Shearman & Sterling Blog

9th April 2019

TRANSCRIPT Hello, and welcome to Whiteboard Wednesday. Today, I’m going to be giving you some tips on how to avoid repeating a law firm’s website in your training contracts applications. Okay, so when I see training contract applications, what I often find is that candidates repeat a lot of the information back that they’ve read […]

26th February 2019

SUMMARY – What To Do If Your Training Contract Applications Are Rejected Hello, and welcome to Whiteboard Wednesday. Today, I’m going to be talking about what you can do if you find your training contract or vacation scheme application is rejected. If you’ve recently applied for training contracts or vacation schemes and your applications have […]

7th February 2019

Studying English? Worried you’re now irreparably unemployable? Have no fear. Studying English gives you a (maybe unexpectedly) broad range of skills that law firms like Shearman & Sterling seriously value. Here are five quick examples to remember next time your “more employable” Law student friend denigrates the value of Shakespeare to your career. 1. Reading, […]

23rd January 2019

Transcript – Breaking Down the Buzzwords Hello and welcome to “Whiteboard Wednesday.” Today, I’m going to be talking about how you can break down some of the buzzwords which law firms use in their promotional material. 1. Global/International Okay. Starting off with probably the most used law firm buzzword which you’ll find in graduate recruitment […]

2nd January 2019

As a history student you are often the butt of the employability jokes. I remember there were lots of memes (people still use memes, right?) when I was at university implying history graduates never got jobs (see below): However the perception that history is not an employable degree is just wrong. Law is a common […]