Hi guys,
I am applying to
Reed Smith and there is only one question
"Please provide us with any additional information that you would like to share about yourself, including your main activities or interests outside of study or work-life and for example any awards or personal achievements"
I was wondering if you would include also your qualities and skills for example "My entrepreneurial attitude and social activism have been instrumental to create commercial awareness workshops for my BAME colleagues and start working on my music/legal start-up etc.."
Thank you for your help.
Those sound to me like great examples for the question at hand!
Now let's reconsider how you would frame them in your answer to make them as impactful as possible
First of all, what is a music/legal start-up or do you have two start-ups? This needs an explanation as it sounds awesome (especially to me given my own musical background) but I have no idea what it entails at the moment! Your commercial awareness workshops for BAME colleagues also sound excellent, but the reader of your application won't know what exactly you did, what the workshops were about, whether anyone attended etc.
Furthermore, your start-ups and the workshops seem to be completely unrelated topics so I would not try and mention them in the same sentence. You won't be able to anyway once you elaborate on each one to really highlight how you were involved and why they are so impressive.
I know you were just giving an example here and that you will spend ample time polishing your answer before submitting, but having read a range of TCLA members' applications myself as a member of the application review team, I have seen many applications that try to cram too much information into the word count and end up not explaining the relevant points adequately.
I hope that this is a useful insight into how to approach application answers!