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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jaysen" data-source="post: 1021" data-attributes="member: 1">When was your Hogan Lovells interview? March 2016What was it for? Vacation SchemePlease describe the interview process at Hogan Lovells.Once we arrived, we were taken to a room and had the day explained to us. We did some ice-breakers, sharing an interesting fact about ourselves, saying where we studied or what we are currently doing, etc. Then we re-took the Watson Glaser test, presumably just to verify that we hadn't cheated when we did it as part of the application.Then there were two interviews. The first was with an associate and a member of HR. This was a situational judgement interview, where they read out a card - and you could read it as well - explaining scenario and then asked you how you would respond.The final interview started with a case study, a short piece on a commercial issue that we then had to discuss with two partners. After we discussed that, they asked the usual questions on motivation for a career in law, why Hogan Lovells etc., and then some competency questions.What advice would you give to future applicants for the Hogan Lovells interview?For the Watson Glaser test, if you're fine with the test the first time round, then you should be fine on the day. In any case, if you're there for interview then you did well enough on the test the first time round, so it's just a case of doing it again and you'll probably be completely fine.The situational judgement interview is something you cannot really prepare for well. They discussed whether my answer really was the best thing to do, even if I got it exactly right the first time, and often told me what was the ideal response if I hadn't quite said that myself. There were some more questions to see if I understood the roles of trainees, the benefits of secondments to other offices and clients, how much they would charge for a trainee's time. So just make sure you're familiar with what you would be doing as a trainee, your roles, the departments, and understanding about commercial law.Try to build up commercial awareness generally to approach the case study. It would be helpful to think about how it would affect Hogan Lovells specifically, thinking about the different departments, emerging markets, maybe how key clients will be affected, what potential new areas there will be for development etc. Be confident in your motivation answers, and really think about it. Try to be unique and personal in why you want to go to the firm, as otherwise you are just repeating the generic answers they hear every interview.</blockquote>

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