Episode #18: Leveraging your Life Experiences to Secure a Training Contract
Update: 2019-10-18
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Our guest in this episode is Liz Barrett, a future trainee at Mishcon de Reya.
In this episode, you’ll hear how Liz still had the conviction to pursue commercial law, despite coming to university as a mature student with only a handful of GCSEs, and having spent over a decade battling with illness.
She explains the importance of valuing your worth and how life experiences can be used in applications and interviews to stand out. Liz also explains how she presented her mitigating circumstances to firms and stayed true to herself in her application forms.
If you want to hear more from Liz, check out her blog: https://silksandthecity.wordpress.com/ where she shares plenty of actionable advice on all aspects of the training contract process.
This episode is hosted by: Jaysen Sutton.
The music in this episode is created by: Ichabod Todd.
ichabod-todd.weebly.com/
In this episode, you’ll hear how Liz still had the conviction to pursue commercial law, despite coming to university as a mature student with only a handful of GCSEs, and having spent over a decade battling with illness.
She explains the importance of valuing your worth and how life experiences can be used in applications and interviews to stand out. Liz also explains how she presented her mitigating circumstances to firms and stayed true to herself in her application forms.
If you want to hear more from Liz, check out her blog: https://silksandthecity.wordpress.com/ where she shares plenty of actionable advice on all aspects of the training contract process.
This episode is hosted by: Jaysen Sutton.
The music in this episode is created by: Ichabod Todd.
ichabod-todd.weebly.com/
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