Canadian Lawyer 4Students

Fall 2011

Life skills and career tips for Canada's lawyers in training

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BY JEREMY HAINSWORTH In the evolving landscape of law firm interviews, recruiters are saying it's now more businesslike and less nudge, nudge, wink, wink. interviewing New-style T he current stack of articling applications at Vancouver's Farris Vaughan Wills & Murphy LLP is about 45 centimetres high, says Ludmila Herbst, the fi rm's re- cruiter, who was herself an articling stu- dent at Farris 13 years ago. She says the process for applications, interviews, and off ers is more formalized and more business- oriented than when she went through it. "It's now more strict- ly regimented," she says. "Stricter deadlines for applications, stricter deadlines for interviews. Th e fi rst three days are when interviews take place. You're only allowed to make off ers on a certain day of the week. You're not supposed to be winking at candidates suggesting, 'You're going to get an off er.'" And, she C ANADIAN Lawyer 4STUDENTS F all 2011 7 *

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