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Preferred practice area - first or last seat?
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<blockquote data-quote="Jessica Booker" data-source="post: 93313" data-attributes="member: 2672"><p>In addition to George’s points, the things to consider are:</p><p></p><p>1) do you have to submit your preferences all up front and these can’t change (unlikely but I know of one firm that did this) vs can you change your mind with each rotation</p><p></p><p>2) how many seats you have</p><p></p><p>3) do you just submit department names, or do you have to rank them</p><p></p><p>4) if there are any compulsory seats you have to complete. Getting compulsory seats out the way early that you are less interested in, is probably the way to go.</p><p></p><p>5) what your TC might look like as a whole (rather than just individual seats).</p><p></p><p>I have lost count how many trainees did their first seat thinking it would be their least favourite, only to end up changing their direction completely, doing different seats than they expected and qualifying into their first seat’s team. So my advice is always about keeping an open mind unless you have subtantial experience across multiple departments before, and try not to over engineer this. There are so many variables, you are not going to be able to control it all and only partly influence it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jessica Booker, post: 93313, member: 2672"] In addition to George’s points, the things to consider are: 1) do you have to submit your preferences all up front and these can’t change (unlikely but I know of one firm that did this) vs can you change your mind with each rotation 2) how many seats you have 3) do you just submit department names, or do you have to rank them 4) if there are any compulsory seats you have to complete. Getting compulsory seats out the way early that you are less interested in, is probably the way to go. 5) what your TC might look like as a whole (rather than just individual seats). I have lost count how many trainees did their first seat thinking it would be their least favourite, only to end up changing their direction completely, doing different seats than they expected and qualifying into their first seat’s team. So my advice is always about keeping an open mind unless you have subtantial experience across multiple departments before, and try not to over engineer this. There are so many variables, you are not going to be able to control it all and only partly influence it. [/QUOTE]
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