“The 17-minute OCI interview is already overwhelming enough for any student, but for racialized students like myself, the process carries additional complexities that go beyond the normal anxieties of job hunting. While I speak primarily from my own experiences about the challenges that I faced, I do feel that these experiences are likely to resonate with others. Through conversations with peers from various racialized backgrounds, I’ve seen themes of bias, code-switching, and the burden of representing diversity repeated across experiences.” ...

Recruitment is one of the most exciting yet challenging experiences a law student faces. To shed light on what large Bay Street firms look for in their candidates and what a summer program at a big firm looks like, I spoke with Stikeman Elliott’s Student Program Director, Rona Ghanbari, and Avery Chisholm, a 3L student in the English Common Law Program who summered at the firm ...