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<blockquote data-quote="Jacob Miller" data-source="post: 48184" data-attributes="member: 5063"><p>Hmm, this is definitely a challenging question to answer- simply due to the number of directions in which you could take it! I personally answered this question across three key bases, highlighting individual skills each of which I felt were representative of a wider skill-base which was, in turn, important in some way to commercial law. To that end, I would recommend starting to plan your answer by identifying different broad areas and categories of skills that you feel are important to the career (you may wish to consider a combination of both 'soft' and 'hard' skills here) and then think of specific things within each of those groups that represent them well. Match those to examples you feel are relevant and then build your actual answers from there! One caveat I would put here is that you want to mainly focus on skills required to be a successful <strong>trainee</strong>: it wouldn't be relevant (in my opinion) to bring up sales experience, for example, and then link this to the idea of selling the law firm to potential clients, as this is something that a Partner would be doing. In any event, that is the sort of skill that you might show tacitly in any sort of Firm Pitch exercise at an AC or VS- they're increasingly common, too. </p><p></p><p>In terms of the specific examples you use, any example (within reason, obviously) could be used if you felt you could justify it (I tended to ask myself "could I defend this point if I were really cross-examined on it?" to decide this). Just make sure the examples are authentic- remember that they're constantly assessing you as a whole person, so having examples from a wide variety of situations and circumstances is great!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jacob Miller, post: 48184, member: 5063"] Hmm, this is definitely a challenging question to answer- simply due to the number of directions in which you could take it! I personally answered this question across three key bases, highlighting individual skills each of which I felt were representative of a wider skill-base which was, in turn, important in some way to commercial law. To that end, I would recommend starting to plan your answer by identifying different broad areas and categories of skills that you feel are important to the career (you may wish to consider a combination of both 'soft' and 'hard' skills here) and then think of specific things within each of those groups that represent them well. Match those to examples you feel are relevant and then build your actual answers from there! One caveat I would put here is that you want to mainly focus on skills required to be a successful [B]trainee[/B]: it wouldn't be relevant (in my opinion) to bring up sales experience, for example, and then link this to the idea of selling the law firm to potential clients, as this is something that a Partner would be doing. In any event, that is the sort of skill that you might show tacitly in any sort of Firm Pitch exercise at an AC or VS- they're increasingly common, too. In terms of the specific examples you use, any example (within reason, obviously) could be used if you felt you could justify it (I tended to ask myself "could I defend this point if I were really cross-examined on it?" to decide this). Just make sure the examples are authentic- remember that they're constantly assessing you as a whole person, so having examples from a wide variety of situations and circumstances is great! [/QUOTE]
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