Recruitment Process

The Skills You'll Need

Eligibility

Trainee Places On Offer 2012

Application Stage

Assessment Centre

Offers

Reasonable Adjustments

2012 Timetable

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Assessment Centre

If you are successful in the application stage, you will be invited to attend an Assessment Centre. The Assessment Centre takes half a day and will be held in London (usually over a five day period in September).

At the Assessment Centre, you will be assessed against the core competencies in two exercises – a written exercise and a competency based interview.

1. Written Exercise

The written exercise will present a legal scenario and you will be assessed on the key competencies of analytical ability, constructive and innovative thinking, judgement and written communication. This is not a test of legal knowledge and you will not be given credit for any evidence of legal knowledge beyond the information included in the supporting material provided. You will be given 55 minutes to complete this exercise.

2. Competency Based Interview

You will be interviewed by two senior GLS lawyers. You can expect to be asked by one of the Panel to spend 5 minutes presenting on a public law-related topic. You can expect questioning on your topic to last for around 10 minutes.

Following on from this, you will be asked a selection of competency-based questions by members of the Panel.

You should expect your Technical Interview to last for 70 minutes.