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<blockquote data-quote="Harvey Specter" data-source="post: 225035" data-attributes="member: 35674"><p style="text-align: justify">For those applying to Skadden, how do we write a detailed answer for the second question ‘if you could choose a career other than the law, what would you choose?’ Is the expectation to explain why that career, our skills or competencies, how they align back to law and/or Skadden, etc? Just seems very confusing hence I left it till the end. I am able to think of a few other careers, but should they be similar to commercial law or something different? Surely I can just say I would choose X career and call it a day but it is asking for 250 words lmao. Any help would be appreciated! Also if [USER=36777]@Andrei Radu[/USER] or [USER=42112]@Abbie Whitlock[/USER] could help that would be great!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Harvey Specter, post: 225035, member: 35674"] [JUSTIFY]For those applying to Skadden, how do we write a detailed answer for the second question ‘if you could choose a career other than the law, what would you choose?’ Is the expectation to explain why that career, our skills or competencies, how they align back to law and/or Skadden, etc? Just seems very confusing hence I left it till the end. I am able to think of a few other careers, but should they be similar to commercial law or something different? Surely I can just say I would choose X career and call it a day but it is asking for 250 words lmao. Any help would be appreciated! Also if [USER=36777]@Andrei Radu[/USER] or [USER=42112]@Abbie Whitlock[/USER] could help that would be great![/JUSTIFY] [/QUOTE]
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