Most candidates never see what happens after they leave the room. The scoring, the conversations, the reasons one strong candidate gets an offer and another doesn’t. Join us for a session with Mark Dubes, a former legal graduate recruiter with over 20 years' experience who has interviewed more than 10,000 candidates, including at Mayer Brown. Mark will walk through the full decision-making process from the recruiter's side, including how applications are reviewed, how assessment centre performance is scored, what happens in debrief meetings, and how final offers are actually made.

Many candidates either skip experiences that don't feel legal enough or apologise for them without realising it. Join us for a session with Mark Dubes, a former legal graduate recruiter with over 20 years' experience who has interviewed more than 10,000 candidates, including at Mayer Brown. Mark will break down how recruiters actually read the work experience section, what they're looking for beyond job titles, and how to present any experience, including retail, in a way that genuinely strengthens your application. This session will show you how to reframe experiences you've been undervaluing, what strong candidates do differently when their CV doesn't look conventional, and how to turn a perceived weakness into a compelling part of your story.

It's one thing to be told your application needs work. It's another to see exactly why. Join us for a session with Mark Dubes, a former legal graduate recruiter with over 20 years' experience who has interviewed more than 10,000 candidates, including at Mayer Brown. Mark will take a real, anonymised application and break it down live section by section explaining precisely what works and what doesn’t. This session will show you how a recruiter actually reads an application, the specific signals that create a strong or weak impression within seconds, and what changes would have made the difference between rejection and progression.

You have questions about training contract applications. Mark Dubes has spent over 20 years on the other side of the process, interviewing more than 10,000 candidates including at Mayer Brown. This is your chance to ask him anything. Join us for a completely open Q&A session. Whatever you've been wondering about applications, interviews, assessment centres, or how decisions are really made, bring it to this session.