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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrei Radu" data-source="post: 196891" data-attributes="member: 36777">1. Besides the classics (why you, why commercial law), some of the ones I encountered most often/heard about others encountering are:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Tell me about a time you demonstrated teamwork</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Tell me about a time you demonstrated resilience/worked under pressure/solved a problem</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">What are the key qualities a trainee at our firm needs?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">What is your biggest weakness? </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Tell me about a time you made a mistake</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Tell me about a time you worked with tight deadlines</li> </ul>2. The most important thing for me was just practice. I also had an issue dealing with nerves at first, but believe me, if you put yourself in VI conditions and just practice continuously for several hours, you will get a lot more accustomed to it. My advice would be to just take around 3-4 hours in which you do nothing but choose random questions, give yourself 1 minute to prepare and then record yourself for 1-2 minutes. You will see you will get better over time.Besides this, my top two tips would be to:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Speak more slowly - this gives you more time to think and articulate your ideas and makes it less likely to to find yourself having to continuously rephrase midsentence; I also find speaking in this way makes me feel more in control and calms my nerves; and </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Realize that your performance does not have to be perfect, but merely good enough. I think a lot of candidates end up overthinking and panicking when making the smallest mistake, which ends up derailing their entire speech. Being too perfectionistic in this way often works to your detriment. Thus, you should internalize the idea that it is fine if your response is not absolutely perfect - many candidates (myself included) have progressed by merely making sure we communicated decent substantive points in a reasonably clear and structured manner. You do not have to blow anyone away. If you start thinking in this way, it is more likely that when a small error inevitably occurs, you are able to overlook it and still have an overall good response.</li> </ol></blockquote>

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