Yasmina Kone

Clifford ChanceGraduate Recruitment Specialist

Yasmina Kone is a graduate recruitment specialist at Clifford Chance. She works on innovation projects within the graduate team and designs initiatives that aim to upskill trainees on technology. She has been responsible for designing and managing IGNITE, the first tech focused training contract, and LIFT, a pioneering internship programme which sends future trainees to partnering organisations for skills development opportunities.

Prior to joining Clifford Chance, Yasmina worked at diversity recruitment company Rare. She worked on their multi-award-winning Contextual Recruitment System, the first software of its kind. It has changed the way that graduate recruiters assess talent and levelled the playing field.

Yasmina has also worked as a consultant in the People team at Australian law firm Allens, where she spent a few months advising on their graduate recruitment and diversity and inclusion initiatives.