I had mine on the day after my AC but I think I saw someone had theirs on the day of their AC so I’m not sure if there’s a specific pattern!
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Was it purely straightforward strengths based questions or did they sneak in any cheeky commercial awareness/competency based questions?
It was purely strengths-based! They were pretty straightforward questions, there were no commercial questions or anything like that. I think if you pass this interview, you get invited to a partner interview, which is where I suspect that the commercial/competency-based questions come up. Good Luck, it is honestly not that bad!!
Mine was purely straightforward strength based. They snuck in how to manage complex info and how I deal with deal with having many deadlines. Maybe that’s more competency but I didn’t use a law related example when answering the many deadlines questions. My interviewer said she wanted to know me outside law so I should be calm and be myself and I could use any examples I wanted to explain my points. She was really pleasant and we actually spoke more about life than anything law related.
Oooh how did yours go? Mine was okay, both of our connections kept cutting out which was annoying! But overall, it was a really nice interview (I think lol). Do you know when we are expected to hear back by?
I have no idea when to expect to hear back but after my AC on Thursday grad rec said to us all 2-3 weeks because they still had AC’s running this week but I don’t know how reliable that info is! I had mine on Friday last week. It went well tbh. It didn’t feel like an interview. Felt like a normal convo. I will probably email soon to so I can manage my expectations regarding hearing back.
A competency based interview is more situational, I.e. describe a time when you have led a team, or a time when you have resolved conflict.
A strength based interview is more about you and your interests, e.g. what tasks make you feel energetic, what do you enjoy doing in your spare time, greatest achievemement etc.
The only thing i’ve looked at is the virtual work experience programme but i’m not sure what else to do!
There's not much you can do to prepare really! Doing the virtual work experience gives you an idea of what the tasks are going to be like but the ones in the AC are a bit different and you have to complete them in a shorter time frame
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