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<blockquote data-quote="Andrei Radu" data-source="post: 190255" data-attributes="member: 36777">Hi [USER=36525]@molak202[/USER] the short answer I would give you is no. There's two main reasons for that. Firstly, applications for a VS are significantly more competitive than for an open day and as such the standards recruiters hold your answers to will be commensurately higher. What makes for a good enough answer to be admitted to an open day in many cases will not be good enough for progressing past the first stage in a VS application. Secondly, firms like candidates who are looking to constantly improve. This is especially the case if in the meanwhile you have attended an open day and should therefore have many further insights and interactions to mention. Finally, in the unlikely case you do not find many substantive points to add/change or significant improvements to make in your writing style and structure, I still think you should rephrase some parts of your answer. You definitely do not want your VS application to be flag as an identical copy of an open day application, as some recruiters could interpret it as a lack of effort on your part.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Andrei Radu, post: 190255, member: 36777"] Hi [USER=36525]@molak202[/USER] the short answer I would give you is no. There's two main reasons for that. Firstly, applications for a VS are significantly more competitive than for an open day and as such the standards recruiters hold your answers to will be commensurately higher. What makes for a good enough answer to be admitted to an open day in many cases will not be good enough for progressing past the first stage in a VS application. Secondly, firms like candidates who are looking to constantly improve. This is especially the case if in the meanwhile you have attended an open day and should therefore have many further insights and interactions to mention. Finally, in the unlikely case you do not find many substantive points to add/change or significant improvements to make in your writing style and structure, I still think you should rephrase some parts of your answer. You definitely do not want your VS application to be flag as an identical copy of an open day application, as some recruiters could interpret it as a lack of effort on your part. [/QUOTE]

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