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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TCLA Community Assistant" data-source="post: 37402" data-attributes="member: 2672">I suspect that with your paralegal work you know you have a fixed amount of time and resources to complete the task and therefore just get on with it as you know it has to be delivered within those frameworks. Often applications can be a pain because you can dedicate much more time and have nearly an unlimited amount of resources to complete them - you then just got lost in a sea of too much information and too much time. Maybe setting yourself more stringent deadlines to draft answers to questions may help and work more like how you are used to with your paralegal responsibilities?The comparing yourself to others is common - but dangerous. You tend to only hear people's success stories, whether its through your uni cohort or through things like LinkedIn. This means the perception you have of other people's success is skewed. Although things are changing, and particularly with this forum I really believe people's transparency about the good and bad of applying is starting to become more apparent. Try to focus on your achievements - you don't have to be like other people, you just have to present the best version of yourself and your achievements. They are clearly there for some people to see, as you wouldn't have had the success you have had so far with your applications and also with your paralegal role. Belief in yourself is an important characteristic for any lawyer/solicitor, so if this is something you feel you need to develop, ensure you spend some time/effort into this too - otherwise there is a risk that if you don't believe in yourself, neither will the people who are interviewing you/assessing you.This is probably going to be particularly unhelpful but my advice with opening sentences is maybe not to write them first! If that is the thing that is holding you back, write your other paragraphs or bits that you feel more comfortable with first. The opening sentence can often be the least important part of the application - its just literally introducing you to the evidence you are about to show that actually demonstrates your motivation for commercial law or the law firm in question. You may find that doing it in this backwards way that you may inadvertently write your opening sentence or you may not need one at all!</blockquote>

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