@Andrei Radu @Ram Sabaratnam @Jessica Booker
Do you have any advice on how to answer the following?
1. What would be challenging for you as a trainee and how would you overcome that?
2. What are some of the main challenges you faced?
3. Who would be your dream client?
4. If you had a million dollars, what would you invest in right now?
Thank you!
1) Consider your key development areas and tailor the answer to your challenge, explain why that will be challenging for you specifically (rather than trainees generally). However, focus the answer on the solution(s) to that challenge. Think of the resources and environment you will have at that specific firm and try to use the firm’s specific resources for names like supervisors, technology, training etc to show how those factors could support you with that challenge.
2) this is a very personal question so there is not set structure. You really have to self analyse and consider what have been your challenges to date and explain why they are challenges. Try to avoid generic things like completing academic studies as this will be something a lot of people can say.
3) Consider where your interests are or what is important for your career aspirations and identify a client (doesn’t have to be the firm’s current client, can be an company/organisation) that aligns with those aspects. Explain the elements that make them attractive to you - I would just try to ensure there is a connection to the firm too, but if you are focusing on your aspirations, if you are naturally aligned with the firm, there should be a connection to the firm without having to explain it.
4) like question 2, this is a personal question so there is no set structure. Consider how you would invest/spend the money and focus more on your answer explaining your logic of why that spend/investment would be either important to you or why you think you would benefit from that spend/investment.
