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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AvniD" data-source="post: 128817" data-attributes="member: 17155">I empathise with you. It seems like you're caught between who you think firms perceive as the ideal candidate and who you are. You are clearly immensely self-aware and have some pretty impressive achievements under your belt - your work experience and LLM being only some of them. This may be surprising to hear but a lot of people have pandemic-related gaps in their career, which is understandable given how disruptive it was for so many of us. You can honestly say that you were volunteering and looking for roles at the same time during your gap year (which you ended up finding as well). If there are other reasons for this gap, maybe you wanted to spend time with family, maybe you wanted to take a break after an intense LLM etc., then please consider stating these as well. My best advice to you is to extract the value from your work experience (the skills and personality traits you developed + demonstrated, the projects you worked on etc.) and present them clearly in your applications because if you don't highlight these aspects, then law firms won't be able to appreciate them. I would also encourage you to reflect on the job you were fired from and understand why it wasn't right for you and what reasons could have led to this outcome- maybe the firm was trimming their headcount? Maybe it wasn't the right for for you in the end? This may come up in interviews and it would be good to have a clear answer. You have not failed and you are ANYTHING but a loser - you simply need a little perspective on how to own and present your experiences and I hope that the replies to your post have helped you in finding this.</blockquote>

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