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Firms braced for flood of applicants in 2010

I just find it laughable that a top 10 law firm thinks that introducing a verbal reasoning screening test to their online application process will weed out anybody. Most people with a reasonably competent grasp of English breeze through such tests, for example, the largely indistinguishable candidates with 2.1's from top universities. There is far too much reliance on penultimate year students. Personally I've had to "drop down the leagues" as it were to gain experience with a small firm which enabled me to talk the talk far better at Training Contract interviews. This ultimately helped me to secure one. I would have been far too arrogant had I switched straight from a top university to a top law firm. Humility and experience plus commitment to the profession exemplified by somebody going somewhere that many would not go, to me, displays a clear distinguishable feature in any applicant.

14-Dec-2009

7:06 pm