Does anyone else leave an interview feeling like it went well and then look back and think it went terribly? 😅
This has been me for the past week!Does anyone else leave an interview feeling like it went well and then look back and think it went terribly? 😅
Not yet. I assume they'll wait until after the response deadline to allocate times.have u been given an exact date yet?
Very relaxed and standard motivational and competency and situational questions, so good prep bullet point examples of when you have used certain skills or encountered certain scenarios (eg working with a difficult person, under time pressure, etc). Nothing commercial from what I remember.Anyone have advice for phone interview with Morgan Lewis?
hey congrats is this for summer? and is this the round straight after the initial app?Anyone have advice for phone interview with Morgan Lewis?
Hi, yes and yeshey congrats is this for summer? and is this the round straight after the initial app?
Which location did you apply to? I applied to CRS LondonI'm feeling nervous with people asking for CRS VI tips, but they didn't apply to the same location as me (the ones I saw all said Guildford office), so I suppose no news is... well... not GOOD news, exactly, but at this point in time, probably not BAD news either.
CRS is my top firm (joint with Michelmores) so I'll definitely post the moment I hear anything (PFO or otherwise!). Good luck to you![]()
PFO today were mostly from direct TCsorry for everyone that got a Freshfields PFOWere they for the direct TC or the SVS?
Hi @corporatelore and huge congrats on your interview, it is a big achievement! I will link bellow some useful posts and resources for interview preparation, I hope they helpI have a 30 min virtual interview with Cooley next week. This is my first interview with a corporate law firm so any advice would be appreciated!
My top tip would be to focus on doing well and not on being perfect. Many people go to ACs thinking they need to blow away the partners and the recruiters to succeed, but I think this is the wrong attitude to have. First of all, while your achievements and skills might be impressive for this stage, it is quite unlikely you will manage to overly impress anyone no matter how hard you try - you will know a lot less about any given commercial law subject than lawyer in the firm. Secondly, this attitude will make you feel even more stressed than you would normally be and will therefore likely impact your performance. If you will be assessed for a total time of a few hours, it is impossible to be perfect in every moment. When you notice an imperfection in an answer, the right reaction is to acknowledge it but then to move past it and make the best of the rest. Instead, the overly perfectionistic candidates tend to stress about it a lot more than they should, and in attempting to fix the initial mistake they do a lot more harm to their progression chances. People with this mindset thus often end up creating negative feedback loops for themselves: they make a small error, then they begin overthinking it, which decreases their self-confidence, which impacts their next answer, which in turn further intensifies their anxiety; a series of events which can end up completely derailing one's performance.
To avoid this, instead of aiming to excel everywhere, I would simply aim to perform well - to do a good job on every task and score well on every relevant assessment criterion. This boils down to using your preparation to make decent substantive points and communicate them in a clear and confident manner. If you manage to do this you will have performed better than the majority of candidates and in most cases should be enough to get you progressed - it did for me 4/4 times. If you reframe your task in this way, I think you should feel a lot less anxious about it: while perhaps it is difficult to convince yourself that you will pull of an extraordinary performance, you should feel a lot more confident in being able to respond sensibly to tasks and to cover all your bases well.
A final piece of advice I have for calming down on the day and to avoid blanking out is to take your time:
Finally, know that just by getting to the AC you have proven yourself to be one of the very best candidates out of a huge pool, which means you have all it takes to succeed! Best of luck
- Firstly, taking your time before starting your answer. Instead of just jumping into a response the instance the interviewer stops speaking (which is a very natural temptation) take 3-4 seconds to think about and structure your answer. This will significantly decrease the number of times you find yourself blanking out mid-answer or having difficulty finding the right way to end a sentence.
- Secondly, if you have difficulty with finding sensible points for a question, it is perfectly acceptable to request some thinking time - just say 'May I please take a minute to consider my answer?'. In the unlikely case you do not find anything after that, explain that you are unsure what to say; but also walk the interviewer through your thought process of your best guess.
- Thirdly, aim to speak more slowly. When you are anxious, your hear rate goes up and you naturally start speaking at a higher pace, which is problematic in that this simply means taking less time to think as you answer. This naturally reduces how articulate and confident you seem, especially since speaking quickly more often leads you to losing your chain of thought or expressing yourself in unclear language. As such, try to slow down. Also, use strategic 2-3 second pauses in your speech to add emphasis to points and to get valuable thinking time as you are moving between the different parts of your answer.
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