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Hi all,

I was inspired by [USER=20454]@j.s.cox[/USER] recent success and decided to start a similar thread to track and reflect on my progress, hold myself accountable, and hopefully connect with some likeminded people.

I am an international non-law student in my third year and I realised I wanted to pursue a career in law in August 2022. This is my progress so far:

• Applied to and been rejected from Travers, Ashurst, Simmons & Simmons WVS, and CC direct TC
• Applied to and successfully attended Open Days at Baker McKenzie, Taylor Wessing, and DLA Piper
• Attended Freshfields' Non-Law Workshop after a successful application
• Attended Slaughter and May's Winter Workshop and as a result have a direct TC interview scheduled in March with the firm
• Awaiting the outcome of these applications: Freshfields' direct TC, Baker McKenzie's SVS, and Taylor Wessing SVS (post arctic shores)

I have been trying to improve my commercial awareness by listening to daily FT news briefings, reading commercial newsletters such as ziplaw and littlelaw, and reading the book 'All you need to know about the city' by Christopher Stoakes. Until now I have just been sporadically looking at and reading articles on a surface level, struggling to connect the dots on how it relates to a law firm. However, I have realised if i'm going to feel prepared at my interview in two months, I have to start actively setting goals for myself.

I want to focus on:

• Reflecting more on the role of law firms and the effect on law firm clients when reading news
• Finding a couple interesting stories to focus on and follow rather than trying to gain an insight into everything at once
• Setting weekly and daily specific goals (for example, complete chapter 4 in the book i'm reading or spend 2 hours in the library preparing for motivational interview questions)
• Seek out help and as much experience I can get - talk to my career service and see if they can do a mock interview with me or use TCLA's service

Thanks for reading and good luck to everyone