It is with great It is with pleasure that @legalaware and @tc_applications announce the first ever “Training Contract Applicant Of The Year Award” for 2011. Modelled on the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Award #SPOTY, the winner will be:

Training Contract Applicant Of The Year

Next year, if there is a sufficient number of entries, prizes will also be awarded for:

Best International Student Entry

Best Legal Education Team

Best Newcomer

Anyone can in fact enter this competition. It’s only for fun – you could be a lawyer, law teacher, law student, legal recruiter, or none of the above.

Unlike most ‘marking matrices’ commonly used by corporate law firm HR specialists, each question will be marked on the following basis:

Spelling and grammar  5

Relevance 5

Humour 10

Interest 10

Each question will be double-marked. All competition entries should be through a valid e-mail address, although entries can be anonymous. If you work for a law firm, you must never give your real name or firm details. Answers should be emailed to correspondence@lasmeetings.org

There is a word limit of 100 words per question. You may decide that you wish to answer in much fewer words. In the event of a tie, a winner will be selected at random.

This year’s questions are as follows.

1. Describe an example of team in which you have taken part. What did you learn from this experience?

2. Describe an example of where you have demonstrated commercial awareness.

It’s important to realise that this is a spoof of online training contract application forms. Therefore the panel is looking for comical examples you’d never put in a real application!

The prize will be the prestigious award at a prestigious awards ceremony at a prestigious hotel in London, sometime in the future. The best answers will be published, with the permission of the contestant, in a blogpost in early 2012.

Deadline: January 3rd 2012.

 

Best of luck!