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<blockquote data-quote="SkylarCheng" data-source="post: 151356" data-attributes="member: 15457">Question: Some application questions look specific to University students. How can one answer as a career changer?Some context: After I completed the LPC and failed to secure a training contract (a heartbreaking event after attending 7 assessment centres that year), I have been working full-time in Financial Services Regulatory Compliance for just over a year now. I feel ready to tackle the whole training contract application process again, having settled into a relatively calm in-house role. My job prevents me from gaining any vacation scheme experience (due to lack of holidays and having to book them in advance), but I have worked as a paralegal previously.The issue: Now that I return to doing applications, I realise some questions are very specific to University students. A specific one is around &quot;extracurricular activities&quot;, which I used to have many examples for in terms of student societies, but that was at least 3-4 years ago at this point. Taking this specific question as an example, around extracurricular activites, what would graduate recruitment teams consider an &quot;extracurricular activity&quot; for a full-time employee? For example, would business development proposals at work be extracurricular, or would you only accept examples that are strictly outside of working hours?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SkylarCheng, post: 151356, member: 15457"] [I]Question: Some application questions look specific to University students. How can one answer as a career changer?[/I] Some context: After I completed the LPC and failed to secure a training contract (a heartbreaking event after attending 7 assessment centres that year), I have been working full-time in Financial Services Regulatory Compliance for just over a year now. I feel ready to tackle the whole training contract application process again, having settled into a relatively calm in-house role. My job prevents me from gaining any vacation scheme experience (due to lack of holidays and having to book them in advance), but I have worked as a paralegal previously. The issue: Now that I return to doing applications, I realise some questions are very specific to University students. A specific one is around "extracurricular activities", which I used to have many examples for in terms of student societies, but that was at least 3-4 years ago at this point. Taking this specific question as an example, around extracurricular activites, what would graduate recruitment teams consider an "extracurricular activity" for a full-time employee? For example, would business development proposals at work be extracurricular, or would you only accept examples that are strictly outside of working hours? [/QUOTE]

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