10 tips to ace your presentation to your partnership selection panel
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10 tips to ace your presentation to your partnership selection panel

ByHeather Townsend

Part of your firm’s partnership admission process in your journey to make partner will probably involve a presentation of your business case and personal case for partnership to a selection of partners. These partners are typically some of the most influential in the partnership. Nerve-wracking stuff! This blog post will give you ten tips to…

Your definitive guide to creating your presentation for your Big 4 partner panel interview
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Your definitive guide to creating your presentation for your Big 4 partner panel interview

ByHeather Townsend

You may have a solid business case for partnership in your law firm, consulting firm, Big 4, Accounting Firm or Magic Circle firm, but it is how you present it at the partner panel interview which will make or break your chance of actually securing partner. It can be really tempting to include everything in…

How to be on your A-game during your partnership panel interview
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How to be on your A-game during your partnership panel interview

ByHeather Townsend

Most firms will put all of their partner candidates through a gruelling series of interviews to assess whether they are mentally, personally and professionally committed to making partner. This makes them an absolutely essential part of the partnership admissions process. Even if you look good on paper, it is vital that you are on your…

5 common mistakes Big 4 candidates make at the Partner Panel Interview stage
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5 common mistakes Big 4 candidates make at the Partner Panel Interview stage

ByHeather Townsend

Making partner at a Big 4 firm is a massive achievement, one that is very difficult to secure for two reasons: one, the gruelling Partner Panel Interview and two, the mistakes that partner candidates make before and during the interview. The bad news is that the interview is unavoidable. The good news, however, is that…

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How to ace your partner panel – blog post transcript 2 -You don’t need a slide deck in your Partner Panel Interview.

ByHeather Townsend

Some people think they need to use the slide-deck template they’ve been given, I’ve seen that many times where someone is trying to shoehorn a 20-minute presentation, and basically they’re not slides, they’re just a way of getting lots of information onto PowerPoint. When people ask, ‘What should I use’, they then get given a…

How to pinpoint the exact questions you are likely to be asked in your Partner Panel Interview
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How to pinpoint the exact questions you are likely to be asked in your Partner Panel Interview

ByHeather Townsend

The Partner Panel Interview is a feature of the Big 4, Magic Circle and large accountancy, law and consultancy firm’s partnership admissions process. Given that in your Partnership Panel Interview you will be interrogated by a number of partners on the merits or otherwise of your business and personal case, it can be a terrifying…

Prepare successfully for your partner panel interview – 6 tried and tested tips
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Prepare successfully for your partner panel interview – 6 tried and tested tips

ByHeather Townsend

Over the next few months many of the Big 4 firms will be conducting partnership panel interviews for their candidates on partnership track and also partner panel interviews for their senior managers wanting to become directors. Therefore, in this blog post I will share 6 tips for how to prepare for your partnership panel interview…

How to ace your partnership panel interview
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How to ace your partnership panel interview

ByHeather Townsend

Most partner track processes for medium to large-sized firms will include a number of partnership panel interviews. These are where you are interviewed by a number of partners from your firm. Typically in these partnership panel interviews you are required to pitch your business case to the assembled partners. However, sometimes a partnership panel interview…

Tips to present your business case at your partnership panel interview
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Tips to present your business case at your partnership panel interview

ByHeather Townsend

You’ve poured your heart and soul into writing your business case for partnership. Your challenge is now to condense your ‘war and peace’ business case (and we have seen firms which literally require their partnership candidates to submit business cases which are over 50 pages long) into a 10 minute persuasive, engaging and impactful presentation for their…

This is the most important tool you can use to talk about your business case for partnership
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This is the most important tool you can use to talk about your business case for partnership

ByHeather Townsend

Over the last few years we have been advocating using a tool called a one page talk sheet to communicate your business case for partnership. In fact, this tool is probably the most important tool you can use when on partner track (or if you want to get onto partnership track). In this blog post,…

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