When was your Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholar interview?
April 2018
What was it for?
Vacation scheme
Please describe the interview process at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholar.
First you are taken to a room to read a problem scenario on the EU regulation of [redacted] in electrical products. You play the role of a trainee and have to advise the client (the [redacted] manufacturer) on You are tasked with finding certain bits of information online (from a laptop) and you have to write a summary of your findings and send it to graduate recruitment in an email, who then pass it on the the 2 associates that will interview you.
You then get interviewed by the 2 associates who will ask you questions based on the scenario as well as motivation, competency and commercial awareness questions. After this you meet a trainee who will give you a tour of the office and answer any questions you have.
What advice would you give to future applicants for the Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholar interview?
You will be given around 30 minutes to prepare your answers for the scenario and the interview itself lasts for around 45 minutes. The trainee tour and questions will take around 20 minutes.
The interview is quite hard as they really stretch your commercial awareness. It would be useful to research the firm’s practice areas and sectors before the interview. You can’t really prepare for the problem scenario as they base it on a topic they know you won’t have come across before. Just make sure you manage your time will and focus on the key bits of information that you find online. Make sure you have questions to ask the interviewers at the end and try to come across and friendly and confident.
