Rosie Watterson runs the increasingly popular UK based law recruitment and advisory blog for young lawyers seeking training jobs.

But it also goes a lot further than just training jobs in the law - Rosie explains some recruitment tips and views on how the law is changing with artificial intelligence, new recruitment techniques, interview tactics and much more.

She has been featured in the legal media on several occasions and one of her techniques is to use the "Star" technique on how to best use your experiences to garner a great job.

The Star Technique is a mnenomic for the following:

Situation: this is you saying what the job was, where you did it and for how many hours a week.

Task: you need to describe a project you were given, or a problem that arose. Try to make it one specific example, rather than listing your general duties.

Action: what did you actually do? People struggle with this section. A common pitfall is saying ‘we did this.’ Even if you are a part of a team, you need to talk about what you did specifically. Also, people often say ‘I contributed to.’ How did you contribute? What did you actually do, and how did you do it to ensure success? And don’t forget about the planning process, or the measures you took to prevent a negative outcome.

Result: what did your actions achieve? Try to give specific, measurable results. And see if you can draw out the commercial element. So think in terms of profit, savings, promotion and marketing, brand reputation and customer loyalty.

It is absolutely fine to shuffle the STAR order around, or have a number of tasks and a number of results. But try to ensure you have addressed all the elements. And Dan Reed (head of Digital Capabilities at Barclaycard) even suggests adding ‘D’ on the end, for ‘differently.’ What would you do differently next time? I think this is a great idea.

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