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4 tips to help take the stress out of doing verbal and numerical reasoning tests

By Heather Townsend / Blog, Final steps, Job Hunting / 3 minutes of reading

One element of the partnership admissions process, particularly if you are a lateral candidate, is verbal and numerical reasoning tests. These are normally nothing to be feared. If you haven’t done any verbal or numerical reasoning tests for a fair few years, these can become a very stressful part of the whole partnership admissions process. …

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Why my coming 292nd out of 330 will help you make partner

By Heather Townsend / Advancing Your Career, Blog, Career planning, purpose / 5 minutes of reading

My face was bright red, I was sweating from every single part of me… but I was smiling and ecstatically happy. My husband was by my side. There was of course, some fairly tight and revealing clothing being worn… … but you would expect that as I was at the finish line of The Marston …

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Inheriting a new team – how to decide which team members to keep?

By Heather Townsend / Blog, Building your team, Managing others / 5 minutes of reading

When you get made up to partner, either through a promotion or a lateral move, it is not uncommon to inherit a new team, or a dysfunctional group of people who happen – more because of a HR structure chart – to belong to the same team. Your long term success as partner is driven …

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5 savvy tips to get time to think even in the middle of a client crisis

By Heather Townsend / Blog, conflict resolution, Managing yourself, Personal efficiency, Personal Impact / 3 minutes of reading

When you work within the professions and have to record every six minutes, thinking space can be a bit of a luxury. However, time to think isn’t a luxury you can’t afford, it is an absolute necessity to be able to perform and make the right decisions. Here are our 5 tips to get your …

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Is the curse of professionalism limiting your career progression?

By Heather Townsend / Blog, Branding Yourself, Building your client portfolio, Developing Your Brand / 5 minutes of reading

A few months ago I was helping a group of consultants put together their personal marketing kit. Despite most of the consultants handling client portfolios worth over £1 million, they almost all suffered with the curse of professionalism, which was stopping them taking the next step in their career. In this blog post I identify …

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5 clever ways to get your mentor and sponsoring partner to help you to make partner

By Heather Townsend / Blog, business case for partnership, Final steps / 3 minutes of reading

5 tips to make partner Your mentor and/or sponsoring partner can literally make or break your transition from senior associate/director through to making partner. Based on our recent experiences of helping our client successfully get appointed to a partnership position in a top 6 firm in the UK, here are 5 tips your sponsoring partner and/or …

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5 tips from a new partner to pass the competency based interview

By Heather Townsend / Blog, Final steps / 3 minutes of reading

It is always good to hear when one of our clients gets the partner role they wanted. It is even better when they give us detailed feedback about the process they went through, plus their tips to help others make it through! Following on from this post, here are 5 tips from one of our …

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Your guide to demystifying competency based interviews within the partnership admissions process

By Heather Townsend / Blog, Final steps / 4 minutes of reading

It is always good to hear when one of our clients gets the partner role they wanted. It is even better when they give us detailed feedback about the process they went through, plus their tips to help others make it through! This post is the first part of a 2 part series, based on …

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5 ways of increasing your odds of making it through partnership track

By Heather Townsend / Blog, business case for partnership, Final steps / 4 minutes of reading

Being told you are on partnership track, or in line for partnership, or going to be put up for partnership is a great sign that you are nearing the end of your journey to make partner. This post explores what you can do in the 12-24 months before the admission process starts to help you …

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What are your partners really thinking when they consider your application for partnership?

By Heather Townsend / Blog, Final steps / 3 minutes of reading

Probably the biggest mistake that any potential partner makes is to consider the partnership admission process as a long drawn out job interview or panel for promotion. This article shines a light onto what the partnership admissions process actually is trying to achieve, and therefore, what the partners involved in the partnership admissions process will …

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