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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Novaa" data-source="post: 237624" data-attributes="member: 26320">What skills would you want to pick up between the AC and vac scheme? (This likely won’t be one they ask about the two.) - Practice explaining things coherently in a professional context (dependent on where you are in your career journey - If they ask how practice with friends/family.)- Shifting your perspective from an applicant to a prospective trainee (ensuring you’re actually preparing to apply the skills which make a great trainee, which you may have spoken about in an application.)- Streamlining your firm research, so once the onboarding option begins and you know what your seat options could be. You can research to see what trainees you could be paired with, and seeing what work they do.- Commercial awareness: Just throw in there you will keep on top of understanding the opportunities the firm has and sectors they’re operating in (be prepared for a follow-up if you’re not too confident with a topic, maybe skip this one.)What skills you’d want to pick up between the AC and training - Essentially just frame how you’ll use the vac scheme as a foundation to apply those trainee skills you know.- Applying legal research skills in a practical setting (research tasks, advice notes, group presentations.)- Being able to manage work instructions and others’ expectations for your work (Time management.)- Exposure to how feedback works so you can have an understanding of what to expect, and not take it as a negative (#Reflection #Resilient)- Exposure to how you can further build your legal network, if this is your first VS. There will be a lot of networking opportunities.- Collaboration *in a legal setting* TBH it probably won’t be different to collaborating in another environment. But just frame it as you’ll be getting exposure to how that actually looks like in a law firm.</blockquote>

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