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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Abstruser" data-source="post: 5516" data-attributes="member: 260">Hey there,I attended Ashurst's open evening a few weeks ago, and the pointers I picked up from HR and Nick Wong (the graduate recruitment partner) were:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The cover letter is largely focused on you, and the main thing they look for in the cover letter is evidence that you meet their key competencies. You can find these on their website. Nick Wong specifically mentioned that if you provide clear examples of you meeting each of their competencies, then you essentially tick off all the boxes, and it would hard for them not to progress you (assuming everything else on the app is fine). There was a student on their winter VS who said he followed this approach (and was evidently successful).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">They also look for evidence that you can relate your motivations and experiences back to the firm, though there is a separate section on 'Why Ashurst' specifically so you don't have to go on about this in extenso in the cover letter.</li> </ul>Like many above have suggested, I also followed the tried and tested formula of 'why law, why Ashurst, why me', and was successful at application stage. However, about half of the cover letter was on 'why me', and I expanded on 'why Ashurst' in the second written question.Hope that helps!EDIT: I just realised the original post was about a month ago. Sorry for the late response. I hope this helps anyone else still applying to Ashurst, or thinking about it x</blockquote>

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