Jones Day Vac Scheme

[JJP]

Hi all,

I'm wondering if anyone can offer any insight for the best way to approach the Jones Day vac scheme application.

The only free text section asks you to complete a covering letter with maximum 300 words. Normally, I'd follow a standard formula of:

• Why law?
• Why me?
• Why this firm?

In this case, it is possible to do it justice with just 100 words on each? Is there one that should take more priority over the other?

Thanks for your help!

 

[Jaysen]

Hi all,

I'm wondering if anyone can offer any insight for the best way to approach the Jones Day vac scheme application.

The only free text section asks you to complete a covering letter with maximum 300 words. Normally, I'd follow a standard formula of:

• Why law?
• Why me?
• Why this firm?

In this case, it is possible to do it justice with just 100 words on each? Is there one that should take more priority over the other?

Thanks for your help!

There's a fair amount of flexibility here and if you wanted to leave it to 100 words each, I don't see a problem with that.

If it was me, I'd lean towards using most of the word count for 'why Jones Day?' and 'why me?'. I think your motivations for 'why commercial law?' can be summarised in fewer words.

 

[Alice G]

Hi all,

I'm wondering if anyone can offer any insight for the best way to approach the Jones Day vac scheme application.

The only free text section asks you to complete a covering letter with maximum 300 words. Normally, I'd follow a standard formula of:

• Why law?
• Why me?
• Why this firm?

In this case, it is possible to do it justice with just 100 words on each? Is there one that should take more priority over the other?

Thanks for your help!

to echo what Jaysen has said, I would say it is most important to have a 'why Jones Day?' response in there but there is probably flexibility with the rest!