Jessica Booker
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Perseverance and resilience although similar and often connected to me are different qualities. Resilience is often about being unfazed by challenging matters, while perseverance is more of a dogged determination that ensure success. One is more about how you feel and the other is more about what you do.One of Sidley's questions is 'In your view which personal qualities make a successful lawyer?'
I've written up my own list, but revisiting their website just now they have a quite neat little 'what we look for' list of personal attributes.
While I'm pleased to find that there's significant conceptual overlap between their list and mine, I'm now wondering if I should shift gears/rewrite to focus more on what they obviously think are key qualities.
Are firms generally looking for their own material to be reflected back at them on these sorts of questions, or do they prefer something a little different? And if using their listed qualities, is it better to use the specific language they use or does it not matter? (ex. they list 'perserverance,' I had already written on 'resilience')
I would personally use your own strengths and your own language but try to find alignments or similarities where you can. The firm knows it’s own marketing/values/attributes and there is just a risk that anyone can repeat that, and therefore you haven’t got the opportunity to stand out from the crowd nor show you as a unique applicant.
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