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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jaysen" data-source="post: 5168" data-attributes="member: 1">Skadden VC experience (2018 Summer VC recruitment season).Thanks to [USER=203]@Leke[/USER] for sharing this with us.***From my experience, Skadden was very personable at the interview. Most questions were about my CV. To be honest, my interview was probably not the norm because I had a lot of experience working I human rights. The key thing is to expect questions from the information you give.Nonetheless, there were three main questions that I believe could be applied to anyone else. These were:1. Why Skadden?2. Why London?3. What two skills do you think will make you succeed as a trainee solicitor?The remaining questions were just about my experience in Human rights (I had worked in Leigh Day) and how I was going to balance my personal convictions with working for a hypothetical extractive company.To be honest, Skadden asked me the typical questions during my interview. So, for most of it just prepare as I am sure you are doing, and I am certain you will do well (Search Wikijobs for more questions by Skadden). Again, I will say that if you have anything that you feel stands out from your background or application form, expect questions.I had no questions about my commercial awareness or the deals Skadden was working on. Another reason I think Skadden was weird (or maybe it is because I did not mention a deal in my app). I enjoyed my interview because they were very personable. Just remember that it is still a professional environment because I felt I loosened up closer to the end of my interview and group work. And yeah, by the way, you are going to get asked to ask them questions in your interview.Note though: I was speaking to a person at Skadden once and he told me that if he was my interviewer, he would ask me about a case I read recently and why I agreed with it. Luckily, he did not end up interviewing me.Again, as with any other firm, be aware that different interviewers at Skadden have different styles.On the group work: I used this to prepare: <a href="https://applyshinewin.com/2018/01/08/how-to-do-well-in-a-group-exercise-its-probably-not-how-you-think/" target="_blank">https://applyshinewin.com/2018/01/08/how-to-do-well-in-a-group-exercise-its-probably-not-how-you-think/</a>As per Skadden's group activity, it was not typical. It is not the typical M&A group activity. I knew this from reading target jobs and wiki jobs. However, things may change. I got told this by the grad recruiter at an insight day.My own group activity:You were expected to be able to argue and present yourself well. In my own AC, we had an activity that involved me convincing the team on why I felt environmentalists (I think they were playing on my background) were important to society. Other individuals had different characters and after presenting ourselves to each other we then had to rank individuals based on how important they were.The end:I did not end up with a VC at Skadden because I messed up my group activity (I am sure even though I actually never got feedback lols). 85+% of the people at the VC were from top London Unis, Durham, Oxford and Cambridge. So, I felt very inferior and hardly spoke at the group discussion (I did not even vote one time like that). Unfortunately, acting inferior is not what recruiters look for in group work. So, if you get to the AC stage, keeping a confident mind is the next psychological battle. Don't fail yours like I failed mine. I made it too easy for my competitors.</blockquote>

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