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