Hong Kong - Allen & Overy

Summer vacation placement scheme
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The selection process
Our 4-week summer vacation placement scheme is aimed
at penultimate or final year law undergraduates or final year
non-law undergraduates. There are two placement periods,
June and July and there are a total of 20-24 places available.
The summer vacation placement scheme takes place on
the following dates:
• 4 weeks in June (for 2013: approximately 03 – 28 June 2013,
for 2014: approximately 03 – 27 June 2014)
• 4 weeks in July (for 2013: approximately 02 – 26 July 2013,
for 2014: approximately 30 June – 25 July 2014)
Applications must be made online at
www.allenovery.com/careers
If your initial application is successful you will be invited to
attend a case-study interview with our graduate recruitment
partner and manager in either HK, London, UK or Australia
(Melbourne or Sydney).
You can apply for our summer vacation placement scheme
between mid-September and March. Please check our website
for closing dates and be aware that there are different deadlines
for Hong Kong, Australia and UK-based students – and different
timetables for the case-study interviews.
www.allenovery.com/careers
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The training contract
Your training
Spanning 24 months, your training contract will be divided
into four or five rotations or ‘seats’ in our core practice areas
– banking, corporate, international capital markets and/or
litigation. During your contract, you will spend six months in
our London office on an overseas secondment. This
secondment will usually be your penultimate or final seat.
On each seat you will sit with a partner or associate and
actively contribute to the day-to-day work of that department
– working on transactions and cases, taking real responsibility
and gaining plenty of client exposure. As your experience
grows and knowledge builds we anticipate that your level of
responsibility will also rise.
At the beginning of each seat, you will attend information
sessions and seminars to help you understand and
contextualise the work of the practice area. In addition
to your seat-based learning, you will also benefit from an
in-house programme of more formal lectures, seminars
and workshops throughout your training contract.
Your development is key and you will receive training and
support in a variety of ways, including mentoring from your
trainer and attending department-specific courses. You will
find that people in every part of the firm will help and support,
while ensuring that you have the appropriate balance between
supervision and being allowed to work independently. Our
focus is to give you everything you need to succeed and
develop a long-term career with Allen & Overy. Our retention
rates on qualification average 91% in Hong Kong.
Associate development
Qualifying as a solicitor, while an important milestone, is
not however the end of your professional development at
Allen & Overy. After qualifying into one of our practice areas,
you will continue to benefit from professional development
through a suite of Business Skills programme 1 and 2. These
have been designed to build the core non-technical skills that
you will need to take your career further and meet the demands
of your evolving associate role. Designed to enhance the core
competencies we value in our professionals, the main elements
of these programmes cover topics such as Managing Yourself,
Managing Others, Connecting with Clients and Managing
your Practice.