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<blockquote data-quote="Alice G" data-source="post: 26794" data-attributes="member: 1160"><p>Good question. I felt I had done the best I could on the day and was happy with my written exercise and the article interview, but I was conscious of my competency interview. I used to like competency interviews as I think I have a breadth of experiences but since being told I had been waffley following an AC, I became conscious of this and started to dread these interviews. I think I worried about this aspect of the day as I felt nervous within myself when I went in. However, I really liked my interviewers at Freshfields, they were lovely and smiley and light-hearted and so I had a bit of confidence in being myself, communicating in the way I usually would and when I was asked follow-up questions I just told the truth, not what I felt they wanted to hear or what was an 'impressive' answer. I guess I was worried that maybe I had been waffley again and possibly hadn't given the shiniest answers and that it might hinder me, but I actually think that they genuinely just wanted to hear what I had done and to get a sense for what I am about and I am honestly so glad I was just myself and spoke rather freely and candidly in the interview. I think hindsight is a great thing and I always take the view that I would rather be rejected for being authentically 'me' and accept that maybe I am not a firm's cup of tea than to go into an AC and be someone entirely different and get rejected for being something which I thought they had wanted.</p><p></p><p>I also, on the flipside, felt my A&O interview had gone relatively well on the whole and I got the rejection a couple of weeks later, so I do think sometimes it is best not to rely on how you felt anything went. Firms are looking for and assessing different things and it can be really hard as the candidate to know precisely what those things are and how you may have done overall. I think the best thing to do, hard as it is, is to try and forget about it and just trust you did your best regardless of the outcome.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alice G, post: 26794, member: 1160"] Good question. I felt I had done the best I could on the day and was happy with my written exercise and the article interview, but I was conscious of my competency interview. I used to like competency interviews as I think I have a breadth of experiences but since being told I had been waffley following an AC, I became conscious of this and started to dread these interviews. I think I worried about this aspect of the day as I felt nervous within myself when I went in. However, I really liked my interviewers at Freshfields, they were lovely and smiley and light-hearted and so I had a bit of confidence in being myself, communicating in the way I usually would and when I was asked follow-up questions I just told the truth, not what I felt they wanted to hear or what was an 'impressive' answer. I guess I was worried that maybe I had been waffley again and possibly hadn't given the shiniest answers and that it might hinder me, but I actually think that they genuinely just wanted to hear what I had done and to get a sense for what I am about and I am honestly so glad I was just myself and spoke rather freely and candidly in the interview. I think hindsight is a great thing and I always take the view that I would rather be rejected for being authentically 'me' and accept that maybe I am not a firm's cup of tea than to go into an AC and be someone entirely different and get rejected for being something which I thought they had wanted. I also, on the flipside, felt my A&O interview had gone relatively well on the whole and I got the rejection a couple of weeks later, so I do think sometimes it is best not to rely on how you felt anything went. Firms are looking for and assessing different things and it can be really hard as the candidate to know precisely what those things are and how you may have done overall. I think the best thing to do, hard as it is, is to try and forget about it and just trust you did your best regardless of the outcome. [/QUOTE]
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