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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrei Radu" data-source="post: 225796" data-attributes="member: 36777">Hi [USER=8993]@pfoapplicant[/USER] just to add to the great response from [USER=43172]@wooliewoo[/USER] I wanted say that based on the firm's prompt, you can definitely include a wide range of experiences that go beyond contract-based roles that would formally be classified as "work experiences". That said, as I see it, if you have attended many commercial law-related events, you should not make a separate entry for each of them and provide a detailed description. Instead, I would advise you to have one big "Careers events" entry, where you list the events you attended and also explain how these events/any particularly impactful event shaped your motivations. If you have completed multiple virtual experiences or short volunteering activities (or, really, any less substantial experiences that can be easily grouped together based on a set of common features), I would advise the same thing (although, of course, you can also draw connections to skills/abilities they've helped you develop).As for your more general worry on including too many or two few of your experiences: I think you want to find a right balance and not overwhelm recruiters with dozens of long entries, but, at the same time, you want to add as much value to your application as possible by including many experiences that formed relevant skills. Sometimes, it is true that "less is more" in that if you have way too many long entries, your most impressive and substantive experiences may make less of an impact on a recruiter than they could have had if they had not been drowned in a sea of other information. As such, I would advise you not to feel like you have to include everything and anything that could possibly go in. That said, generally, people err more often by being under-inclusive rather than over-inclusive, and recruiters constantly try to emphasise that a very wide range of experiences can be included in the work experience section. As such, I would say that as long as you do not have more than 7-8 entries, you should not worry about this issue; while if you have 8+ lengthier ones, you should start considering the overall value add of each new entry vs the cost of adding more information for a recruiter to get through.</blockquote>

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