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The text below provides a full candidate recruitment, assessment and preparation guide and practice for those applying to jobs, internships and graduate programs at Linklaters.

If you are aiming to apply to Linklaters or have a Linklaters assessment test coming up, our text below is the best place to start.

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In a nutshell:

How to prepare for the Linklaters assessment process and tests to get the job?

  1. Complete your Linklaters Online Application
  1. Practice for Linklaters Critical Thinking Test
  1. Record mock video interviews of yourself

Prepare for your two interviews with HR and with lawyers from the practice by running mock interviews answering typical law interview questions. For Linklaters interview practice, use:

Use the STAR method for your answers and practice each answer several times.

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If you decide to apply to Linklaters, you can practice online aptitude tests with us to improve your results and get scores above their threshold.

1. Online Application

Complete the online application provided on the recruitment page.

2. Critical Thinking Test

This critical thinking test is specifically designed to assess critical and logical thinking skills in the form of a Watson Glaser Test. More specifically, the Watson Glaser test measures abilities in:

  • Drawing inferences
  • Recognising assumptions
  • Argument evaluation
  • Deductive reasoning
  • Logical interpretation

3. Interviews

Before the interviews you will be invited to an online chat session with graduate recruiters and other candidates for a Q&A session.

After this, you will need to attend two interviews. The first interview will be with member of the HR team with a member of the human resources team,  and will be competency-based. Your second interview will be conducted with lawyers from the practice. It will focus on your written exercise, from the previous stage, and will include a discussion centred around commercial awareness. Your performance will be measured against a list of traits (see below) which Linklaters expect from a successful lawyer.

  • Teamwork
  • Communication
  • Motivation
  • Time management
  • Commercial thinking

You should receive a response, regarding the outcome of your application, shortly after the interviews.

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