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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pfoapplicant" data-source="post: 221692" data-attributes="member: 8993">Hi guys,On the Pinsent Masons application portal, there doesn't appear to be separate sections for employment and extra-curricular activities; instead, there's a catch-all section titled Relevant Experience, with the following message on the top of the screen:"Please use this section to include up to 5 of your most relevant experiences only. This can be anything you’ve done, such as employment, work experience, placement(s), volunteering, sports activities, positions of responsibility etc."I've got a couple of queries:1. I'm currently undecided as to what experiences I should put down. So far, I'm thinking of putting down (1) my current work volunteering for a local charity; (2) a previous vacation scheme; (3) my time at my university's student legal journal, and (4) some work I did carrying out research for the authors of an academic article on health law.For my fifth "relevant experience", I'm thinking of including my role as president of my university college's law society - it seems more impressive than, say, writing about my time playing for my university college's tennis team. What worries me, however, is the thought that if I were to write down my time at the college law society as my fifth relevant experience, then this would risk making my application sound quite one-dimensional (because 4 out of the 5 relevant experiences would be law-related, and none of the relevant experiences would be to do with hobbies, sports, etc). Does anyone think there is a risk that this could be the case?2. Ordinarily, on work experience sections, I keep my entries to a maximum of 150 words per experience. Does that sound like an appropriate amount for the "Relevant Experience" section of the current application, or would it be advisable to write in slightly more detail (say, 250 or 300 words), given that there appears to be no stand-alone sections for either Work Experience or Extra-Curricular Activities (or any other questions along the lines of "tell us about a time when you did XYZ, etc")?I would be immensely grateful for any feedback, no matter how big or small! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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