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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lulu95049" data-source="post: 228869" data-attributes="member: 26215">Hi Blipken,Your answer is good but there are a few changes you could make to tighten it up and improve your application as a whole.Paragraphs 1+2 Overall your structure is good - you've identified the characteristic of the law firm that appeals to you (eg. the firm's challenger mindset), and you've linked this to your own experience. You should combine the first two paragraphs into one, and focus on making it less wordy and more punchy. This is definitely an art, and something that you may want to use AI to help with.  Instead of giving two examples to link the firm's challenger mindset to your own experience (ie. you adapting to a new education system at 14, and you taking on trainee-level legal work experience), maybe just stick to one example, and flesh it out a bit more.Paragraph 3Again your structure here is good. You say that you took finance, PE and M&A modules at university, and because of that, you realised you would enjoy transactional work - but why? What specifically did you enjoy about those modules? You need to go one step further in your self-reflection here. In the same paragraph, you then go on to talk about Skadden's approach to innovation. This seems a bit random, and should ideally be a whole other paragraph in itself. I know that word limits can be restrictive in applications, so it may be better to stick to two firm 'characteristics' and link both to your personal experience, but do so in detail.NB. for the '£1trn in deal value in 2015' point, is this definitely in GBP, and not USD? (remembering Skadden is a US firm). Taking the exchange rate into account, this is obviously a big difference and is exactly the kind of point that the graduate recruitment team will pick up on.</blockquote>

Verification: Our company is called, "The Corporate ___ Academy". What is the missing word here?

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