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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrei Radu" data-source="post: 208709" data-attributes="member: 36777">My advice regarding an ideal applications strategy is to always aim to submit as many high-quality applications as possible. For your case, the first point I will say is that I think you could be making more applications. I know people who have managed to make around 40-50 quality applications by this point in the cycle. While of course this is a bit more on the extreme end of the spectrum, and while the number you will aim at will also depend on your practice area/sector interest and personal time constraints, I do think it is feasible for a highly-motivated applicant to make around 25-30 high quality applications. On a purely statistical basis, that should almost have doubled your chances of securing a TC. Of course, this is not just a numbers game, but it partly a number's game. At the applications stage, I got some of the applications I had put most time and effort in immediately rejected, but got progressed after submitting cover letters I had finished in a single day. Like it or not, the assessment process is not entirely objective, and thus a luck factor comes into play: does a recruiter emphasize criteria you score great in, or criteria you score less well in? This is even more so the case in ACs, which is a game of even smaller margins. As such, I think you want to have as many horses in the race as possible.At the same time, of course this is not the entire story and that you should also aim to improve quality-wise. I would advise you to take the following steps:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Compare your successful and unsuccessful applications and then try to identify any common themes; this should help you to ascertain what are the features of the successful applications that you should seek to integrate in your writing form now on. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Compare your applications to model applications from the most successful past applicants you know. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">If possible, get highly-experienced people to review in depth at least one of your applications. Action their comments and then keep their input in mind for future writing. </li> </ol>I have actually written a way more in depth quite on applications strategy, take a look <a href="https://www.thecorporatelawacademy.com/forum/threads/a-guide-to-building-a-winning-application-strategy.9080/" target="_blank">here</a>. For improving commercial awareness, my main pieces of advice would be to:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Listen to podcasts as much as you can in otherwise 'dead moments' (commuting, doing laundry etc) - I particularly recommend the FT News Briefing, Bloomberg News, The Lawyer, Watson's Daily, Law, disrupted. </li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Attend as many firms events as you can - in particular, I think you can find great use in online sign-up based events as they are very low-commitment. It may be worthwhile to sign up to the relevant newsletters so you are sure not missing anything you could easily attend. </li> </ol></blockquote>

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