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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrei Radu" data-source="post: 221701" data-attributes="member: 36777">Hi [USER=8993]@pfoapplicant[/USER] for the first question, I think it is fine (and, likely, also advisable) to include you role as president as the fifth entry. The firm asks you to include only the "most relevant" roles - an expression I interpret as referring to those that are most indicative of how well you "fit" the firm. Thus, in determining what to include, I would focus on (i) roles that represent your most significant achievements and demonstrate your skills and abilities; and (ii) roles that are most closely connected to your motivations to work as a commercial solicitor at the firm. Your role as president of a law society scores highly in both categories, so I would argue it should definitely be included; at the very least, it appears to me it definitely scores higher on both criteria when compared to things like playing in the university's tennis team.As for your worry as appearing too "law-focused", I would advise you not to be too concerned - after all, you are applying to join a law firm, where almost everything you do will have to do with law! If the firm wanted to see more of your personality and ascertain how "well-rounded" you are as a person at the application form stage, they could have easily done so by including questions targeting this. You should not read a hidden intention on their part to do this covertly; one of the things I hear recruiters most often complaining about is that many candidates read things into their questions and prompts that they were simply not asking. For you second question: I think it would make sense to use a roughly 150-words limit as a starting point when writing the entries. If you find that you have lots of valuable content left to cover for a role and are not able to do so within this limit (even if writing in a very concise manner), I think you could write up to around 250-300 words per entry.</blockquote>

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