Raluca

Legal internship with Clyde & Co, HSF, Allen & Overy, Slaughter and May, and Sidley

• Assisted a fictitious partner in addressing a client’s concerns: key parts of an acquisition transaction, due diligence considerations, NDA amendments
• Attended workshops on legal writing, legal research, anatomy of a deal and suchlike

• Co-led client interviews with a partner, taking notes and asking questions in turn, including a virtual interview
• Conducted research on Lexis PSL on a range of legal areas
• Drafted advisory letters within 14 days and posted them to the clients
• Researched insurance law despite not being within the centre’s practice areas to better understand the client’s situation and analyse eligibility for free advice
• Enhanced my appreciation for equality, confidentiality, and data protection

• Prepared legal documents and developed excellent interpersonal skills through dealing with clients often in a state of anxiety
• Developed the ability to work well under pressure by reaching court deadlines
• Demonstrated attention to detail and initiative by examining client complaints and finding a duplicate cases issue, saving the firm 300 hours of futile work
• Showed efficiency by finishing my tasks quickly and correctly
• Helped some of my colleagues with their tasks to speed up the process
• Learned quickly how to us the client management system

• Successfully secured a place in a 3-day First Year Insight Programme at DLA Piper's London office
• Enhanced my confidence as I networked with partners, associates and trainees
• Held a presentation in front of two firm partners
• Developed my commercial awareness through researching for a group presentation on the energy and resources sector of the firm, where I discussed the opportunities rising with the development of green energy.

• Took people's inquiries over the phone
• Dealt with vulnerable clients and/or clients with sensitive issues
• Completed reports for each inquiry
• Undertook administratrive tasks such as printing and copying, keeping a record of calls and voicemails.

• Managing the pension scheme montlhy for the family business
• Assessing pension contributions of up to 5 employees
• Enrolling and re-enrolling employees into the scheme
• Ensuring that necessary information about the scheme is delivered to the employees

Business, Operations and Marketing internship with Google, M&S, P&G and GSK

• Delivered a presentation with recommendations for service expansion: comparison between different locations, rationale for the chosen location, marketing plan within a budget, next steps
• Attended workshops on competitor analysis, supply chain management, retail, marketing and suchlike

• Relaunched the University of Manchester Students' Union Living at Home (LAH) Programme, supporting 4,000 underrepresented students
• Started a monthly newsletter and managed social media platforms
• Implemented a new strategy based on understanding the targeted group's characteristics and needs
• Organised and marketed 4 themed events, improving attendance rates by 35%
• Represented students in meetings and raised awareness of the prevailing issues
• Evaluated existent support and offered recommendations in 3 official reports for the Unoversity
• Collaborated with Diversity and Inclusion Ambassadors for BAME students

• Administrative duties, including recording service usage and filing documents
• Triaged clients for drop-in sessions, being their first point of contact
• Prepared clients for appointments by getting the relevant documents signed
• Suggested a change in the service recording process, improving stats accuracy

• Volunteered as a mentor as part of the Urban Lawyers North mentoring scheme, on which I have insisted on being put in place by contacting the society several times to show my interest and informing them of other people's interest
• Gave general advice regarding studying law, but more specifically, mentoring students in relation to their law career based on my own experiences
• For example, I encouraged first-year students to get involved as much as they can and explaining the benefits.

• Managed the organisation's job website by using a content management system to triage and post job advertisements
• Checked job advertisements to ensure they comply with the websites requirements
• Researched the employers' websites for more information
• Managed YLAL's emails, replying to every employer wanting to post jobs on YLAL's website
• This was an opportunity to help with their great cause, campaigning for justice. For example, a new campaign YLAL is focusing on is the LIVING WAGE CAMPAIGN, after their recent Social Mobility report demonstrated that many legal aid lawyers are paid less than the real living wage.

• Worked as a sales assistant in an airport
• Adapted my communication style to engage with people from different backgrounds
• Developed strong sales skills through upselling products and calculating personalised deals to maximise profits and own commission
• Won first place in the two-weeks ‘Top Salesperson’ competition quarterly
• Collaborated with the manager to upsell £4,000 and increased in-store sales by 200% in a month
• Responsible for 2 trainees, encouraging them and handling security matters

• Promoted a popular brand of cereals, Dorset
• Collaborated with my team to organise breakfast for a big number of people in the context of a children festivalrounding us
• Responsible with customer service by answering questions and making sure that everyone had what they needed and felt welcomed so that they will buy the products we promoted
• Improved my organisational skills as I came up with a system that made organisation much easier. I put on each table the same set of differently-flavoured cereals which made it easier to spot what cereal boxes are empty and count the products used, and enhanced our aim of promoting the product as it offered people a wide range to choose from
• Took charge when the team encountered an issue with the dairy supply by distributing amongst my colleagues and reassuring the attendees