THANK YOU!!!!!see, your positive thinking does pay off <333 I'd say make sure you have an understanding of law firms as businesses, how do they retain clients, also what tasks trainees do and their role, GOOD LUCK
Do you have any advice for how you improved with the case studies?Anyway, this is so frustrating guys. My weakness in ACs has always been the case studies - feedback consistently highlights my strengths in motivation, competencies, and written tasks, but I falter when it comes to case study interviews.
Today, though, was a significant improvement with Hogan Lovells - it was the best I've ever performed in a case study interview, and I felt really proud of my progress. It wasn't flawless, but it was a huge step forward compared to my past attempts.
However, what’s frustrating is that I feel like I bombed the situational interview. 😭😭 I don't believe I answered the questions incorrectly (I did offer to assist a struggling trainee and so on), but I think my responses lacked structure and were a bit disjointed. I'm just venting about a tough moment - wishing I could do better. Sorry for the personal meltdown.
But when I finally make progress in one direction, I feel like I struggle in another.. like I finally mastered competencies and never had a situational interview until this one so I didn’t have that kind of practice. 😳
HOPE THEY LIKED ME
Hi Jess, thank you so much for this! I’ll reach out and see what they say. Hopefully, it all works out!Hi there - yes, you can definitely ask this and there is no harm in doing so. Just be prepared for them to say no and basically bat it back to you and state that it will be with you to decide whether you proceed with your VI and potentially renege on your existing Spring offer, or withdraw from the recruitment process. They might be able to transfer you across to a direct TC, but some firms will just tell you to reapply at the appropriate time if that is what you want to do.
im scared toohaven't heard back from HL SVS post-WG...is it a pfo since they've already had some ACs 😭
I think that is fine. Sometimes these things don’t happen very often (eg leading supermarket mergers don’t happen every year), and so as long as you are linking it to your interests and making the matter unique because of that, you should be fine where it’s less than 18-24 months.is a case from late 2022 into early 2023 too late too old to speak about when asked “Give us an example of a deal we worked on that interested you?”
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I usually summarise my points and am like ‘I deal with this situation using communication, adaptability, and collaboration. An example of when I’ve shown this is…”When answering strength-based questions like "How would deal with an X situation", do you guys jump straight to your example or outline your general approach first then provide a specific example?
Yeah this is what I do as well and I did this for my SPB VI as they asked 2 strength Qs and I summarised what I would do then go straight to my exampleI usually summarise my points and am like ‘I deal with this situation using communication, adaptability, and collaboration. An example of when I’ve shown this is…”
lmfao I love this forum
this is how I feel rn
stay strong guys :’)
I would avoid just jumping into examples - this isn't really what strengths based assessments are about. They want you to be forward looking rather than rely on past evidence.When answering strength-based questions like "How would deal with an X situation", do you guys jump straight to your example or outline your general approach first then provide a specific example?
I'm screamiiiing 😆 literally me
this is how I feel rn
stay strong guys :’)