Elite Careers StrategyWho Gets In?Research by Elite Careers Strategy

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SRC-119: careers.aoshearman.com

Official page published by A&O Shearman, retrieved 13 September 2026 and coded into 2 governed signals.

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Publisher domain
careers.aoshearman.com
Institutions
A&O Shearman
Retrieved
Retrieval method
Official page retrieval
Source grade
A: official primary institutional page
Corpus layer
Append-only canonical supplement (source-evidence-supplement-06-2026-09-13.csv)
Signals supported
2

Scope notes

  • A&O Shearman London training-contract selection architecture and human interviews after digital assessment

LimitA source record shows what the official page said on the retrieval date. Institutions change their pages; the retrieval date is part of the evidence.

Signals coded from this source

SIG-185 Official source A&O Shearman

A&O Shearman's London training-contract page publishes an online application followed by an online experience containing situational judgement, verbal and numerical reasoning and two video motivation questions; successful candidates then attend an assessment day with two one-to-one interviews, including a commercial case-study presentation and a scenario-based interview.

Evidence passage recorded against the sourceOnline application; online experience with SJT, verbal and numerical reasoning and two video motivation questions; assessment day with two one-to-one interviews, including a commercial case study and scenario questions.

London · Training Contract · Training contract selection architecture · Observed 13 September 2026 · Verified 13 Sep 2026 · Source SRC-119 (careers.aoshearman.com) · source record

SIG-186 Official source A&O Shearman

A&O Shearman's London training-contract process explicitly places two one-to-one interviews after the online application and online experience, providing current official evidence of human assessment after digital stages.

Evidence passage recorded against the sourceIf the application is successful, the next stage is an assessment day comprising two one-on-one interviews.

London · Training Contract · Human judgement after digital assessment · Observed 13 September 2026 · Verified 13 Sep 2026 · Source SRC-119 (careers.aoshearman.com) · source record

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Who Gets In? (Elite Careers Strategy), source record SRC-119, retrieved 13 September 2026, https://www.accessecs.com/who-gets-in/sources/SRC-119/

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